... will give him full particulars. ‘The cost of membership is very small, and entitles the member to our monthiy magazine, Nature Notes.—Yours, &e¢., W. B. Gerisu, 15, Thorburn-square, S.E. Sir,—Your correspondent, Jesmond Dene, bas struck the right key in ...

... exteact, which 1 trust may be scceptable to m!{r“ your veaders ‘— “ A Robin Attachmens.—-Mr, P. Lewis, of Hereford, wrote to Nature Notes thal a robin Lad forined s remarkable atischiaent 1o tvo sisters, named Jones, of Pyle. 1t accompanied them, especially ...

... him with the remark, * This is ‘o place to smile.” ¢ Have birds a sense of humour ?” asks Mr, C. Nelson, of Dunbar, in Nature Notes. * From my ‘own experience of them and from observation,” he ‘adds, * I have not the smallest doubt they have. Our present ...

... subject will cease after the results of the present operations become known. A paragraph from a country paper, reproduced in Nature Notes, explains how 1t is that our rarer birds are fast approaching extinction. In one neighbourhood there have been lately shot ...

... and consecrated to tE:: enjoyment of future generations what‘evvr of best and loveliest Nature has given these islands. Nature Notes as & pertinent remark on the subject ;— “It is gravely to be regretted that the conditions of civil life put it iata the ...

... Never take a cage with a sheet metal or wooden roof, and eschew al! painting and gilding. The rches (says & writer in Nature Notes) should E: square with the corners bevelled off, and an inch and a-half in circamference ; the slender round perches in ...

... carefully ohserved, the pumber aod marking of the eggs noted, there is wore resl pleastre (says Mr. F. W. Ashley, writing 1 Nature Notes) in leaving everything a 8 you | found it, and listening to the happy chirrupiog of the little owners as you retire, than ...

... teresting wild flowers, especially on sandy sea shores, which are becoming eo extensively utilised for links. A writer in Nature's Notes says thata recent visit to St. Helen's Spit, at the east end of the Isle of Wight, well known as a habitat of uncommon ...

... of the jomt ‘editors, Mr. Ernest Bell, **iu his various pre: faces, never mentions the Supreme Being and the editor of Nature Notes further remarks :-— ++'There is a curious tendency in these books to treat the question of kindness to animals as it it ...

... advanced “ Lilliput Lectures.” Here Le creeps round more abstruse topics —the elements of political and social science, nature notes and thoughts on ‘trade, the tncan'm’gc of art or “make‘believe,” and the difliculties of morals and religion—in ?hunlly ...

... that in my opinion much harm is done by reason of the want of fore thought to our feathered friends. In last month’s “ Nature Notes ” a good :l;igoflion was niade by Mr. Edmund Selons. In short, it was that a specialised humane society should be started ...

... THE TABLES TURNED. An Epsom contributor to * Nature Notes writes -—* I believe that, when a cuckoo deposits her egg in another bird’s nest, the intruder, as soon as it is big enough, ousts the rightful nestlings. But early in June an instance to the ...