... NATURE NOTE. One our earliest and most outstanding spring visitors the wheatear. If you were walking on the open downs at this time the year you could not fail to notice Mr. Wheatear in his new spring suit. i ...

... NATURE NOTE. Town dwellers are very fond of the house sparrow, for is the one small bird that seems quite at home and happy among the bricks and mortar and the smoke and dust town. i.s found all over Great Britain wherever there are human habitat ions ...

... NATURE NOTE A conspicuous feature almost every and coppice, now that autumn Minds have stripped the branches of their leaves, are the marble oak-galls. These are the work of minute ga'lwa.p—a tiny four-winged fly witii metallic gloss—which deposits its ...

... NATURE NOTE. • Lynn. Monday The newapapers laat week reported that Ono hundred and four bats had been found asleep behind the sign of the Canal Tavern, Grindley Brook, near Whitchurch, on the Chester road. They were ensconced in a snug two-in?h cavity ...

... NATURE NOTE. Although the pretty little yellow winter aconite is not really British, it has been successfully naturalised in many parts of the country that one is glad to welcome it the first flower of the New* Year. Where its clumps are surrounded bv ...

... NATURE NOTE Those of you who live in the country uill have noticed that the meadow grasses have run to their (lowering stage. Grasses distil potpourri fragrance, and when remenilx'r how other floweis nrc pollinated, it is curious to think that the grasses ...

... NATURE NOTE. LINN, Monday. Spring has been very definitely in the air this last week, and vegetation has made rapid strides. Viewed from above, in the bright sunshine, the lilacs are quite green with bud. It you examine the plants in the herbaceous border ...

... NATURE NOTE. Lynn, Monday. &feeders who are intere*ied in the reasoning powers of birds and animal. sueuld slimy the ways ot the great tit. previously stated these notes, suspended a brawl nut by means of a piece ot trung from a horizontal bar of iron ...

... NATURE NOTE. n.:XIY-IRD. The honey-bird of South is about the size a . sparrow. and has • shrill, hissing cry, with which it attracts the attention of me.. whom it conducte to trees, sometimes miles away, where the honey of wild bees is stored. When the ...

... NATURE NOTE. Mosday. A lady oorrespoudent writes: I have followiag example, sad have pLacii.l • cocoanut in ray garden on which the tits meld regale them/mice+. I Imre been greatly it their antics. As them to be two or three Wade of oa the ant tress ...

... NATURE NOTE& • febt • frac mod • sesseUs imMemed al Laws MP la • prod. aid lb* frog. elaquog ii. maid seek. 11 water until Jo wee 0(01111•4. Vties Faun. • eurwrity ems bo is prase ed tilosoreter Lodge. Putt b• hwid, Mamma Dittos. honey. A gooseberry bulb ...

... NATURE NOTE& Ti Banded with orange end black, the burp lug beetle would attract attention apart from it. curious sod metal habit of burying underground any deed or small bird that it may happen to find. The task, even when several ot these Sr. at work ...