... BITS'FOR BOYS AND GIRLS. JACKDAWS TAMED BY JACKDAWS, “ A curious thing, which may interest some of the readers of Nature Notes (writes G. C. Green in the paper named) hajpened with regard to s pair of {;ckduu which we had here about 20 years l'fi e had ...

... kingfisher was last seen sporting over the sparkling trout streams which abound in Carnarvonshire, writes Mr, A. T, Johneon in Nature Notes, and the dipper only remains to lnnind un:lu of :lh‘?t lancing flight, those us plumes, ghtly :;otion-‘ wgich eh.ub‘zfi: ...

... in moving he walks or runs rather than crawls. A naturalist, however, finds even the natterjack interesting, Writing in Nature Notes Mr. J. A. Eisde!l says: * Over 15 years ago, I and other members of our country local * Science Gossip Society ' found ...

... Pthehus with the measles; the medical bulletin will now read. Measles, with mumps supervening. Tun current number of Nature Notes contains a reference to the gopher of Florida, a specimen of which was brought to this country last summer by Mr. W. ...

... GILBERT WHITE IN SUSSEX. In this month's number of Nature Notes, the g journal ,s of the Se'borne Society, Mr. W. Heneage has an interesting article under this head. He says that readers of Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne are, of course ...

... NATURE NOTES. A fine specimen of the aloe tree is now (observes the Daily Graphic) in full bloom in Miss Gibson's garden, Hill House, Saffron Walden. Recently a fisherman killed on the Norfolk coast a specimen of the rare yellow Siberian warbler (Phylloscopus ...

... it much harder to say “not at home,” or “call again,” to a lady than to one of their own sex. Thi:fi?e authorities have naturally noted, and we need not be surprised if we find the business of rate-collecting entrusted almost entirely to persuasive maids ...

... winter he finds that he is suffering from his old affection of the throat, he will no doubt decide to do so. AccornixG to Nature Notes, the monthly organ of the Selborne Society, there can no longer be any doubt that birds are addicted to the dance. The ...

... nitrobenzine to the petrolenm. Carbide so treated gives off acetylene quite regularly under the action of water. Mz, Monegy. in Nature Notes, calls attention to tha great destruction of monkeys on the Gold Coast for the'r skins. Some 200,000, valued at £30,000 ...

... Astwood Bank, Worcestershire, is in the habit of providing some curious homes for the birds in his neighbourhood. He tells in Nature Notes that last spring he accommodated three gb\in of robine with ordinary empty tomato tins to uild in, which he placed in various ...

... A PLUCKY BLACKBIRD, Writing to Nature Notes, Y. A. Pitts relates that one morning in the spring there was a great disturbance among the birds innt.she garden. “The window looks out on to a thick ivy hedge that forms a very Eopnhr nesting-place for the ...

... THE SHOOTING OF RARE BIRDS, Mr. J. Collinson writes from the Humanitarian League offices in London: *A correspondent of Nature Notes records in the current numg:r the fact that a honey buzzard has l.ul{, been shot near Market Weston, Thetford ; elsewhere ...