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... NATURE NOTES. A Snake Fight. A remarkable occurrence took place few days back in the Zoological liardena at Hrcslau. Iu the cage the large snakos a South American boa constrictor contended for rabbit with very python from West Africa. It did not succeed ...
... NATURE NOTES. The Eagle's Wonderful Visiotu poor mortal! can only see hot a rsry limited without the aid a telescope, bat the eagle can look at an object the distance either two feet or two miles, and tee it with perfect clearness, because it has the ...
... NATURE NOTES. Bird Drunkards. In Florida there is bath culled the Pride Chiaa, whioh in winter is covered with berriee which the birds delight to feed. Mad berries the name commonly given to the fruit, from the fact that over-indulgence in them produces ...
... NATURE NOTES. Ths Voracity ot the Cockroach. that is eatable (and many thirds t'a* are not usually considered edible) comet ain.#s t» the cockroach, than whom it di&:u:tt» find a more omnivorous creature. t« almost every article human joorf, (yj apparently ...
... NATURE NOTES. About Snakes. According the popular idea makes are associated with all that is slimy, hideous, and filthy. But this refuted by writer in the current number of Chambers's Journal, who affirms that animal can be more graceful all its movements ...
... NATURE NOTES. 4 Birds' Hotel. enterprising Geraaa hotel proprietor *a» rareatiy hit upon a novelty. He often bad hia attention called to tha fact that ladies leaving home for tbe summer are a loss what with their pet birds,oot.wishing to inflict their ...
... NATURE NOTES. Tbe buzzing of insect* does not proceed fro* lbs wings, bnt from organs in tbe thorax. Paper indestructible by fire has been invented Parisian. specimen was subjected ...
... NATURE NOTES. THE OX-EYE DAISY. An intelligent gardener in the island of Colonsay, in the West of Scotland, said he had received, some years ago, seeds of the ox-eve daisy, which arrived in some packages from London, and now the daisy has taken entire ...
... NATURE NOTES. A Cafs Eye* A Mr. Lindsay Young has been busy examining the eyes of the domestio cat. One hundred and eighty felines have come nader his observation, and in a communication sent to the London Zoological Society, he concludes that th* natural ...
... NATURE NOTES. - - _ A fine specimen of the aloe tree is now (observes the Daily Graphk) in full bloom in Miss Gibson's garden, Hill House, Saffron Walden. Recently a fisherman killed on the Norfolk mast a specimen of the rare yellow Siberian warbler ...
... NATURE NOTES. The temperature of the sun, according to Dr. U. Ebert, is about 40,000 degrees C. —that is, parts below the photosphere. The elephant is commonly supposed to be a slow, clumsy animal, but when excitnd frightened it can uttain speed of 20 ...
... NATURE NOTES. Cunning Frog. naturalist paper relates interesting of frog's cunning. A brood of chicken fed with moistened meal in saucerr, and the dough soured a little it attracted large numoers of flies. An observant toad had evidently noticed this ...