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... fury.”—From ** The Big Game of South Africa,’ in Magazine for January. 1896. Bats Camm*.—Mr. J. Batten has published in Nature Note* bis observations on common and long-eared bats in captivity. Ho finds that the latter are endowed with superior poweis ...

Published: Friday 27 December 1895
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 2603 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

FELINE BENEVOLENCE

... BENEVOLENCE. | Tuz follc wing curious instance of feline benevolence (writes the Rev. Gilbert White, of Lemsden Vicarage, in Nature Notes) has recentl, R et ive years the chickens of an old Bramab ben at her owner's cottage under her special protection. As ...

Published: Monday 25 September 1893
Newspaper: Ulster Echo
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 127 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

FONDNESS OF MICE FOR MUSIC

... FONDNESS OF MICE FOR MUSIC. A sics little animal story is given in Nature Notes. which raises the interesting gquestion whetber mice bave & fondness for musie. It is contributed by & musician, who says—* One eveniog I was comewhat startled at hearing ...

Published: Friday 22 November 1895
Newspaper: Ulster Echo
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 174 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

FOR THE CANARY

... Never take acoge with a shees metsl or wooden roof, and +schew all paintirg and gildiog. The perciies ( ...

Published: Wednesday 12 June 1895
Newspaper: Ulster Echo
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 186 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE SHEEP AND HER BLIND LAMB

... little white innocent-faced lambs gambolling by their side, the objects of tender solicitude to these mothers. A writer in Nature Notes tells a pretty story of a mother with twin lambs, one of which seemed quite different from the other. He observed it wandering ...

Published: Saturday 07 July 1894
Newspaper: Lisburn Standard
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 235 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

A NEW LIGHT

... ordinary minudeecent gas light, it shows an economy of from 30 to 40 per cent. The in. *Allston is an extremely simple nature. noting of an apparatus wherein the gar, as plied front the meter. is pared through the water under pressure. The is entirely ...

Published: Tuesday 24 May 1898
Newspaper: Ulster Echo
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 252 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

TO THE PRACTICAL FARMER OF THE WITNESS

... canary's notes perfectly. CAS it be restored to its natural notes; if by what means? ANSWER.— If it be removed from the canary's company and brought near another lark it will learn its natural notes again. It is evident that its preeent companion moat ...

Published: Friday 24 April 1885
Newspaper: Witness (Belfast)
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 610 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

TERRIBLE EXPLOSION IN CHINA

... a working weaver, be is now a millicnaire. His tather worked in a coal-pit near Glasgow. A TALKING CANARY. Accosuine to Nature Notes, there is a talking canary in Somersetshire. The bird has not exactly a flow of original conversation, but is prompt with ...

Published: Monday 07 August 1893
Newspaper: Ulster Echo
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 264 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

JOHN

... Archaisms, and Notes on our old I ...

Published: Thursday 05 January 1860
Newspaper: Belfast Mercury
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 293 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THE NORTHERN WHIG, SATURDAY, APRIL U, 1887

... are tempted to think they aro great talkers and have been well trained. The fact scorns to that both these bird? have natural notes which seem ' quite plain English, and, no doubt, the owner of pet parrot gives his bird credit for a linguistic power to ...

Published: Saturday 09 April 1887
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1489 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

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... they were pre “Glasgow Herald.” NSECT LIVES AS TOLD BY — =~ SELVES. By Epwarp ee sentative. little book seems to young r “Nature Notes.” = sae Srorxow, late of Calcutta. s of Crown Svo, 36 6d. ‘*Well written and interesting.” ought to be familiar. es either ...

Published: Thursday 17 November 1898
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 447 | Page: 4 | Tags: none