... NATURE NOTES. ichneumon dies are of all sines. They have long slender hodie. and constantly quivering antennae, and are rather teflon s looking insects. abound in gardens where they are always ' l r rr b y e Zsg into flowers and running up and down the ...

... NATURE NOTES London Birds : The Starling. TN LONDON it is very difficult toappre- A date the beauty of the Starling. It is so often sooted and covered with dirt that the glory of the birds' lovely metallic plumage is hidden. But watch a fine male bird ...

... NATURE NOTES QUERIES. Novama The nature-lover who, on a November mornlag. ventures on to Use marshes does well to encase his lower limbs In a pair of water-tight marsh boots, for long after sunrise he will find the tall marsh thistles, withered swamp ...

... NATURE NOTES QUERIES. THZ CHRISTMAS TRORX. This is the name by which the holly Is commonly known in Germany, on account of Its association with the Ch.ietinas festival. One of its old English names was holm, and there are many place-names in various ...

... NATURE NOTES AND QUERIES. Tea Chttont or Paiumresc Haw re Bons. A few weeks ago comment was made In eels column on the fact that it is a far from rue occurrence for birds of different species, such as pheasants and partridges, gulls and eider duck', great ...

... NATURE NOTES The squirrels of Regents Park are familiar to every Londoner, and we have come to consider them as our own. The species 3 abundant there is, however, the American grey squirrel. introduced Into this country by the Duke of Bedford not so very ...

... NATURE NOTES Wild Birds in January TANITARY. the first month of the year, also marks the real beginning of the new generation of many wild birds. It is the month in which so many birds change their plumage. and mate. It is the month when so many nests ...

... NATURE NOTES A Surrey Waterside Hike Surrey is conspicuously deficient in waterside rambles, for the greater part of the county is without rivers or streams of any size. The Thames, forming the northern boundary, and the streams which run into it. provide ...

... NATURE NOTES QUERIES. Ilrarace. Just now the heaths and merlin& ass wearing their loveliest floral garment, for the heather and ling are in full bloom. Both plants are common wherever the soil is suitable and allowed to lie waste; but the ling is perhaps ...

... NATURE NOTES QUERIES. Pow Camino Al ♦ &STAMM A perusal of Canon Alegar's delightful life end estimate of the poet Crabbe reminds me that (*abbe, more than any other poet of his day. found a knowledge of botany of great assistariee to him when he was writing ...

... NATURE NOTES QUERIES. AUTUMN MIGIPANTS. By the time this week's notes are in the readers' hands it will not be too soon for field naturalists to be on the look-out for early autumn migrants.though it will be some weeks before our winter bird visitors ...

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