... NATURE NOTES. A PERFECT MARCH DAY. A perfect English March day is like no otkee day in the year, so full is it of promise hope. The air is cold, but the sun is hot. no slues have a blueness that is March's alone; flowers are more treasured this month ...

... NATURE NOTES. fSVBOIAILT COMTIXBITTID.] misfortune take my holidays when the tides are somewhat unfavourable to the odQoctkm of eeashore spociinena. richest region for the naturalist is that which borders * what is called the aone, which can only Approached ...

... NATURE NOTES. MALAYAN TAPIR. This is the largest of el the tapirs. It is black sad white in colour. It frequents tbe dense forests where water is found, in which it delights to bathe sod wallow is the mud to keep sway tbe flies, and also to escape its ...

... NATURE NOTES. BIRCH AND CO. SPECIAL OFFER OF CYCLES- £4 10s. Od. PLATED TWO INVERTED LINED FRAME _ j i A\T4 l 7 # B. - - ' ...

... NATURE NOTES. GOOSANDER AND LITTLE AUK NEAR BIRMINGHAM. THE OUCKOO. Though the list casual bird visitors has been smaller far this winter than was last year, several interesting records were obtained, particularly daring the late autumn months of 1912 ...

... NATURE NOTES. THE FOLKLORE OF TREES. Of all our trees there is none, perhaps, to which more folklore attachea than the common ash, though it is run very close by the mountain ash or rowan. As in the case of the elder, it is unlucky to cut down a young ...

... NATURE NOTES, A GOOD WORD FOR THE FIELD VOLE. CoNrnrurrED. ] In dealing with lb© statue of birds last w?'ck I remarked that their destructive otherwise depended very largely on distribution and local circumstances. Birds which arc vegetarians will eometim-s ...

... NATURE NOTES. from four rerj vith reqneflt that I would inform him what they were. Two of them «ro about the and shape fairly large potato, but are of distinctly woody nature, and have a beautifully polished Tory tody striated after the manner the inner ...

... NATURE NOTES A CUCKOO'S TRAGIC END. An interesting occurrence in bird life is reported from Poleshill. A few weeks ago a pair of yellow wagtails built their nest in a field of mowing grass by the side of the railway, and when the full complement of eggs ...

... NATURE NOTES. THE JOBBING GARDENER. For the sake of both vegetation and peace of mind, it is frequently as well to lave the garden in the sole charge of its rightful sovereign, the gardener. In which case the latter will make the most of it, according ...

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... NATURE NOTES. [6t>oxai.x.t Co»t»xbttt»d.] Rome «f Birmingham canal* afford intoileting for the ctodent Nature. There is eaoeedinglj pleasant hetwoen and Soilhull, and a walk along the towing-path during the when the swallow* And martins arc skimming the ...