... 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. WHORTLEBERRIES. . . The whortleberry has never taken the place in the estimation of the public that it should have taken. It has delicious flavour, and makes excellent jam. The objection to the whortleberry, or “hurt,” it is called, is that ...

... NATURE NOTES. HE LIKEO NEW-LAID EGOS. Some friends of on« of our readers keep fowls, a clog, which has been in the habit of riming loose. After the birds had started laying the owners could not imagine why they suddenly stopped. Judge of their surprise ...

... NATURE NOTES. CARROTS OF SIZE. Two corrots recently dugs from garden Ash Thomas. Devon, measured and a third lO^in. WHERE GRASS WILL NOT GROW. is strange that in Asia and Africa, wbera grass will not grow, the most beautiful flowers and shrubs flourish ...

... NATURE NOTES. AM UNDESIRABLE ALIEN. A live locust, two inches long, with blown wing covers marked with black, baa been caught in Leeds market. ...