... interesting case of a wild rabbit living in an almost tame condition is recorded by Helen J. Murray in the current number of Nature Notes, the Selborne Society's magazine. Mrs Paul, a fisherman's wife, living in a hut between Ardna- hem Farm and the mouth of ...

... his garden to sec his featbered friends. Among friends so privileged was Mr Jame3 Startin, who talis the readers of Nature Notes that the blackbirds,1 thrushes, tits, sparrows, pigeons, &c., would hover about the kind old gentleman, perch on his and ...

... A TALKING CANARY. A lady correspondent of Nature Notes, while staying recently in the little village of Churchill, Somerset, heard a talking canary. The bird belong,-5 to a Mrs Buckland, wife of a gardener living in Churchill. Joey came into her possession ...

... A DOG STORY. A Cumberland norreepondonfc, writing to Nature Notes, vouches for the correctness of this delight- ful little dog ,tory:-A farmer, who lives somo miles from Carlisle, went to market by tram. Somehow his dog failed to enter the carriage. It ...

... never went to any religious his later years. Mr Stead's new book about Chicago is beíDI boycotted in America. A writer in Nature Notes argues that have a sense of humour. It was the dictum of Goethe, Whoever to me must be invisible. It is said that the ...

... where those birds have been destroyed, have done an enormous amount of damage to land and crops. In a recent tissue of Nature Notes it is statod that cr.e nest of hawks will destroy no less tli.ui 10,000 r.tts and mice in the course of three months. ...

... recently been detected in the enjoyment of 'this gay and fastive practice. In this month's magazine of the Selborne Society, Nature Notes, evidence on the subject is collected which seems to place this entertaining feature beyond doubt. Dr. Japp declares that ...

... MUSIC AND MICE. A nice little animal story is given in this month's Nature Notes, which raises the interest lug question whother mice have a fondness for music. It is contributed by a musician, who says:—One evening I was somewhat startled at hearing ...

... in our copses on summer evenings. Mrs Brightwen, a lady who has had pets among all manner of wild creatures, writes in Nature Notes about a tame bulbul which has become very much at home with her. He came from Egypt, and is rather bigger thau a robin ...

... SPIDER SWALLOWING ITS WEB. A correspondent writes to Nature Notes Early in September some friends of mice saw a garden spider (one with white marks on its back) make a web large enough to cover one pane of tfee dining-room window. Ib was a beautiful spider ...

... GOLF AND WILD FLOWERS. It is to be feared (says a writer in Nature Notes) that the great and growing passion for golf is working unfavourably to the preservation of some of oar most interesting wild flowers, especially on sandy sea shores, which are beooming ...

... FROGS IN BIRDS' NESTS. A correspondent relates a curious thing in this month's Nature Notes. We have, says E. A. M. of Marlborough, made a curious) discovery in our garden. Some frogs have taken up their abode for the last month in two deserted blackbirds' ...