... NATURE NOTES: THE CDCKOO AND SWALLOWS. Mr. James Hiam, The Wren’s Nest, Astwood Bank, writes to a Birmingham contemporary, of Tuesday last, as follows : I happen to know that some of your readers take an interest in natural history, especially in birds ...

... often seen in fashionable menus. They make.a very delicate meal, but can any man of feel. lag eat them with a relish 7 Nature Notes says they are ling eaten at dinner parties by ten, of thousands, and are in consequence rapidly dim:wapiti/kg in numbers ...

... A SPIDER SWALLOWING ITS WEB. A oomwsponilent writes to Nature Notes : F. m' •in September some friends of mine saw a. garden spider (one with white mark, on it, back) make a web large enough to cover one vane of lb* dining room window. It was a beautiful ...

... beautiful Cornish chongh. There is but one effectual remedy for all this, according to that admirable little “publication, Nature Notes. It lies in the diligent cultivation and inculeation of those ¢ Selbornian principles ’’ to which this organ of the disciples ...

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

... way. London birds have sometimes fail back on curious material for the building of their Mr. A. Hoi: Macpherson tells in Nature Notes of some spotted which nested in Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens last summer. One nest which had watched lie noticed one ...

... Only one jack was found in the nets, its weight being filb. nas 11:17;i1e1 sienisaiwricoe. Lynn Linton has been telling Nature Notes of interesting kitten of hers, and bow it *aught its first mouse. 'Suddenly, she says, the mouse disappeared down her ...

... 83 years. Mrs. Garnett retained all her faculties to the last. THE LAST DOG STORY. Cumberland correspondent, writing to Nature Notes, vouches for the correctness of this delightful little dog story :—A farmer, who lives some miles from Carlisle, went to ...

... cold, frogs are often frozen to death in dyke-beds. Since writing the above, I see that the Rev. E. T. Daubeny writes to Nature Notes questioning tho statement that frogs snd toads remain under water, in mud, during three or four months of the year. He ...

... directed to convey the thanks of the committee to the donors: From Miss Sharp. Horton House, Rugby, tw. Ive monthly parts of “Nature Notes”; from Mr. E. Over. Rugby, S.-ll's “World's Press” directory of newspapers). from Rev. C. Hampstead, N.W., vol. 10 of “The ...

... lists of people qualified to vote. August 29th is the last day upon which new lodger claims can be sent in. Writing to Nature Notes, from 13.2rkswell, Warwickshire, Mr. Alfred N. Hopkins fears that the Wild Birds' Preservation Acts have not done much ...

... birds havo sometimes to fall back on curious material for the building of their nests. Mr. A. Holt Macpherson tells in Nature Notes of some spotted flyoa-ucbers which nested in Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens last summer. One nest which he had watched ...