... carefully observed, the number and marking of the eggs noted, there is more real pleasure (says Mr. F. W. Ashley, writing in Nature Notes) in leaving everything as you found it, and listening to the happy chirruping of the little owners you retire, than can ...

... VESTAS. London birds have to fall back on curious material for the building of their nests. Mr. A. Holt Macpherson tell in “ Nature Notes ” of some spotted fly- which nested im Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens last summer. One nest which he had watched he one ...

... BITS FOR BOYS AND GIRLS. JACKDAWS TAMED BY JACKDAW. A curious thing, which may interest some of the readers of Nature Notes (writes G. C. Green in the' paper named) happened with regard to a pair of jackdaws which we had here about 20 years ago. We had ...

... of these better concealed bird found, the position carefully observed, the number and of the there is Mr. P. We ash in Nature Notes) in leaving every- thing as you found it, and listening to the happy retire, than cap of the little owners as ina be got ...

... the welfare of her realm. GOOD NEWS FOR WILD BIRDS. Under the beading Good News for Wild Birds, Mr. John Pedder writes to Nature Notes to point out the means by which the Home Secretary can act for the protection of wild birds when applied to by the County ...

... HOME RULE IN THE NEST. Mr. H. J. Ormerod, in Nature Notes, refers to the natural pugnacioueness of the young jackdaw. Watching a family of jackdaws, he found the young one turning out the parent, seizing him by the throat and shaking him with indignation ...

... THE KENTISH IN EPEN ENT. WINTER A COUNTRY ARDEN, Nature Notes, the of the Selborne GBociety, which always contains interesting rewi- of life or come @iation of nature's beauties, includes this month an attractive article by A. L. Stevenson on “ A Coun ...

... the pneumatic tyre greater than any yet known or dreamed will bind humanity together in a common THE MOLOCH OF FASHION, Nature Notes prints the clergy which bas just been issued by the for the W. H. of It is from the runs: pen “In of come species of which ...

... be added to the list of text-booke in connection with the bealing ert that ought to be in every lib; sry, A LaDY lent of Nature Notes, while sta; ing at the litle vi of Churchill, t, beard a talking canary. bird belongs to Mre, Buckland, wife of a gardener ...

... Willits the recollection of living people nightingales have been heard in Hyde-park. The Rev. Leonard Blomfield, who, says Nature Notes, has probably observed British birds for a longer time than any living English naturalist, sends our coati temporary the ...

... GILBERT WHITE IN SUSSEX. In this month's number of Nature Notes, the journal of the Selborne Society, Mr. W. Heneage Legge has an interesting article under this head. lie says that readers of Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne are, of course ...

... its \E a athe oak ‘and larch, Brrs’s aAxD ‘Meet tribute render ! Knowledge of the natural laws whieh tne J. Lewron (in “ Nature Notes.”) vos of digession and cation vi the hue propersies of Cocoa, ast and eappers Jeo: | Wuew Sir Michael Hicks-Beach comes ...