... powers such wonderful things have been related, but he has failed every : attempt to teach them anything beyond their natural notes ; j and he thinks lie has proved beyond contradiction that the English Starling is the true Mot'kkg Bird, Chagford.—An ...

... stillness reigns around. The ploughman's team, the thresher's Hail, The woodman's axe, their clamours cease, And only nature's notes prevail, To humble bosoms echoing peace. * The Sabbath bell ! the Sabbath bell! How sweet ears devout it falls; While ...

... y occurs. The kingfisher ha 3 suffered from three wasting causes, flyfishing, famine, and finery, observes a writer in Nature Notes. As to the first, a curious Nemesis befalls him. As he has caught fish in his life, his dead feathers, made into artificial ...

... Home Office to cable its ‘instructions for the detention of Deeming, should this be requisite. Mr. G. C. Green records in Nature Notes for April a curious reminiscence with regard to a pair of jackdaws kept by him at M odbury Vicarage, South Devon, about ...

... as extern pupils, and any backed by the British r would be favourably welcomed. It is to be feared (says a writer in “ Nature Notes”) that the great and growing passion for golf is working unfavourshly to the of some of our most interesti wild flowers ...

... personal associations—the noble lord having for a time served his country in her ' Majesty's Navy. Viscount Sidmouth ' naturally notes with satisfaction the steps which, arc being taken, none too early, strengthen our position the Mediterranean. has often ...

... and it a mooquestion whether in some waters larg. trout, should systematical!; destroyed. Many Dartmoor fishermen —say: Nature Notes —are favour of killing them. They say that fish their stream lib 21b weight are hardly ever eaugh by ordinary means, and ...

... Bacon certainly directed the laying out the garden in 1598—16QP, planting elms and quick-set hedges, and nowadays, says •Nature Notes, ' one hesitates before saying that .there is .anything he did not do, from writing Shakespeare's plays downwards; but ...

... the community it ' tl ii.' lth - 'liere is'no the inhabitants ought ~* ri«t T- lUBStimab, « benefit to tbe C \ hird ' as Nature Notes no e for corn or any ,Q f* P - but spends its time in »u'n° ,^' ,s insects upon the '°r B a barß existence f is , running ...

... of the hill in which that home is made. Some curious instances with regard to his habits these respects are given in ' Nature Notes- a small patch nettles within few feet of the mouth of the foxes' earth a partridge placed her nest. brought off her brood ...

... hours were spent in gazing the broad expanse of the Bristol Channel, drinking its beauties with all the fervour ot his nature, noting the ever-changing lights and colours, the subtle play sunshine and shade. Particularly impressed was he by its vastness ...

... thougiht that they would see no more. When the weather began to be cold and stormy, in October, the gull—says a writer in Nature Notes —returned as tame ever, coming to the dining-room window, and boating on the glass with its beak, to ask for its breakfast ...