... 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 ...

... .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 ...

... 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 ...

... to show what d I attribute much of the damage done to game to our, at times, innocent looking fmend, the domestic cat. Nature Notes.” N ...

... elementary schools. Let special Gilbert White prizes be ottered at the end of the present term for the best original nature - notes made by the scholars during the summer vacation. In every school there is always a proportion of shy, ungregarious boys ...

... war had broken out in Europe. An interesting article on the wild cattle of Chartley, Staffordshire, is contributed to Nature Notes by Mr. J. R. B. Masefield. This herd of wild white cattle is of great antiquity; but whether the present animals are directly ...

... and general appearance when the wing causiug them to resemble an owl more than any other bird. In the daytime, according Nature Notes, they crouch on the ground among the bracken, heather, and furza bushes of cur commons, or seek the shelter of some thick ...

... WILD LIFE TASMANIA. Continuing interesting article Nature Notes, tho journal of the borne Society, Mr. Hamilton Stuart Dove writes awaking early tbo morning of a fino Bpring day, what chorus of bird voices greets our ear. first after dawn tho native ...

... rare fright The wanton and indiscriminate slaughter by three schoolboys, with whom a writer-in. the current number of ‘‘ Nature Notes ” claims friendship, of no fewer than i sixty of the swallow-tail butterfly (Papilio Machaon) will be viewed with indignation ...

... Fish Story.— I have witnessed some other curious wad interesting sights connected with my troutery, says writer in Nature Notes. I have been present at, ■nd seen fought out, pitched battles between rival fish. They generally last half hour or so ...

... between Calais and Dunkirk.. Three old eannon have been 'recovered from bhe wreck at )unkirk so far. In the Juneonumber of A' Nature Notes, Mr. R. Mlorl'ey calls attention tothe great' destruction of monkeys 'on the Gold- Coast for the .sake -of their akins ...

... trmmphod in his breast, and it to be hoped that the angry father will also repent. A TALKING CANARY. A lady correspondent of Nature Notes, while staying recently in the little of Chnrmill, Somerset, heard a talking canary. The bird belongs to a Mrs. Bnckland ...