... Astwood Bank, Worcestershire, is in the habit of providing some curious homes for the birds in his neighbourhood. He tells in Nature Notes that last spring he accommodated three pairs of robins with ordinary empty tomato tins to build in, which he placed in ...

... °vie iron , ein• gun° '''l dadiin toe - • m - j'hn •••-- apt . amandmeut in the One . . lien suggeeteel tells in Nature Note. that lad wiring he l ee k h e ~. f ewer . ~f t h, ew e. eholr. Yee. 1 ray PP Well go at once le to wait tell I get ent ...

... BLACKBIRD AND THE CAT. A pair of built garden this in laurel hedge, and (says Bournemouth correspondent Nature Notes”) when the young ones were hatched the cat thought •k would like to hare one. out the oid bird too sharp, and. seeing the eat approach ...

... gentleman has spent two winters in the highway# and hedge# of hi# country car mug the language of crows. «aya, stale* '* Nature Notes. that these bird* have twoniy-Bvc words, expressing here, there, hot. cold. “take care, armed man,” nest, red ...

... Starling’s Spring Cleaning. Early one spring morning, not long ago, correspondent of Nature Notes rays, I was watching the flowers opening, the birds sing* ing, and other signs of spring from my bedroom window, when down flaw a stalling from the roof ...

... though a staunch friend of this country, was perhaps the mosta)opular statesman in Hungary. THE following (says a writer in Nature Notes) is worth recording. In the hollows of a small but aged elm-tree standing in front of a well-known inn on the Faringdonroad ...

... ringworm from the resemblance the erusts hear to the depressions the honey' comb. The treatment of both varieties is shah Nature Notes mentions a carious incident which was witnessed at Helper, a small town not far from Derby. Late one afternoon three rate ...

... this connection it may be worth while recording some remarkable statements of Mr. E. T. Daubeny, lately published in '• Nature Notes. The migratory movements of most birds (wrote that gentleman) are probably performed at a far greater distance from the ...

... readers. The Story of Masic. Frederick J. Crowest, i* a compact little volume, giving the history music from its orign in nature, noting its development through all the ages down to the present time. The little volume, the author tells os. intended, not for ...

... cuckoo does not build nest of ita own and os how many eggs female lays during a season. True (says Mr. W. P. Westell, in “Nature Notes”), we have this time exploded the altogether erroneous statement that the bird lays its egg* the nest of the species with ...

... THE COLOUR OF THE SEA. The spring is not more limpid than tho water of ocean; it absorbs, says Mrs. Somerville Nature Notes,” *ll the prismatic colours, except that ultramarine, which, being reflected every direction, imparts a hue approaching the aauro ...

... choice of churns. which necessitated her going to look over Hugh's shoulder. (To roptimvd.) BIRD VENGEANCE. A writer in Nature Notes describes an amusing encounter between a large swan and a little brown duck. The duck had appart oily insulted the swan ...