... NATURE NOTE BY MILLWAY During Christmas readers may have made acquaintance with the pheasant partridge, etc., if only a gastronomic sense, and If you have feelings of graiiture for the appeasing of a good appetite you can do something to liquidate the ...

... NATURE NOTE. The failure summer weather (writes Mr. 9, Banks, Portsmouth) rather ead thing, as sunshine has a great influence over human nature. Nowadays people are more naturally inclined to be out of doors. We see people walking or-riding through the ...

... NATURE NOTE, Mr. S. Banks, Portsmouth, writes: Since tha exit of the cold, wet weather, through the beautiful rainbow that spanned our lovely valley some days ago, warm, genial, and suimner weather has prevailed. Just now insect life i* astir on every ...

... NATURE NOTE Over King’s Mill a day or two ago saw a kestrel capture a small bird, but the fading light I could not make out species. There was an excited chal of two bluebirds, and the shrii warning notes of missel thrushes as th suddenly left the hedge ...

... Nature Note ‘THE SWALLOWS RETURN They come back year after year, the swallows and martins, to delight vs with their flight. They are frail, but the power of their flight is magical. Free and swift their flight is. the fiighl of beings used to wide spaces ...

... Nature Note brown snow has weighted fronds and broken -g i flh For months ...

... NATURE NOTE. A Dover newspaper recently contained the following plrlgrn,Kxe:-—A very fine specimen of a water otter was caught on the slope at the root of the Fastern Arm this week by one of the workmen. It is being kept in a tub near the sceme of its ...

... NATURE NOTE. Mr. S. Banks, the local naturalist, writes: June is here, and the trees and shrube are in full leaf. Blossom is less abundant than year ago, owing doubtless to much wet and a lack of sunshine. Bluebells (hyacinths) have flowered rich profusion ...

... Nature Note When chill December freezes the pond and hardens the earth, many wild creatures go without food, and some of them die of hunger. There is no fishing for the heron; the ice resists the tapping of his strong beak. The sparrow's larder is frozen; ...

... Nature Note CATS AND Why are domestic S in frosty weather? I thrown out of doors , to get up circulation if jcS but become excited rug, playing J the warmest part of My cat has just imaginary enemy ifid down again, and is the garden. o J It takes care ...

... NATURE NOTE. have had week of grand frosty weather (writes Mr. S. Banks, of Portsmouth), more or loss tempered with sunshine. Flowers that had begun to put forth new bode have for the tiroo received setback till winter relaxes its grip. Then we shall ...

... NATURE NOTE. Mr. S. Banks, of Portsmouth, in his note itmarks the splendid variety of recent suia-vt-r. Night after night (he writes) Uie western sk;e.-> have presented to our view pictures of uusurpassing beauty. We have now the purplo heather, which ...