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... NATURE NOTES. The Tragedy of Migration. The easterly winds that hare harshly prevailed daring: the paat week have brought a fresh army of winter migrants from the Continent. The tragedies connected with the migration of birds twice a year are scarcely ...

... NATURE NOTES. Building and Breeding. Before the present month is out the latest of onr spring migrants will hare arrived, the Spotted Flycatcher, who generally oomes last, being dne about the 20th. This is the great breeding mcnth, and the amateur naturalist ...

... NATURE NOTES. The chrysalis which correspondent tend* tie from Lowestoft that of one the butterflies, thoufeh it not a normal typo of one the commoner >nes. In fact, it seems most like the blackveined white is usually supposed to be nearly extinct in ...

... NATURE NOTES. Incidental Natural History. Tho look education the rudiments of natural history is constantly cropping up in tho details of journalism •where the science is not precisely point. Even in such cases, course, accuracy is better than eoror, ...

... NATURE NOTES. A thorn tree in a front garden on one of the busiest of South London roads has been stripped to very last leaf caterpillars. A second look at the house behind reveals the fact that it is empty. People in rood do not appear to lie very attentive ...

... NATURE NOTES Palm,’* the willow catkins are cver>w'here called, came time for its Sunday, early as the day was this year. Every third tree or had broken into gold yesterday, and early humble-bees, as well the workers of the hive, were ing music among ...

... nature notes. I have received a long lotter from Mr. Drysdale Turner, whoso theory the origin warbles in cattle I discussed few weeks There no theory at all, writes about the life cycle of the American heel j flv (Hypodorma lineata); it has proved by ...

... 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. 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. I (night to have reverted last week ( the .while swallow of Knutsford which I said was probably a bird of the year sod would not seen in this country again I have received the following letter tr„ Mr. T. Jenkins. 3d. Erskme road. Colwl™ ...

... NATURE NOTES. The Puma and Mao. The American lion regarded a* a much leas interesting: am than the king of the the old world, but if the Kronen told of him Mr. his book, “The Naturalist La Plata, are regarded as the whole truth, ho ha« boom oomsiderablj ...