... readers. The Story of Masic. Frederick J. Crowest, i* a compact little volume, giving the history music from its orign in nature, noting its development through all the ages down to the present time. The little volume, the author tells os. intended, not for ...

... cuckoo does not build nest of ita own and os how many eggs female lays during a season. True (says Mr. W. P. Westell, in “Nature Notes”), we have this time exploded the altogether erroneous statement that the bird lays its egg* the nest of the species with ...

... THE COLOUR OF THE SEA. The spring is not more limpid than tho water of ocean; it absorbs, says Mrs. Somerville Nature Notes,” *ll the prismatic colours, except that ultramarine, which, being reflected every direction, imparts a hue approaching the aauro ...

... for it. Everyone it so well, of course, that nobody takes the money. Good trick I t'cU'Nspthm 39 Witaon Meet London E C NATURE NOTES AND QUERIES. Bird Migration. The itudj bird migration is so complex and presents so many difficult problems that few o ...

... of new localities for rare plants, and other interesting nature notes will always gladly received and considered. AU communications should be addressed the Editor, and marked outside Nature Notes.” Birds Ireland. —A correspondent draws our attention to ...

... you for past kindness. —Yours. Ac., Canotm* Pin. Knockbreda Park, Belfast, April 10, 1903. GIANTS CAUSEWAY DEFENCE FUND. NATURE NOTES AND QUERIES. Bird Mimics. No British bird a greater ad-pt bird mimicry than the common ittarling. There are few familiar ...

... he or she oblige us by telling us of it The grocer returns the money, of course. Ftlt-Niftha 3, Wilton atteet Lenta SC NATURE NOTES AND QUERIES. Grasshopper Warblers. About the time when this week’s notes come imio the reader’s the strange song of the ...

... new localities for rare plants, and other interesting nature notes will always gladly received and considered. All oommonioationa should addressed to the Editor, and marked outside Nature Notes.* Eoo-foroino.— M N. H. F. writes:— A few days ago paragraph ...

... new localities for rare plants, and other interesting nature notes will always gladly received and considered. All communications should be addressed to the Editor, and marked outside ** Nature Notes.” Train Stopped bt Snails.—There are many cases on record ...

... THE NORTHERN WHIG, MONDAY, APRIL 27, 1903. NATURE NOTES AND QUERIES. Red-n«ek*d Phalaropes and Bearded Titmice. A correspondent who lest year visited the Hebrides telle me that, notwithstanding' the legal protection extended to it, the red-necked phalarope ...

... shilling. There are 8,000,000 families. 8,000,000 shillings a week: a week : Great Britain’s interest in it. itrMt I«o4oa K C NATURE NOTES AND QUERIES. Every spring a few epoonbills are seen on the East of England, generally the mud flat* of Breydon, the estuary ...

... of new localities for rare plants, and other interesting nature notes will always bo received and considered. All oommunicatious should be addressed to tho Editor, and marked outside * Nature Notes.” A correspondent (E.P.) draws our attention to some statements ...