... another musical pussy, who must have been a descendant of the Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle cat have b!>n told in Nature Notes. This was Imp, a big bltxck- r-nd white bom, nine months old. Imp was very partial to the violin performances of an ...

... which the man in the street and the Bank Holiday maker care not a tig. I do not run a natural history corner exactly, but nature notes always appeal to a good number of readers. A correspondent. G. Hutchins, writes I am anxious, to know what has? b$99B9 ...

... 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' ...

... LARKS OR SPARROWS P I Larks are now often in the menu. They make, in truth, a delicate meat, but, asks Nature Notes, is it agreeable with Selbornian feeling to eat them ? They are being consumed by tens of thousands, and are rapidly diminishing in num- ...

... trade deception merited condonation it is surely that where the poulterer or chef seeks to pass off sparrows for larks. Nature Notes regrets the pre- valence of the custom of eating larks and making of them a fashionable delicacy. To destroy wholesale ...

... Why, that's baby s hell, says mather, run and see what is the matter with him. Who's that Knocking? A correspondent of Nature Notes has a funny anecdote to tell of a cloverpoa, Tne other day when we were having lunch we heard a strange scratching sound ...

... following note, signed Country Johnny I beg to inform you that the nightingale was first heard here on the 17th inst. Your Nature notes are always welcome. So I find from other correspondents. + But not for worlds For very obvious reasons I refuse to say ...

... o. Now if I followed my own bent, and took the hints of a host of correspondents who send a chorus of approval of the Nature Notes of this column, I should chat away to the full extent, the last line and the last word on the beautiful country around; ...

... interest. Messrs. Macmillan will publish with the new year “The School World,” a new sixpenny monthly for secondary schools. “Nature Notes” is the bright littie monthly organ of the Selborne Society, the object of which is a diffusion of a love for the study ...

... not afraid of a long distance day after day, are the patient, labo- rious, black policemen of the air,” says a writer in “Nature Notes,” “who, as food fails them inland, at that time of the year make excursions to the and work away on the shore in the yielding ...

... 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 ...

... NATURE NOTES. IKY ARTHI'R MEK. F.R.A.S.] THURSDAY ECLIPSE. R;adrr* who are astir early Thursday inan.ing will the opportunity of observing an eclipse of the sun. It will Mnall certainly, !,ut the only one he kind visible in Wales this yea* - . one-fifth ...