... NATURE NOTES. Of all our resident species of birds none has a more peculiar indi% iduality or more interesting habits than the water-ouzel, or, as it is better known, the dipper. It is impossible to mistake this bird, which is somewhat less in size than ...

... NATURE NOTES. THE PROTECTION OF RARE BIRDS. That much can be done towards the protection and increase of our rarer birds has been proved this year by the indefatigable efforts of a little band of workers, members of the British Ornithologists' Union, ...

... NATURE NOTES. I (night to have reverted last week ( the .while swallow of Knutsford which I said was probably a bird of the year sod would not seen in this country again I have received the following letter tr„ Mr. T. Jenkins. 3d. Erskme road. Colwl™ ...

... NATURE NOTES. EARLY NESTING OF BIRDS. At this time of the year one constantly sees in different journals letters or notes trcm correspondents recording, as it phenomenal, the early nesting of certain birds, usually the thrush. It is a mistake to think ...

... 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 All Somerset and more is in revolt against my scepticism concerning primroses planted upside down. *’Zoraerzet,” who writes from Plumstead, having left his native county twenty years ago, writes; I had no idea that there was any doubt as ...

... NATURE NOTES. It seems now as though we had got through the bud weather that annually aurprises us the beginning May. We always expect May to uniformly fine, and almost always fails mend till about the middlo the month. The fact ia, of course, that old ...

... NATURE NOTES. STILL we learn. I have always looked upon sparrows as rather 'plebeian, immoral birds, with no accomplishments in the way of graces of flight or engaging manners. But one evening I was on the top lawn, studying the contours of the oaks ...

... NATURE NOTES. Seeing that a single generation sufficed to witness the practical extinction of the American Bison, it is little wonder that the European Bovidae, the European Bison, or Wisent, and the Urus, or Aurochs, disappeared centuries ago, in the ...

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... NATURE NOTES. THE PIED FLYCATCHER. Nearly everybody mho has any interest in the bird-life of our country is familiar with the dainty-looking and somewhat sombreplumaged spotted flycatcher, and most of us have watched it repeatedly darting and circling ...

... NATURE NOTES. Wa use the word Nature with a light heart, but it is a mysterious sort of ideograph, tremendo)ls and appalling. familiarity witn Arturo does not breed contempt; it breeds amazement and a wondering reverence. And what a phenomenon is man; ...