... y interesting plant, known as little aundew. It is a very• wouilerfull little invert-eating plant, and readers of your Nature Note* should be easily able to distinguish it. Tho leaves are very tiny —about the size of a man's thumb nail, and are app.a ...

... Aslwood Bank, Worcestershire, in the habit of providing some curious horns# for the birds in his neighbourhood. He telle Nature Note* that last spring accommodated three pairs of robins with ordinary empty tomato tins to, build in, which placed in various ...

... NATURE NOTES, COAST WILDFOWL. Wildfowl are reported to be numerous along the Essex, Kentish, Norfolk, and Suffolk coasts, where excellent feeding grounds are obtainable in the estuaries and creeks of the Thames, Blackwater, Deben, Crouch, Tare, Stour ...

... NATURE NOTES. CANNIBAL FIELD NICE. Perhaps, in proportion to its i'.xe, the shrew the most ferocious and pugnacious animal known to science, not excluding the formidable of Madagascar. The daily combats of shrewa magnified 6ft. scale would more than Homeric ...

... NATURE NOTES. 4 am fo* aumiEit. Oh! for oae those good, oM-bsUona* rammers (sighs writer is tin “Westminster Gazette”) to put new spirit in us. when flowers and fruit os their proper seasons and not six weeks lata—if at all: when Britain craw her own ...

... NATURE NOTES SHELTER PLANTATIONS. Before the Newcastle Club, oB Saturday. Mr. A. C. Forbes read a paper on Shelter Plantation* lor Cattle. The only alternative to shelter belts, he said, was buildings, and these were too expensive. His idea of tna beet ...

... NATURE NOTES. 1 i , , . SOMETHING LIKE AN EGG. egg weighing s}oz., and measuring eight inches in circumference, has been laid Nottingham hen. A WONDERFUL CAVE. One of the largest caves ever explored has recently been discovered on Lime Fork Creek, in ...

... NATURE NOTES. FRIGATE BIRD. Mr. J. Lancaster, American naturalist wk. spent five years on the west coast of Florida studying birds there, came to the conclusion that, of all the feathered tenants the sir, the frigate bird can fly the longest without resting ...

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... NATURE NOTES. Leaning the pesapet of old Mess breakwater or nier.bred, and watching the playing about is the clear green depths below, ierhaps the last thought which is likely to to any of us is that we are looking on at a nay aetontihing thing. That ...

... NATURE NOTES. OF INSECTS. In no part of their behneher do inmate dig* mom ma/refines Mean when are preparing. far w velar* d their StMCled than are olumg and browns euridasly skilful, and pertinaciona—wctnein Sarah Beetles sad their kindred, where Imo ...

... Nature Notes. Ins Owl. Hearing the notes of his piano struck first up the keys and then down, Mr. Ernest Lemmy, St. Peas Bond, Peterborough, peeped through the open door and discovered that the player wee his pet owl. The owl would step on a key and then ...