... NATURE NOTES. this week Dr. Sprott, Appleby, writes me as follows: I was much interested in reading your notes which appeared in last week's 'Herald,' quoting the communication from your Glenridding correspondent about locks of birth: observed feeding ...

... NATURE NOTES. This week I have to record the departure rem Penrith of the swifts, or derdins, herb hare fur the past three months been tar wrleome guests. There are few aigrants that do more. good in the wort I. malt. I.a noise about it, than live le‘ilins ...

... NATURE: NOTES. This week an observer, Mr. Hodgson Harrison. writing to ate from the Barnard Castle district, guys: As I always read your notes with pleasure in the Herald every week, I thought it would be of interest to you to knon that as I was out ...

... 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. According to promise I will give a few details anent those two harbingers of summer whose timely arrivals were recorded in the Herald on Saturday last. The cuckoo was both heard and seen near the railway bridge not far from Milestone House ...

... 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 ...

... NATURE NOTES. Among the many signs of the season that are to be seen in the country just now none is more pleasing to lovers of birds than the large flocks of lapwings that are following the meadows and pasture fields in search of grubs. In the early ...

... NATURE NOTES. It is always with tis•lings akin to regret that I begin to chronicle the departure of our summer birds. As a rule, the cuckoo is the first of our migrants to chant its farewell lay, but the exact time it leaves our shores is not easy to ...

... NATURE NOTES. The month of March, although it opened well, was not long in showing its proverbial temper. Sunday and Monday were two very ungracious days--days of bitter cold winds and driving mows. Oar feathered songsters have again been silenced, and ...

... NATURE NOTES. This week I have received an interesting letter from Private G. Simm, who is at present in ramp near Mansfield. Notts. This soldier tells me that swallow s are still very numerous in that county, and there are a few pairs still nesting. ...

... NATURE NOTES. This week I have received the following letter from one of our soldiers who is now serving his King and country in Flanders: Sir,—Always being a reader of your Nature Notes in the 'Herald,' which reaches me here every week, I thought a few ...

... NATURE NOTES. The month of May up to the present has been very favourable for the seeding. Si far as corn sowing is concerned the crops are all safe in • dry bed awaiting the grand transformation scene, when the'' sparkling blades of grain will glisten ...