... NATURE NOTES. EARLY NESTING OF BIRDS. At this time of the year one constantly sees in different journals letters or notes trcm correspondents recording, as it phenomenal, the early nesting of certain birds, usually the thrush. It is a mistake to think ...

... NATURE NOTES. STILL we learn. I have always looked upon sparrows as rather 'plebeian, immoral birds, with no accomplishments in the way of graces of flight or engaging manners. But one evening I was on the top lawn, studying the contours of the oaks ...

... NATURE NOTES All Somerset and more is in revolt against my scepticism concerning primroses planted upside down. *’Zoraerzet,” who writes from Plumstead, having left his native county twenty years ago, writes; I had no idea that there was any doubt as ...

... NATURE NOTES. THE PIED FLYCATCHER. Nearly everybody mho has any interest in the bird-life of our country is familiar with the dainty-looking and somewhat sombreplumaged spotted flycatcher, and most of us have watched it repeatedly darting and circling ...

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... NATURE NOTES IF every bird and eveiy animal in the , British countryside had a birthday party. they would nearly all come in Ala. and that month would prove the social season . ' of our wild life. Fur the countryside now full of nurseries--the high trees ...

... NATURE NOTES. I was right in supposing that Poppyland would be delightful in this splendid weather. They are all saying that it Is the best v.e have had this summer. Long may it continue ! Surely there is part of our land in which the flowers are brighter ...

... NATURE NOTES. THE RIIO OUZEL. There are two species among our British birds that go by tbis ram: of ouzel—the ring ouzeCof the moorlands, and the water ouzel of the rippling streams ; the latter more suitably known now among ornithologists as the dipper ...

... NATURE NOTES For Feminine Fingers Easily Made. Lingerie. 6 .) etrfifiLY lingette.enui.bever so easy to make as It .to,deyl Of course. there are many of who still spend our precious leisure hours. and our even more precious MOW. Puttink in- numerable tiny ...

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... NATURE NOTES. It seems now as though we had got through the bud weather that annually aurprises us the beginning May. We always expect May to uniformly fine, and almost always fails mend till about the middlo the month. The fact ia, of course, that old ...