... NATURE NOTES, Most of my readers will have beard or read soak,. of the tales that have tome from the (mat about the rat plague. I have waited very patiently to hear the facts from someone who had actually seen these great big rats. The opportunity ran* ...

... 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. I have this week been informed be Mr. Bond, New Rent, Hatton-in.the-Yorest, that a very good specimen of the common fond leas killed by • mowing nischine. It rather curious that this aolitary bind should have been in the hayfield, but, ...

... NATURE NOTES. At the Summer Islands, lillapoul. Roe-•hire, a large seal ramrine um 2,u. has been shot by as Island Revenue olff_er. That Scotch exciseman belongs to the breed who, when happy, want W out and day something. • • • AN ARTFUL SNAKE. Seeing ...

... NATURE NOTES. This year we have had what is known as a green thrilltollB. Some people prefer a white Yuletide as more in keeping web the AMOCO . It is junk as well, however, that we have no say in the matter and have to take the weather as it comes. The ...

... Nature Notes. Rooks and jackdaws w. I awl told. playing havoc among potato crops in some quert.••• this on. Ronk, when kept within propor hounds. are useful birds, but at the prtstent day they are far Pio °unman, and am at Pines very troublearse ...

... NATURE NOTES. SEARS 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 streaau trodden into good trails by these great animals, but the swampy places ...

... NATURE NOTES. ENGLISH CRAYFISH. Schemes for the restoration of nrayilsh to tribe. tariee of tho Thames, from whir* they have totally disappeared, owing to the crayfish disease, are,. the county Gentlemen understands,entertained by some of the proprietors ...

... NATURE NOTES. The first occasion on which sandinartins were seen in the Penrith district, so far as I know, was on Tuesday, 4th April. These birds—four in number—were observed on the outskirts of the town by Mr. Joseph Irving, gardener, who assures me ...

... NATURE NOTES. TRIUNE CROP. A remarkable sight is to be seen in the garden of Mr. Dumbrill, London-road, Burgess Hill. A pear tree bloomed in the early spring, the blooms set, and there was a crop of pears. It bloomed again, and there was a second crop ...

... NATURE NOTES. AM INSECT PLAGUE. As a result of the excessive wet weather of last year we are destined to suffer a plague of gnats. Midges and such-like insects spend the earlier stages of their lives in the water; and, as a general rule, they do not multiply ...

... Nature Notes Although we Ore little more than l'a!f-way through the winter, ',steely • day passes ii 'thine beano ' . tidings of the I'olllllg spring. Hold soot reign almost, in full tong, and for such a seedo bind his voiee is wieekirfully loud and clear ...