... Nature Note. Most of us have had some sort of a failing for catching things or fishing for them during our school days. Tadpoles. Personally I always , had rather a liking for tadpoles. You might sit fur hours and not catch a single wretched stickleback ...

... NATURE NOTE. TEL srutuNo (sTuasus VULGAR'S). The Marlin is a well-known bird. being very coalition in this cliontry, and it becoal)iig increasingly 'rib samara- Jag year. probably siring to the pad of the Wild Birds Protection Act of 1106. The full-grown ...

... Nature Note By the middle of January the naturalist is certainly justified in feeling elated at the prospect of wring. of Even before the days began to lengthen spring there were a few signs for those who cared to read them. In November we saw a; the ...

... Nature Note The turn of the year has really come This week the chiff-chaffs, first of this year's migrants, were singing in a Middlesex garden—a very early date. We may perhaps expect an early seaaon for birds in general, as well as plants. Almost all ...

... Nature Note 'As we get into October the signs of winter begin to become conspicuous. The leaves start to October (-hinge colour in September; early in October they commence to fall. The hedgerows become bright with hips and haws (the old English names ...

... NATURE NOTE Jelly-Fish. Jus. at the present time the presence of jellyfish in the sea is being very forcibly brought to the notice of holiday-makers. The Belgian coast is swarming with them, and many English resorts are but little better. Passengers on ...

... Nature Note very November is a good month in which to start the Wild study of wild birds. Many are still cornin ;lig over from the Continent, but the November. leafless condition of tile trees makes observation very easy. The goldfinch, with his shrill ...

... NATURE NOTE The Edible Crab and Other Species. During the summer months of last year several of our nature notes dealt with interesting shells and creatures to be observed by the sea, and we now propose to add some additional articles on the same lines ...

... NATURE NOTE London Trees—The Plane. VISITORS to our Metropolis are taken to see many rare and wonderful objects of art and antiquity, but it is very rarely that they are specially shown the London Plane. Yet this tree Is really worthy of a place In the ...

... NATURE NOTE The Streatham Snake The recent report in this paper of a snake 3ft. Nina. long killed in Wyatt Park-road, Streatham, and the interesting letter from a reader which appeared in the following issue, indicate that a short account of our British ...

... NATURE NOTE. Food For Our Birds. A few e..ee.ka ago I explained how the titmice will give an acrobatic display in return fur their food, but town and country folk alike can have the enjoyment of providing birds with a treat through• out the winter. The ...

... NATURE NOTE& PROTIXTIVE RESEMBLANCE AMONG INSECIa At this time vfyear. when the country seems to lack much of Nye interest which is to be 'found ever w here in bewildeting ahnudance during the more genial seasons of the year, the naturalist generally ...