... billiard players. This is quite xylonite billiard balls are now made truly and are pleasant play with th.is • made ivory.— Nature Notes.” ...

... A SPIDER SWALLOWING ITS WER. A correspondent writes to Nature Notes: Early in September some friends of mine saw garden spider (one with white marks on its back) make a web large enough cover one pain the diuiugroom window. It was a beautiful spider, ...

... SWALLOWS CARRYING INSECTS. A. M. Dixon (Birmingham) writes to Nature Notes : A Welsh farmer and shepherd with whom I conversed last month propounded the theory that swallows and other migratory birds carry insects under their wings for the purpose of ...

... SYSTEMATIC THEFT BY A BIRD. The following singular act of systematic theft, carried on by a crow, savs a correspondent in Nature Notes, is literally true. Messrs Lawrence and Mayo, opticians, have a place of business in Rampart Row, Bombay, and rooms also ...

... , living at lladdiscce, hamlet in the midst cf the Erst Anglian marshes, sends me, under date March 2Th, tho following nature notes: “A friend cf mine shot a bittern this winter. Tne open weather brought our breeding redshanks hero earlv this season; ...

... frogs are olten frozen to death in the dyke-beds. Since writing flic above, I *eo that the Rev. E. T, Daubcr.y writes to Nature Notes questioning the statement that frogs and toads remain under water, in mud, during three or four months of the year. admits ...

... Its place settlement becomes a place of sentiment ; nobody can liberate the starveling, and it trill stay there; its natural notes seem many calls for pity, which are much abated on the recollection that there are openings enough for its escape. ...

... blouse and hat of the same material trimmed with fawn silk and birds. Amongst the presents received, which were all costly nature, note the following: One dozen ivory-handled knives, Mr A. B. Murchunt; one dozen forks and spoons, Mrs A. B. Marchaut; handsome ...