... A CASE OF PEVERSION. A writer in Nature Notes says he was greatly surprised the other day to learn, on the authority of a keeper, that most of the ducks in Kensington Gardens make their nests in the trees. Wherever there is a dwarfed tree, or where ...

... A CUCKOO CAUGHT IN ITS OWN The Rev. Julian C. Tuck writes from Toetock Rectory, West Suffolk, to Nature Notes One day about the middle of June I saw a cuckoo in our garden apparently flying moo an ivy-covered wall, which has been for years a favourite ...

... fishermen, and joiners. They are frugal and industrious without exception. STRANGE CONDUCT OF A BLACKBIRD. A writer in Nature Notes, rays:—At spring -time, when birds of the male sex are often seized with an irresistible desire to display their gallantry ...

... fur tho augmentation of small livings. B.G.S. BIRDS EXTRAORDINARY. Mr. J. Joiner Weir gives an interesting account in Nature Notes of the extraordinary collection of birds at the residence of Mr. W. Ingram, M.P., at Westgate, living happily in every ...