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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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' ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 PLAGUE OF BLAWIBINOS. The following a from letter this indents Nature Notes :- As I sit pennies thew 130101 a blackbird comes within stoat three yetris of the shadow peclung at moms hell npe plum: About Wt the crop her already disappeared. 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. ...
... interesting now to know the Duke's idea of the respective merits of the choristers of North and South Wales. A writer in Nature Notes has teen protesting, none too soon against the disfigurement of the summit of Snowdon by the erection of buildings and ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...