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... NATURE NOTES. Musette Mittioes. The migration of the butterflies weaderftl sight which may be seen every Central America. The insects, toward. June, cross the Isthmus of Panama, sod ' a week or more, in untold millions, they to sea. They snake a dazzling ...

... NATURE NOTES. BIRDS MACHINI CLAWS. When a bird lifts its foot the toes close automatically. This is to prevent the possibility of in bird falling offs perch at night while roosting. The foot ha s an entirely automatic moiewent. When a hen walks you may ...

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... NATURE NOTES, CAZADA'II Oren►? Rms. From source to sea the ISt. Laurence it ever two thousand saes in length and it carries to the ocean an amount of water exceeded by no other river on the globe except the Amason. Ordinarily, however, the name of St ...

... NATURE NOTES. Ftvi Nona. In their feelers ants have live noses, each of which has its own duties to perform. One nese tells the ant whether it is in its own nest or that of an enemy ; another noise discriminates between odours of ants of the same species ...

... NATURE NOTES. Ornithologists assert that some birds, especially sparrows, thrushes, and robins, have ventrinial powers. Birds, when surprised in singing, will be silent for a moment, and Veen give forth a faint song that gee= to some from a distanee, ...

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... NATURE NOTES. E♦T ♦ SNAKI. Grown chickens and young pullets have bees known to eat almost anything that crosses their path, when hungry, but it was supposed that snakes were not included in their dainties, until a pullet finished off a hearty breakfast ...

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... NATURE NOTES. Aristotle's lantern is the to the complicated masticatory apparatus in some sea-archime. It consists of twenty principal pieces arranged into a Ise-sided conical masa, which was composed by Aristotle to a lantern. In the centre dee teeth ...

... NATURE NOTES. THE CHANNEL SWIM. ♦.'OTUEA FAILURE. r Starting from the English side, Jame• listaras. the Aberil • -en swimmer, made • plushy hut attempt to swim the along on baking to give up three mile , from France. Re ens in • state' ▪ collap.e taken ...