... NATURE NOTES, The Intelligent Parrot. The pet parrot King Henry VIII. must have been quite as sagacious as the Brazilian parrot which kept guard on chickens. On the authority of Goldsmith we learn that it used to perch on the river brink outside the Palace ...

... NATURE NOTES. Cuckoo at Sabden. In and around Sabden bird-song is perhaps its best, and, nesting is in its full swing. Meadow pipits, willow warblers, chaffinches, and bullfinches have eggs, and the cuckoo and corncrake has also been heard. In Ribblesdale ...

... NATURE NOTES. Emotions of Birds, Can any one explain how we come by that somewhat Irish phenomenon, the white blackbird? Great bird lovers declare that birds change the colour of their plumage oftener than imagined, and that curious effects are sometimes ...

... NATURE NOTES. Dogs in Cold Weather. Though by no means a person who approves pampered pets, I should like draw attention in this cold season inconveniences caused dogs by bringing them one moment into heated rooms and finally turning them out into draughty ...

... NATURE NOTES. The Sight Mice. The common expression to see only in front, of your nose seemf to be true of certain animals. I have lately cultivated the acquaintance of a mouse that site by the fireside with me, and helps himself to crumbs in a cautious ...

... NATURE NOTES. Signs of the Season. Falling leaf and fading tree ie the order of the day now in suburban gardens. After the wet comes the sun, and on the heels of these the wind follows. The result is to pluck the leaves from the boughs and to bring ...

... NATURE NOTES. and Fruit. : Among the •>.' outdoor due the uncanny weather, is that blossom and fruit side by side on the same tree. JIts is the ease with a pear tree few miles from Man- Chester, ruddy fruit banging on the same bough as delightful white ...

... NATURE NOTES. The Lengthening Day. The lengthening day the end nf the road looking westward. Towards sunset the pack of gold and crimson clouds daily creeps tether towards the cardinal point. In another rnonth or so the sun will set due west, and aftsr ...

... NATURE NOTES. Partridges Still in Covey. Wandering through the field® this week, see the partridges still in coveys feeding along the hedge hanks, though the season for the shooting of thi® game closed on the Ist inet. noticed one covey oi no less than ...

... NATURE NOTES. Frost and Hollies. The hoar frost your true magician. The other morning it wrought miracles in conjunction with the sun. In the tadows long fight took place before the mists lifted leaving the gaunt ashes and tail . poplars silhouetted against ...

... NATURE NOTES. Cracklings in the Wintry Hedgerow*. The heavy snowfall in the north, the thaw, then the frost, had a peculiar effect the hedgerows along the country highways. They stood like stockades of white coral. The fresh air and the succeeding frost ...

... NATURE NOTES. Lunar Rainbow. rainbow at night Is the shepherd* delight. So bas Wen said, probably for many centuries past, but I do not think these lines refer to a lunar rainbow, which is sufficiently raxoccurrence,in district, at anyrate, to call for ...