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NATURE ¦ NOTE'S

... NATURE ¦ NOTE'S si « c r r \ ' ] ; . . BD 3 DS ON THE WESTERN ^ FHONT .. ' Never has the indifference of birds to war con . diti gns been more full y exemplified than by the behaviour of the partridges that throng the country around ire , r Thoy are ...

Published: Saturday 20 April 1918
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1909 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

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... NATURE ' NOTES / nrE'coMEir It -would bo interesting to know how , or when , tho comet comos by its unenviable repnta , tio n , Iiigh * ly or wrongly , it i lookc ...

Published: Saturday 07 May 1921
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2127 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

NATURE NOTES

... NATURE NOTES WILDFOWL IN THE FIBTH OF FOBTH . OOKSIDEBAElE numbers of oyster-catchers are ami in ovidencr f during the early mornings flighting ia north-westerly direction . These are comDosed o ) flocks numbering from a few birds to -as man ? ae thirty ...

Published: Saturday 21 August 1920
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1845 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

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... NATURE- NOTES , ^ ' : THE MOLE-CATCHER . ' • ' . SraiNG is the mole-catcher ' s harvest ; and . while the pursuit of . the little gentleman in the velvet coat is scarcely the sport of Winga , yet tho king himseif is served of the field ; arid mole- ...

Published: Saturday 23 April 1921
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2005 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

NATURE NOTES

... NATURE NOTES A HYRAX AT THE ZOO . Therk arrived at the Zoological Park this * a little animal of an interest far greater than ' ...

Published: Saturday 23 July 1921
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2088 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

NATURE NOTES

... NATURE NOTES NEW BISON * AT THE ZOO , A pair of American bison 2 TE- among ^ latest arrivals at Corstorphine . They wer ; both bred in the Dublin Zoological Garden , thr » parents being a pair -of pure-bred bison thai came from Canada In 1913 . They are ...

Published: Saturday 19 March 1921
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1962 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

NATURE NOTES

... NATURE NOTES A' DREW DAY OK AUTUMNAL COLODR . . There aro days that stand out from . Iho mats like mounts of transfiguration . ' Thoy come'chiefly in Spring and Autumn . In late October I walked in tho valley of tltb Clyde . A previous golden mist filled ...

Published: Saturday 01 November 1919
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1866 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

NATURE NOTES

... NATURE NOTES MOSQUITOES IN SCOTLAND . As I havo been absent from the United Kingdom for soveral years I cannot , ae a matter of personal observation , say what tho average prevalence 0 ! mosquitoes in an- ordinary summer is . Seven years ago , however ...

Published: Saturday 18 November 1916
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1960 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

NATURE NOTES

... NATURE NOTES . . - THE BLDB-JANNETS' NEST . Theocghoot the winter ! spied the hedgo-aeecntoi often about tho garden . Solitary and absorbed their quest -was ; for the microscopic chrysalides on iho ...

Published: Saturday 03 May 1919
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1983 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

NATURE NOTES

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Published: Saturday 05 January 1918
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2032 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

NATURE ' NOTES

... NATURE ' NOTES HOW GROUSE STAY BE REARED . Last year a young keeper friend of mine got a clutch of grouse eggs from a stalker a hundred miles distant . ' .. They were lifted early in the morning , and seven hours intervened before they arrived at ...

Published: Saturday 30 October 1915
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2072 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

NATURE NOTES

... NATURE NOTES , TBE GBOWTH OP SALMON . The marking of young salmon as they pass down our rivers to the sea as smolt has been carried on for several years , not only in Scottish , but also in English waters . A silver wire is passed through ihe base of-the ...

Published: Saturday 22 August 1914
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1939 | Page: 6 | Tags: none