... NATURE NOTES BIRD NOTES.-I the 180 species of birds that , an properly be called British 36 are summer visitors. They arrin here in spring to breed. and depart in late summer or early .iutumn to winter in mme sunnier clime; Attics. India, China. and parts ...

... Nature Notes. Ou Monday morning an owl alighted oot of a Imuse at Aberystwyth. soon several jackdaw, gathered um made an attempt to drive the owl away. Being unsuceessful they flew away, leaving the owl in quiet posse,sion. This unusual incident in the ...

... NATURE NOTES. The two wild species of pansy are the common heart's-ease and the mountain pansf. The former is abundantly met with almost throughout Britain, while the latter, though common on the bills of dcotland and Wales, and the northern parts of ...

... Nature Notes. It in many a year since the Primrose and the Anemone lia‘e blostiomett so profusely as they do this season. The lanes in the Vale of are gilded a ith the flowers of the former, and the margins of the streams :mod the woodlands are lit up ...

... NATURE NOTES. September ushers iL tho season cif allots and mellow fruitfulitess:' The tree,s are beginning to change coiner, and the fledge, are brightened. with a profusion of scarkt berries, of Ztipe. haws, homersuekles, meontain a viburnum. and Ission ...

... NATURE NOTES. The little ('l. if-chaff returned. though the country is yet under the spell of a blackthorn winter. It was seen on Friday in the Yetwyth Valley near Llanfarian: and at the beginning of the near the Bowl. ing flreen in Plascrug. Do know ...

... Nature Notes, The Willow Warbler. Willow Wren, and the Sand Martin were observed near Aberystwyth on April 3rd. The dates ort•which thaw were Maerved the last two years were: 111(low 'Wren: 1924. April I:sth; 192.1. April lfith,• Sand 'Martin: 1924. April ...

... Nature Notes. Th. Whertear, 'ono of the earliest. if nut the first, of the summer migrants to arrive our shores, IVIP4 seen at Aberystwyth at the of last week. Tbe bright flower-beads of the Colt's-foot. like miniature Dandelions, are beginning to star ...

... NATURE NOTES. VL-BIRD6 01 THE WEEK. Every week the chorus of birds' sellge Swells. louder, as new voices join hi th res hes, eirattiue.hes,' hedge-sparioss, tits, wrens and golden-crested), greenfinehes, and yellow-hionmers are inking their parts in the ...

... Nature Notes. Notwiihstandimr the growing campaign in the presi against nob*. of sill sorts. there is one we sadly miss already—that of the swift, which made the summer air yibrart with its shrill cry. These birds have already wheeled south Warde to seek ...

... Nature Notes. Two nay plants—the Bog Pimpernel and lsy-Leased Bell-Flower--eonsidered to be among the benutiful of British planta, grow in abundance in certain moist plows@ North Cardiganshire. The delicate. pale pink flowers of the are relatire'y large ...

... Nature Notes. The incessant rain of the past weeks brought a tooth of autumn into the air; and the Hawkweeds are blossoming in the aftermath even before the hay has been carted in. This is no year for the Heather; but the Meadow Sweet has seldom been ...