... NATURE NOTES. How Tumsty Praxts Ger WATZR. In the arid regions of Egypt, a French botanist has found roots twenty times a 3 long as the part of the plant above the surface. On some of these desert plants the same observer has moticed a very curioud m ...

... NATURE NOTES., Geruax Ostricm Famw. The ostrich farm founded three years ago by Mr. Hagenbeck near Hamburg is growing rapidly in immunoe as velFal size. It was fir. Hagenbeck's theory that the ostrich, although a native of got countries, would thrive i ...

... NATURE NOTES, | THe GUILLEMOT. This somewhat odd-looking bird is perhaps better known as the * foolish gumeum, » and is also, in some places, called the willock, or tinkershere. It is one of the commonest of the species, and is met with in the tideway ...

... NATURE NOTES, Tas Droxco. A “racquet-tailed drongo” an Tndiam bird, which imitates the song of almost every other bird and the voices of animals from doge to donkeys, has been presented to the Zoo. This name was given to the bird bv the Franco-Dutch ...

... NATURE NOTES, Fuy CaTcHERS. Wasps are the bitterest enemies thst flies have. It is said a wasp will kill one thousand flies a day. Power Frox WeLis. The Artesian wells of South Dakota are used to develop electricity as well as to irrigate the prairie ...

... NATURE NOTES. Woxoow Paxes or Oyster SHELLS. On the West Coast of India is found » species of oyster whose shell consists of a pair of roughly circular plates, about six inches in diameter, - These plate are thin and white, They can be, and are, used ...

... NATURE NOTES. SmortT AND Loy Lives, It has just been computed that the day fly lives ;J, bours; the May fly six weeks: the but.teletwo months, as, alas, also does the flea; the fly three to four months; the ant, the ericket and the bee one year each the ...

... NATURE NOTES, A WrwoLess Bisp. There are still in New Zealand in considerable abundance, three birds of the moa kind, though on a comparatively diminutive scale. These are the two varieties of Kiwi or Apteryx, differing strikingly in the two islands; ...

... NATURE NOTES. The crew of the steamer S(yrh fecently captured a shark in the Suez Canal. When the fish was opened they were horrified to find a man’s E:ad, three straw hats, two fowls, and a large quantity of bomes. The shark, 14ft. long, weighed 8001 ...

... NATURE NOTES. Poxp 1™ A Prant. g In British Guiana a plant is fourd called * Heliamphora Nutans.” It grows in marshy ground, and is nhnped so that centipedes, ete., crawling over 1t fall dowm into a cuplike receptacle oontahi:g water, and are drowned ...

... _ . . NATURE NOTES, A Currovs Fisd, “Peter's Beaked Fish™ ig 8 mative of fropical Africa, aud is so uamed because of the elongation of the lower juw into a Mf:,i appendage, thus forming a” beak. The is dark brown in colour, with two light brand-like markings ...

... NATURE NOTES. — A Romix’s Home. A robin recently took up its abode in a florist shop in the main street of Leicester. It flies in and out of the shop during the day, roosts in a basket hanging from 'lO ceiling, and takes grapes from tEe hands of the ...