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... NATURE NOTES. Danunm ar AmxAU. Thai, plant which animal, bo dsamt aa the cwtor-oil plant. A. goat will imthar than eat it, and awn that destroyer everything green, the loouat, will not laeA upon it. Lnmnss Tuna. Forests of laafleaa tree# ar. to be found ...
... NATURE NOTES. Tn Stom*. Four atorka, ood liberated by ornitholo«ie»l _ aociety in Pnueia, bare been onpturea ana exanuned in the Tranaraal. Tbey bad down about fi.Boo milea. Hitherto it bad baaa believed that European atorka never migrated beyond the ...
... NATURE NOTES. How Snnm Kills. It may said that the perfection • stineing-apparatua la found, without doubt, in the serpent-tribes. In poisonous snake discover two hollow, or grooved, teetn (n), often capable being erected lowered in the month, and springing ...
... NATURE NOTES. A Em. The strangest find of recent date is that of an egg measuring 33 inches in length and 26 inches in girth, with capacity of two Cone or 160 times that of the ordinary ’a egg. One could scarcely call it breakfast egg. It is the production ...
... NATURE NOTES. Writing from Winton, Pencaitland, • COM. spondent sends to the Beeman an interesting account of a very specimen of the great grey shrike or butcher bird (Lanium excubiter). which be saw the other day. Aa as J. H. could out, it was • male ...
... NATURE NOTES. SLACK • MITL Whilst most fruit - growers affected ham been despairing over the ravages of this pest, to the extent of making the Board of Agriculture for an Act of Parliament against it, and vetting Board to afford help by telling all that ...
... NATURE NOTES. Tint Ease. The smalleat bird in the world i* tb. famous “fly-eater of Cnba. Tet it is the Mexican humming bird which is said to lay the smallest egg—one scarcely larger than the head of a pin. A. Wonderful Lake. Giles County, Virginia, ...
... NATURE NOTES. ADMIT Routs. Some interesting information about melee is given by • writer in the Field, who quotes the experiences of an old mole-catcher. Regarding the food of moles, be states they live upon worms, beetles, and the blanched roots of gram ...
... NATURE NOTES. SCARCITY OW WARPS. Everybody has been remarking this summe ow the scarcity of wasps, and tisane has heel a general sense of relief in the country ths this is the case, although few people Appes to have considered the cause of this scarcit ...
... NATURE NOTES. THE MOLE CATCHER. Lest winter the mole catcher was making little fortune out of the fashion of the moment. Fouruence, and in some cases much as sixpence was (the “Draper” says) paid for the skin of every “little gentleman in black.” Now ...
... NATURE NOTES. Tabsusb. The Tarsier very rarely mm. being nocturnal. These little creatures from the Malay Islands hop about the trees in search of insecte. Their large eyes, beentifnl fnr, end peculiar thin tufted tail ere marked features. They ere smeller ...
... nature notes. ABOUT BLACKBERRIES, Viwatable Trades “Fruit, Flower, and Yegeian .. w Journal ’’wmits to know why the coma* berry has not been improved toe tivation grnter _• commerce sfc l l . i.‘^- tween, wo say the waves ran mountains “‘gb, but toe highest ...