... NATURE NOTES. RESPECTING WHALES. belonging to Dundee whaling beet bring ba:k sorry accounts of the Davis Strait) whale fishing. The weather has been very bad. Fog, ice, and snow greatly handicapped the crews in the prosecution of the fisning, And ore ...

... NATURE NOTES. CANADA'S From source to sea the St. is over two thousand miles in length and it to the ocean an amount of water Cl. (waded by no other river on the globe the Ammon. Ordinarily, however, the name of Si. is only applied to the hundred miles ...

... NATURE NOTES. FAIT GR.,wrgo rams. or trees grow fast. There is one in Florida which shot up forty feet in four years, and another in Guatemala, which grew 120 feet in twelve veers. This eorresponds to a rise of ten feet a year, or nearly one foot per ...

... NATURE NOTES. our OF DOORS. The golden plover is on the wes.ern shores of Engl.uid. The skylark sad rtbin still continue tessusg, the jay to call in the depths of the woods, the owls to make the nights hideous with their hooting'. Tlw caterpillar of black ...

... NATURE NOTES. USEFUL FLOWERS. flowers that cet as for thole who have by obsersatioa studied their ways and habits, and so punctual are they that labouring men in some oeunteies tell from them when the hour for dieser and leaving wort has coin', while ...

... NATURE NOTES. PUFFINS AND RABBITS. A state of thingm now prrvails on U. Farm. Wands. Last year tram. Darling's broth. r stated that, when be was • on the imlands, rabbits were many and puftimi few. That was ties order of nature: hut the Bird Protection ...

... NATURE NOTES. Th. boaey-bird at South is shoat the of a sperrow, and hot a shrill. hissing cry, with which it attracts the attention 01 whom it conducts to trees. sonamimew miles away, where the honey of wild bees is stored. the store of the bees is broken ...

... NATURE NOTES. A SEASON OF PROMISE. . Weems; I/bethink', wood-oisitamee and sesta, with ogp. have • teller la the °Deily (horde) been vegorled hem in minds t no who Isiloresi is a era t• u soodimeasd opelag Plan sod rodaseastVallandilioesen Asperlot. ...

... NATURE NOTES. or SWALLOWS. Whether birds—espedally migratory ..-taturn to the same aftts year after !I it question of Rauch Miercat to the naturalist. Swallows that summer in England do not wittier north of Africa, but as obeerver at High Hidden. Kent ...

... NATURE NOTES. MIGILATIIX The migration of the is wonderful sight which ins, be seen every year in Central America. The insects, towards end of June, cross the isthmus of and for a week or more, in untold millions, they put out to ma. They a dazzling cloud ...

... NATURE NOTES , THE WEASEL'S TENACITY. lii liolmbash. Brunswick. a raven was a/- tacked by a weasel on the gnomd. The bird u off, hut the weasel Muck to it. hack, and after a ~tort sigh both fell down kiloliter. The raven was dead, but the weasel unhurt ...

... NATURE NOTES. Lis WAWA. • 'Solling closely /skin to is exhibit-II be plants. If. during a sews. • bucket of water be placed near growing pumpkin. sea . Ia lb. . amuse at lti daes towards it. • get st least oiss in the water. Taor? Two Norm. A brook trout ...