A PLEA FOR THE PRIMROSE
... is grubbed up, to make a [London] holiday. Selbornians should by precept and example deprecate this wanton practice.— Nature Notes. ...
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OW mul entio
... OW entio. Bearded Tit in Norfolk. A pleasant piece of natural history gossip appears in Nature Notes from Norfolk. A certain landowner, who happens to be very wealthy and at tbesame time an enthusiastic ornithologist, last year had no fewer than seven ...
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... taint about the mare for we.-ka after it is set; sad the keepers usually detect the wires long before the odour has gone.— Nature Notes. ...
' A Nest of Wax Vestas
... birds hate sometimes to fall back on curious material for the building. of their nests. Mr. A. Holt Macpherson tells in Nature Notes of some spotted fly-catchers which nested in Hydepark and Kensington-gardens last summer. One nest which he watched he ...
AN ELEPHANT’S BRIGHT IDEA
... N ELFPHANT'S B RIGHT IDFA A correspondent writes to Nature Notes One day when my brotber and [ were at the 7 Gardena, we went to feed with a bag of We were ythe way they stretched out thelr trunks through the bars of the cage to tako the food, then curled ...
A TALENTED ROBIN
... A TALENTED ROBIN. Mr. Peter Lewis, of Hereford, sends Nature Notes, a marvellous, yet apparenty well authenticated anecdote of a robin who formed a decided attachment to two maiden ladies, sisters of Squire Jones, of Pyle. Wheresoever these ladies walked ...
Dm* stows
... the taint the snare for weeks after r is set, and the keepers usually detect the wires leaf before the odour hes gune.— Nature Notes. ...
.A. To/king Cozary
... .A. To/king Cozary. A lady correspondent of Nature Notes, while staying recently in the little village of Churchill, Somerset, heard a tslkity canary. The bird belongs to a Mrs. Wickland, wife of a gardener living in Churchill. Joey came into her ...
TROUT WHO FIGHT
... Story. I have- witnessed some other curious and inter- esting sights connected with my troutery, says a writer in Nature Notes. I have been present at, and seen fought out, pitched battles between rival fish. They generally last half an hour or ...
BLACKBIRD'S INSANE DELUSION
... BLACKBIRD'S INSANE DELUSION. J. K. S. writes from Abbotsfield to Nature Notes as follows :—At spring-time, when birds of the male sex are often seized with an irresistible desire to display their gallantry by picking a quarrel with their neighbours ...
A Cat Goes Fishing
... A Cat Goes Fishing. Inthe current pamber of Nature Notes is o littlo narretive estitled “ A Strange Poacher,” which tells how & eat which lived on the banks of ooe of the feoders of Loch Leven devaloped habite of noctarnal posching which would bave done ...
A TALKING CANARY
... A TALKING CANARY. A lady correspondent of Nature Notes, while staying I recently in the little village of Churchill, Somerset,heard a talking canary. The bird belongs to a Mrs. Buckland, wife of a gardener, living in Churchill. Joey came into her ...