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... NATURE NOTES. HOOKING AN The Kirkcudbrightshire Adevruser reports that while angling the ather . day on the Fleet, at Gatehouse, lfr, R.,H. itacactom, Liverpool, bad a singular experience, in' which' he bttke Ms rod and lost his strange fish. Gliding ...
... NATURE NOTES THE ABBOTBSURY SWANS. There are more than a thousand swans at Abbotabury, living • perfectly natural life, and none of them pinioned. The result is (says the County Gentleman ) that the visitor sees, what it is not possible to see on the ...
... Nature Notes. In answer to many inquiries about the white lapwing whiqh was bred in the Penrith district last summer, I may state that it left its haunt, with the teat of • flock at the approach of the 'Miry weather in November. It is, however, expected ...
... NATURE NOTES. According to promise I will give a few details anent those two harbingers of summer whose timely arrivals were recorded in the Herald on Saturday last. The cuckoo was both heard and seen near the railway bridge not far from Milestone House ...
... NATURE NOTES. BEARS THAT MAKE ROADS. The best road-maker in Alaska, according to an Alaskan guide of many years' experience, is the brown bear. Not only are the banks of the streams trodden into good trails by these great animals, but the swampy places ...
... NATURE NOTES. TO ATTRACT BEES. If you want the beet to visit your geneu—andl if you know anything of plant life, you will be 'aware that they are a aecresity—invite them by having plants which bear blue blossoms. According to Lord Avebury, they manifest ...
... NATURE NOTES. If there be any truth in the old proverb Many haws, many snows, sic are assuredly in for an old-fashioned winter. Thrushes and blackbirds are having a glorious tines among the hedgerows iust now, and by and by the squirrels from the n ...
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... NATURE NOTES. WHIN TRi L071817.R MOULTS. Below is a sketch of a lobster's claw. which explains how the lobster, wishing to shed its shell, withdraws the fleshy part of the big claw through the narrow opening at the base of the limb. In this sketch the ...
... Nature Notes. On Saturday I lied god fortune to come arms • red-bucked alinke, or butcher bird. This migrant ass sitting alone on a therm hedge, and seemed to me to be watching something the ground beneath. I got very near before it lA* tar and hew further ...
... NATURE NOTES. A marked feature of the trade of the week is the fruit markets of the Midlands Las been the bilberry boom. As there is a shortage in the Eng- lish black currant crop the retail fruiterer. bay up the chimp foreign bilberries readily. Grimsby ...
... Nature Notes. The large ntimher of redshanks that have horn in the Peatuith dutriat donna the Wt. fon 'reeks hr attrarteri . And del of attention from wialerits of toed too. It is only during the last few years that these birds have begun to neat in our ...