... NATURE NOTE. Birds no longer enjoy the songful freedom of their bachelor days. Family cares and responsibilities force them to scorn delights, and live laborious daye. From sunrise to sunset they bustle and hurry to fill the gaping mouths in the rest ...

... NATURE NOTE. The migration of birds has at all times excited the interest of observers. Although a large amount of information has been obtained on the subject, the conclusions arrived at are few and indefinite. . i The crowning difficulty is to account ...

... NATURE NOTE& CANNIBAL FIELD MICE. Perhaps, in proportion to its vise, the sh rew is tha most ferovious end puguamous to science, not excluding the formidabl.. of hlsdagascar. The daily combat. .; shrews magnified to a att. scale would be moie Homeric ...

... NATURE NOTE. There lies below Keston, on the way to West Wickham, one of the daintiest dells in Kent. It were sacrilege to make the exact locality » | public. Moreover, though lam there frequent. ry.it-nyhltm Not more than an s | acre in extent, the little ...

... NATURE NOTE. A Dover newspaier recently contained the following paragraph:—“A very fine specimen of a water otter was caught on the slope at the root of the Eastern Arm this week by one of the workmen. It is being kept in a tub near the scene of its capture ...

... NATURE NOTE. Slowly the year is slipping into the deeper shades of autumn. Already avenue and grove are littered with dead, discoloured leaves. The sap is at a stand still in the stem. The larger bats have retired to their dungeon-dark recesses. Scrambling ...

... NATURE NOTE& Many visitor* to St. James’s Park last week were aurprised, 1 expect, at the number tbruahea that were to be seen. Whereas they here appeared only in ones and twos all the winter, they are now to seen eveiywnero pulling worms out the grass ...

... NATURE NOTE. Plora strolls leisurely through the land, dropping a blossom here and there. Periwinkle, with eyes of twinkling blue, from under the shrubbery near Mhur‘p.g:n-. A tuft of Field Madder, with a single lilac-tinted flower, nestles under the ...

... NATURE NOTE. Spring has flztl“ into summer. Every department of Nature is busy. Now is the day for the naturalist who knows no names. Knowledge is not needed to enjoy to the full the surpassing scemery to be viewed from Chislehurst Common. The woodland ...

... NATURE NOTE, Festoons of Traveller’s Joy—our native clematis—brighten the dust-discoloured hedgerows. The flower sprays of this creeper—a relative of the butrercup—are remarkably handsome, despite the fact that the blossoms are petalless. Its name. prettily ...

... NATURE NOTE? Tha roMowiac lattar appMra in * Natan, apapar aothanaily toanyltfa^nara (rirotoa* tkaa (aonoaa ataal aa* yaleeity ot ptojaatilaat Tha (oOowiaf (ante la oansaetMti with •pactmaa tha print bank-moth nay poaaibly ha of iataraat to roow ot your ...

... NATURE NOTE SHELTER PLANTATIONS. Before the Newcastle Club, osi Saturday, Mr. A. C. Forbes read • paper on Shelter Plantations for Cattle. The only alternative to shelter belts, be said, was buildings, sad these were too expensive. His idea of the best ...