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... NATURE NOTES. This week I have had the following interesting letter from a lady reader who lives at the Hall Farm, Morland: I always read your notes •in the Herald with enjoyment, and 1 would like you to give me some information on the following mysterious ...
... NATURE NOTES. WHIN TRi L071817.R MOULTS. Below is a sketch of a lobster's claw. which explains how the lobster, wishing to shed its shell, withdraws the fleshy part of the big claw through the narrow opening at the base of the limb. In this sketch the ...
... NATURE NOTES THE ABBOTBSURY SWANS. There are more than a thousand swans at Abbotabury, living • perfectly natural life, and none of them pinioned. The result is (says the County Gentleman ) that the visitor sees, what it is not possible to see on the ...
... NATURE NOTES. NILES OF STARFIBH. What is locally known as a beach kermess, has just taken place on the Belgian coast between Ostend and Illankenberghe. it takes the form of a vast deposit of starfish, thrown up by the sea in such numbers that they cover ...
... NATURE NOTES. BEARS THAT MAKE ROADS. The best road-maker in Alaska, according to an Alaskan guide of many years' experience, is the brown bear. Not only are the banks of the streams trodden into good trails by these great animals, but the swampy places ...
... NATURE NOTES. TO ATTRACT BEES. If you want the beet to visit your geneu—andl if you know anything of plant life, you will be 'aware that they are a aecresity—invite them by having plants which bear blue blossoms. According to Lord Avebury, they manifest ...
... NATURE NOTES. A REMARKABLE CATCH. It is the custom of fishermen ea sane part our coasts to lay long lines of baited hooks along the water's edge at low tide for the purpose of catching the fish that come inshore to feed with the flood. A couple of years ...
... NATURE NOTES. If there be any truth in the old proverb Many haws, many snows, sic are assuredly in for an old-fashioned winter. Thrushes and blackbirds are having a glorious tines among the hedgerows iust now, and by and by the squirrels from the n ...
... Nature Notes. The large ntimher of redshanks that have horn in the Peatuith dutriat donna the Wt. fon 'reeks hr attrarteri . And del of attention from wialerits of toed too. It is only during the last few years that these birds have begun to neat in our ...
... Nature Notes. On Saturday I lied god fortune to come arms • red-bucked alinke, or butcher bird. This migrant ass sitting alone on a therm hedge, and seemed to me to be watching something the ground beneath. I got very near before it lA* tar and hew further ...
... NATURE NOTES. It is not often it falls to my lot to record the birth of twins, and more particularly twin chickens, which is a unique circumstance in my eKperienc+•. Mr. Isaac Stephenson, Newbiggin (nacre). tells nie he procured n setting of eggs from ...