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... NATURE NOTES. BIRDS RNO POISON BERRIES. A correspondent in Nature discusses the rather interesting question why birds are not killed by stating poisonous fruit. According to our authority, it is held by some that hints eat only the surrounding pulp ...
... NATURE NOTES. COVER FOR RABBITS. U it is intended to run wild rabbits upon the ground in any quantity it is advisable to see that there is plenty of cover for them; that is, if they art to provide sport with dog and gun during the shooting sesson. When ...
... elephant, 'apposed standing on his bind ley and groping upwards with his trunk. DISEASE IN BEECHES. A correspondent writes to Nature Notes am glad Dot to share in the fear recently mentioned in the Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society,' and quoted by Mr ...
... claims Is the largest ever midden the 5000 deaths the Rook , te ar made in this country. Over two tons of milk were used. NATURE NOTE& WANT WILDFOWL. Wildfowl are reported to be numerous along taw Kama, Kedah, Norfolk. and Suffolk coasts, le►ere excellent ...
... NATURE NOTES. A PROLIFIC SNAKE. When returning from visiting his patients the other day, Dr. MacDonald, of Monthlies (Rout Africa), sew a puff adder—one of the most deadly of saakes—and limitedly shot it. He took the body to the hospital verandah, and ...
... same rules of distribution as white, and it is well known to phvsiologista that they surmount fat tracts under the skin. NATURE NOTES. YORKSHIRE GEOLOGY. To geologists the Yorkshire coast probably more charms and offers more opportunities for research than ...
... NATURE NOTES. FEBRUARY WEATHER. Personal impressions hardly seam to tally with etatietica when we nod that February is a corn. partitively month, with a rain mean little more than I !in. When we remember, howmer, that the so-exiled rain often falls in ...
... NATURE NOTES. RESTOCKING BUTTERFLIES. According to the County Gentleman,* •'planting lost insects in old homes is rather a fascinating pursuit. The latest attempt of the kind is the re-introduction of the May fly on the lower waters of the Colne, near ...
... NATURE NOTES. COWARD MARKO. The oowartnes of sharks is well-kuown among wbo have been to in waters. The Sanest shark will getout of the way of a misname if tbe latter site up • wiry splashing. Among the South Sea Islands (says. - Science Siftings) the ...
... NATURE NOTES. A HARVEST OF EELS. Over four tons of eels have bees dispatched .from Thorpe, in the Fens, within the tau iew days, to London. They were caught as a result of a trench being cut from an overful mere to the ma in order to set free the flood ...
... the open. VRDS AT HIGHGATE. The following note, contributed by Mr. Charles S. Parsons, of Southwood-lane, Ilighgate, to Nature Notes, will interest lovers of rds: Ou Sunday morning last I bad the pleasure of arcing a spotted woodpecker in my garden. ...
... children, and their singing is a ►hrill monotone. THE LISRtTRN STANDARD -SATURDAY. MARCH 19, 1904. ANGLING IN CUMBERLAND: NATURE NOTES. INSECTS AND FLOWERS. Mast people would accept it as an axiom that the colour of flowers was designed to Wind insect*. ...