... NATURE NOTES. BIRDS 11 An annual nightingale competitive held in various of Japan. The feature of this quaint recreation is to bring together some tame nightingnles of melodious voice, according to the accepted standard of tb• connoisseurs, and to let ...

... NATURE NOTES. In a disguising or protecti‘e resemblance in the appesrance of the mimic, either to tie goo,ral character of surroundings or ne,ii.ci.jeriai features of them. In oar litme trution we chow specimens of the stick bisect' . Their in form to ...

... NATURE NOTES. AT ALL Animal life at all depths in the ocean, but vegetation will not thrive at great proSAUTCI. SINCIMO !waters. Amono natural curiosities of Japan its singing insects. The most prised of tiny musicians is a black beetle named ausumushi ...

... NATURE NOTES. TWU Electrical energy has some resuite, a telegraph linesman. For instance, woodpeckers are continually tapping telegraph poles. In the country you will IDA poles everywhere honeycombed by the sturdy bills of these birds, which mistake ...

... NATURE NOTES. Banded with orange an black, the bury. itig beetle would attract attention apart from d. curious and useful habit a burying quderground any dead mouse or small bird flat it may happen to find. The task. ste , l dermal of them beetles are ...

... NATURE NOTES. WAILS Ifrus OF BIRD& Hosts of starlinp Add skylarks cross the North lies each year, literally in For days and days twitter, lock after lock, in unbrokea succession, speed °awards; square miles of birds like flakes of @sow in a drifting storm ...

... NATURE NOTES. 9roale or The frog has, like the camel. the power of storing up moisture, which enables it to through timae of drought which would ot he r. prove fatal. A GUTS BIRD. The only venomous bird known is the death bird of New Guinea. The bit ...

... NATURE NOTES. CHIATCII. the migratory crab of the West Wilts is the only creature that ts born in the sea, attains maturity iu water, and puses its adult life on the land. The biggest spider to be found in England lives largely on the water. It is called ...

... NATURE NOTES. PI.ASTIP AND WATIII. Something closely akin to latellirnc• is exhibited be plants. If, during • dry season, • bucket of water be placed near • growing prumpkia, for example, in the course of a few dare the vegetable will turn towards it ...

... NATURE NOTES. SBA SALT AND PLANT LEAVE& Plants growing near the ma thickor than those growing inland. Apparently the salt is the cause of this phenomenon, as plants cultivated in artificially. salted soil yield thicker ...

... NATURE NOTES Two Palk! OV Fishes been discovered in °statewide with two pairs of eye.. pair does duty above water and the other below, the Ash thus beias able to see equally well in two Notaas MAT It is • curious fact that there ars pertain kinds of noises ...

... NATURE NOTES. DUCILLINO AND A strange cue which scum contrary to all the laws of nature hu been reported. A man An the neighbourhood of Dies, Norfolk, had • ban hatching out some ducks' eggs, and at the time when they should have come ol he found some ...