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... NATURE NOTE The Buck Otter Hounds are stated to have killed no less than seventy otters this season in the county. This does not look as though these interesting animals were becoming extinct. The most extraordinary of all self-mutilating animals is the ...
... NATURE NOTE The discovery near Hetrick of a full-grown weasel in the body of a pike adds another to the many instances which have been reo3rid froo time to time of the extroardinary voracity of this fish. Yarrell. in his - History of British Fishee, ...
... NATURE NOTE We are in the heyday of the breed season. Even the last of our summer visitants are the train being brought up by the the swallow-kind have either neste or eggs, except the great, black swift. The of our own thrushes—early breeders all—have ...
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... ANOTHER NATURE NOTE lu the garden of Mariborougli House some thnirfie# have been ainmng blithdy for several days, while two pairs in ■Uae grounds Bare and Hounds Hotel Bast Sheen have taken time tho forelock by raising families of three and four young ...
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... A NATURE NOTE. Are losing the goldfinch r* An interesting note on this bird in the current number of the Board of Agriculture says it now comparatively rare in many districts. The bird-catcher blaragd. THE AULD LIGHTS. It is reported from Kirriemuir ...
... Nature Note. [Br RAMBLER.] The Editor of the Northern Weekly Gazette affers two half-crown prizes each week for the best paragraph on Nature. The prizes are offered to stimulate original observations, similar to those found recorded by our correspondents ...