... NATURE NOTES. COAST WILDFOWL Wildfowl reported be numerous along the Esaox, Kentish, Norfolk, and Suffolk coasts, whan excellent feeding grounds obtainable in tbs estuaries and creeks the Thames, Blackwater, Deten, Crouch, Tars, Stour (Essex), Stour (Kent) ...

... excellent foater-motber, and ran wildly about the field and bellowed piteously when the lam be ware taken away. TAME OTTER. In “Nature Note*” Hr. B. T. Danbeny pots in plea for tbe protection of the otter. There ia least one instance record this* being tamed, ...

... NATURE NOTES. Th» NioTOwoAM’i Soho. nightingale sixtoon different bo* ginning* and endings when it many intermediate note*, wbile other bud* hare but tour five change*. Uou BanuAHi Bmroxa a Stouc. Glow worm* more brilliant when storm ia imminent than ...

... NATURE NOTES. Dbokoo. A w raoqnet-teilcd drongo, m India* bird, which imitdto the song of slmaot erory other bird and the toiom of enteale from dog* donkey*, has been presented to the Zoo. Hue name waa given to the bird by tha Franco-Dutch natural iat ...

... NATURE NOTES. Danunm ar AmxAU. Thai, plant which animal, bo dsamt aa the cwtor-oil plant. A. goat will imthar than eat it, and awn that destroyer everything green, the loouat, will not laeA upon it. Lnmnss Tuna. Forests of laafleaa tree# ar. to be found ...

... nature notes. ABOUT BLACKBERRIES, Viwatable Trades “Fruit, Flower, and Yegeian .. w Journal ’’wmits to know why the coma* berry has not been improved toe tivation grnter _• commerce sfc l l . i.‘^- tween, wo say the waves ran mountains “‘gb, but toe highest ...

... NATURE NOTES. THE MOLE CATCHER. Lest winter the mole catcher was making little fortune out of the fashion of the moment. Fouruence, and in some cases much as sixpence was (the “Draper” says) paid for the skin of every “little gentleman in black.” Now ...

... NATURE NOTES. Tn Stom*. Four atorka, ood liberated by ornitholo«ie»l _ aociety in Pnueia, bare been onpturea ana exanuned in the Tranaraal. Tbey bad down about fi.Boo milea. Hitherto it bad baaa believed that European atorka never migrated beyond the ...

... NATURE NOTES. The Australian, platypus ona of most interesting of all animals, owing its possessing physical resemblance to many other creatures. has fur like seal and the bill of a duck; it laya eggs, and yet it suckles its young. ...

... NATURE NOTES. How Snnm Kills. It may said that the perfection • stineing-apparatua la found, without doubt, in the serpent-tribes. In poisonous snake discover two hollow, or grooved, teetn (n), often capable being erected lowered in the month, and springing ...

... NATURE NOTES. lira Pocnc Oovbsb. The pocket gopher is moat cnrion* ao4 interesting rodent. It liyee in North an# Central America, and ia fitted with peculiar cheek ponehea, for atoring food, which ope# front the outside. The gopher* live entirely underground ...

... NATURE NOTES. Tabsusb. The Tarsier very rarely mm. being nocturnal. These little creatures from the Malay Islands hop about the trees in search of insecte. Their large eyes, beentifnl fnr, end peculiar thin tufted tail ere marked features. They ere smeller ...