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... NATURE NOTES Autumn The autumn is now with us and the days are colder —the nights very appreciably so and our summer bird visitors are going or have gone. The swallow family is already greatly depleted in numbers. and our old friend the cuckoo and the ...
... NATURE NOTES. BASKING SHARKS IN IRISH WATERS. Spotted Flycatchers at Castlewellan. POPLAR HAWK MOTH. Apropos the large flsh caught in a net near Torr Head last week are asked If ever in Ireland Basking Sharks (probably the species of the Torr specimen) ...
... NATURE NOTES Flavours and savours (continued) Pepper naturally leads us on to curry, but this powder is by no means all pepper, but Is also a mixture of such spices ground ginger, tumeric, and coriander. I have been told by an Anglo- Indian that most ...
... NATURE NOTES he Swallows (CoDtlnned) Since the publication of my articles on the swallows and swallow-like birds, I am constantly being asked where they go In the winter-time —a phrase which reminds me of the comic song of about twenty-five years ago ...
... NATURE NOTES. HARVEST OF EEU. Over four tons of eels he«B «i»P«cne« from Thorpe, in the Fens, within last few days, to London. They were of a trench being cut the sea order set free the Sped wnter. local fishermen industnously set inter cepting the fish ...
... NATURE NOTES. OUR COMMON BIRDS. The Warblers. We now reach the Sylvida*. or. Warblers, large family confined to the old world, and containing about three hundred species. They are small birds quiet hues, brown, white, and grey being the prevailing colours ...
... NATURE NOTES. BIRDS SS The tradition is that the caged bird which escapes will be killed by the birds of freedom. It is far more certain that a wild bird Introduced into an aviary of domesticated oses will to run the gauntlet. The caged bird thinks a ...
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... NATURE NOTES. Tan Swamln What apsrs to be the smallest known has - ben described in India by Dr. X i kanandais. It is only 1-120th of aa with a spread of wings of 1-30th ofsm end belongs to the Hymenoptera. order including ante, bees, and wasps. It hes ...
... NATURE NOTES. TAPPINO FOR BAP. lodia-rubber trees which are tapped every other day continue to yield asp for mom than twisty years; and it is a curious tact that the oldest sod most frequently-lapped tress produce the richest A BTORK'B LEO. The municipal ...
... NATURE NOTES. A MAMMOTH MUSHROOM. A mushroom meuuriitg lOin. is flirniMitof baa been gathered Urmaton, BEES IM THE LAMP. A swarm of beea took poasaaaion of aigna lamp on the Uidlend line at Fiaedoa, porter having considerable trouble in removing the insects ...