... NATURE NOTE. The migration of birds has at all times excited the interest of observers. Although a large amount of information has been obtained on the subject, the conclusions arrived at are few and indefinite. . i The crowning difficulty is to account ...

... Nature Note • Silent Ifit aneigf are :n the habit of holding iambics m ushrooms specially designated - Fungus Forays and duii.ig thr autumn months, and the find' T oa d s t oo l r made on these are both interesting •nd varied. many of u• air to , egard ...

... Nature Note - November is a very good month in %%hich to start the Wild Birds study of wild birds. Many are still corn• in ing over from the Continent hut the November. leafless condition of the trees makes oh'wry:omo very easy. The goldfinch, with his ...

... NATURE NOTE SHELTER PLANTATIONS. Before the Newcastle Club, osi Saturday, Mr. A. C. Forbes read • paper on Shelter Plantations for Cattle. The only alternative to shelter belts, be said, was buildings, sad these were too expensive. His idea of the best ...

... Nature note 154,4,1-61 Earlier in the week, just before dusk, I saw a cloud of starlings, a countless host, dire swiftly from the unclouded sky and, after two enormous wheels in perfect formation, settle as if by a common impulse on the trees of the Thames ...

... NATURE NOTE. Plora strolls leisurely through the land, dropping a blossom here and there. Periwinkle, with eyes of twinkling blue, from under the shrubbery near Mhur‘p.g:n-. A tuft of Field Madder, with a single lilac-tinted flower, nestles under the ...

... NATURE NOTE. A Dover newspaier recently contained the following paragraph:—“A very fine specimen of a water otter was caught on the slope at the root of the Eastern Arm this week by one of the workmen. It is being kept in a tub near the scene of its capture ...

... Nature Note _ the b. swat a plant Ore • solutely the order hich Whop Susi mistletoe drod lupe. es Fool.i 4 1 trapil thp II Ih. only eapettere to load hit Brillé Wm. The Oast ••• a allaidisi late. that as to itti it dress mineral miteral lotto 'he .- ...

... NATURE NOTE. Spring has flztl“ into summer. Every department of Nature is busy. Now is the day for the naturalist who knows no names. Knowledge is not needed to enjoy to the full the surpassing scemery to be viewed from Chislehurst Common. The woodland ...

... Nature Note. Most ot us have had some sort of a failing for totaling things or fishing for them dur. ing our day , . Personally 1 aluays iad rathcr a liking fur tadpoles. You niight -it foe and not Tadpoles. I catth a single eat at icklebaa k, tadpoles ...

... NATURE NOTE, Festoons of Traveller’s Joy—our native clematis—brighten the dust-discoloured hedgerows. The flower sprays of this creeper—a relative of the butrercup—are remarkably handsome, despite the fact that the blossoms are petalless. Its name. prettily ...

... NATURE NOTE. . September to the juvenile is SynOnymous ‘with two names—“conkers” and l*ekbflrifl.‘ ‘The first is playground patois for fhe fruit of the horse-chestnut, the second needs no explaining—torn pinafores and stained fingers hll‘ ‘their tale. The ...