... NATURE NOTES. PRESERVATION OF SPECIES IN FISH. Tt is cry curious to note how nature assists in an almost autoinatic manner in the preservation of a species by making those creatures that are especially exposed to danger and risk of annihilation, and those ...

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... NATURE NOTES. THIS PUFFIN. Fresh May to Au test on many suitable cliffs and steep grassy ol►es around the British coast the puffins are to be observed in con:l:less numbers, sitting upright on the rock ledges side by turning their heavy beaks inquisitively ...

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... NATURE NOTES. THE MARTEN. The pine-marten is the largest representative of the British Mustelinae, or weasel family, that still survives in the wildest and most remote districts. There is ample evidence that it was in remoter times common in every part ...

... NATURE NOTES. SOME EXTRAORDINARY BEAKS. The bill of a bird plays a very important part in very earl life. For some time before the chick is hatched a small whitish lump forms beneath the skin of the tip of the upper beak, which gradually develops until ...

... NATURE NOTES. NOVEMBER THE. WEST COUNTRY. To :now the autumn days in the West Country, the late Octo- ber and the early November days, with their extremes of variation. is to understand the luxuriant growth and the verdure of the mossy undergrowth that ...

... NATURE NOTES. The crocodilian group, which includes alligators and crocodiles, is the highest type of the reptilians, and marks a distinct advance from the lizards. The two great groups of vertebrates, mammals and birds, are warm-blooded creatures—i.e ...

... NATURE NOTES. THE AUTUMN MIGRATIONS. Quite a month has now elapsed since the commencement of the autumnal or southerly movement of our migratory birds. The purely insectivorous birds ate the lust to move, and by the end of last month the great majority ...

... NATURE NOTES. THE GRASSHOPPER. During the hot summer days of July and August there is hardly any other insect with which e arc so familiar in our rambles through the country as the grasshopper. We hear it every. where, its peculiar, faint, chirping noise—a ...

... NATURE NOTES. THE PEREGRINE FALCON. It is very usual to hear this bird spoken of as the peregrine, but, though nowadays used to denote this one species, it was not always so, and the use of the term is also wrong grammatically. for the word peregrine ...

... NATURE NOTES. THE RABBIT. The constant warfare that is going on at the present day between mankind and the gregarious littia rabbit for mastery in the pastoral lands wherever it has been introduced is but a repetition of a long series of struggles that ...