... NATURE NOTE Seen in garden on Leigh Hill, near Taunton. September 10th. small squirrel with grey back and tail, red paws and white 'shirt front': and on September 11th large adder, 18-20 inches long. U. M. Edmonds. ...

... NATURE NOTE. need not far away from home 1o study natural history. Here in the town itself, it is all around us. The other day in small garden watched a Greenfinch feed her young. had not done so before and were interested to see that she did as the pigeons ...

... NATURE NOTE. A few day* ago we saw glorious flash colour in the hedgerow os were passing, whiehon closer investigation provedtobeaUcd Backed Shrike or Butcher Bird, it is often colled. The osh grey of his head, rose red his brciist and rich red brown ...

... NATURE NOTE. Most Nature observers concentrate on bird life. They are more friendly, and their habits in consequence more' easily observed. The wild animals in this country are few in number. Hunted and shot at, they have to seek the remote solitary places ...

... NATURE NOTE. Everyone is noticing the decrease in the number Swallows. We ore afraid I hot the gay blues and chesnuts of his plumage are tempting the French milliners and that he is decoyed on his way here and hack again to his African haunts. Also in ...

... NATURE NOTE. Now that the summer is here many of us, kiddies and grown-ups too, will be going down to the seaside. In the sunlit pools transparent water we shall see the beautiful colours of the Sea Anemones. Pinks and greens and torquoisc Hues. How lovely ...

... NATURE NOTE. The wood lay quietly slumbering, a shadow, island set in a waving sea of emerald grass. Suddenly the silence was broken, the stillness of the air brushed aside by rustling wings. From all quarters came the birds. Starlings, Chaffinches, War ...

... A NATURE NOTE. a regular reader of your paper, in which The Countryman writes so charmingly each week of birds, insects, and the . small deer of the countryside, I am moved send you the following note, which I cannot tell how the truth may be; I ...

... Our reader© will notice from announcement in another column that we propose introducing feature into this paper the form Nature Note*?, and we have pleasure in offering Guinea this week for the most useful paragraphs for insertion under that new heading ...

... A Strange Robin Nature Note I have recently seen a tiny about the of a wren. but n*/. having the upturned in general shape like robin. wit'a bark chequered dark brown I:?:* a hedge-sparrow's. and brlgi'i* rod breast like robin's. It appeared several time* ...

... August bare places appeared the backs of the rabbits, and the baldness increased daily. One morning (Bays Mr. M. H. Baker, Nature Note*) a sprightly little baby guinea pig appeared, and in a dark corner of the hutch was found a small nest cosily lined with ...

... $R the and mod in all be amonipanled by the oboe and address at the writer—not sadly pelsheatimi. but ea a of faith. A NATURE NOTE OONFIRINED• To _EDITOR, ' 6WITICIS Tai LASOPOBT & HIALLD. . . Whilst looking through your Saturday's issue I noticed the ...