... NATURE NOTES. J month of silent beauty, for j the flowers are making a uunderful display. but die birds utter scarcely al note. What a mari-elluus thing it is that the loirtis and are at their best at different times of the year, for the all-round naturalist ...

... NATURE NOTES IF every bird and eveiy animal in the , British countryside had a birthday party. they would nearly all come in Ala. and that month would prove the social season . ' of our wild life. Fur the countryside now full of nurseries--the high trees ...

... NATURE NOTES QUERIES. HEATHER. Just now the heaths and moorlands are 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. The water shrew is one of the lesser-known Dritish mammals, a wild creature with which ot one person in a hundred thousand has any acquaintance. Yet it is far from being so rare as some people imagine, and along the banks of many streams ...

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

... NATURE NOTES. Baby birds have a never failing fascination to the children. A boy may only be restrainea with difficulty from stealing the eggs from a nest, but even the roughest countyy lad will be happy in protecting a nest of young birds from other ...

... NATURE NOTES. The Rookery adjoining Streatham Common is no great distance from human habitation, yet the sound of an owl screeching in the darkness gives one a sense of isolation almost beyond description. The scream of the owl is uncanny even in so populated ...

... NATURE NOTES The Downs. The North and South Downs of Southern Engiand contribute many happy hours to our holiday recollections. Such seaside resorts as Eastbourhe, Brighton, and Worthing owe much of their charm to easy access to the sheltering downs To ...

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... NATURE NOTES. THE PLATYPUS. ‘ieek I want to tell you about a very queer an mai which lives in Austra• lie. There are many odd animals in Australia, hut I think this must be about the queerest.. . . The duck-billed platypus is an egglaying mammal ulcich ...

... NATURE NOTES A fortnight ago I dealt in these mitre v. it h thr poisonous British snake the adder. Within a week of that being published, no fewer than three instanees were reported in the daily of people being made seriously ill io this vmuntry hr imake•bite ...

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