... Nature Notes. Cock Hatching Chickens. The teary is going the rounds of a Soots dumpy cock (catering chickens. This ia not so unusual as it at first appears. At the present moment I have an old dumpy oock which regularly fader* and feeds the chickens as ...

... Nature Notes Rook. and Crows. On the first Sunday March this mason the rooks did not seem to be concerning themselves much about nest-building at least in the districts in which I was able to observe them; and I noticed what I have frequently noticed ...

... NATURE NOTES. An Inaipet'a Vitality. We tale the following from the current num bar of The Couatryside - : On walking in the fields the other day I men with what at first sight seemed to be • pcculhir and making very awkward movements. . I picked it ...

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... Nature Notes. Sunlight as a Disease Killer. Protean)? Roget in his lecture at the Royal School of Medicine, London, dealt with the curative effects of sunlight on those who go to an altitude to undergo mountain air treatment. for the cure of disease. ...

... NATURE NOTES. I Tit's Nast In a Varnish Bettis. A tit bee built • neat in a gallon varnish bottle and hatched three birds in the grvve of Alexandra Palace, which is weekly visited by thousands of persona Ingress and epee. have been by means of the 11-inch ...

... Nature Notes Some Annum Visitors. It is generally tile middle of April, and sometimes near the end, before the swallow arrives, but this year a couple were seen at Lendslfoot on the 2nd of the month, says 'Double U. Gee. 'lbis is very early for the ...

... _ Nature Notes. Early Songsters. Leaving out of account the dipper, the wren, and ether winter songstgre, one of the first birds to begin singing in the early year, with a view to nesting, is the great titmouee, smite T.M. in the Glasgow 'Times. Hie ...

... —Nature Notes. Japanese Doer. During a recent visit to the s neen district cf Wes-shire I made a special point. of sepsnding day in the fastnesses of Lochrosque. un the off.chance of seeing mutu a l f the Japanese deer which there fi nd a a habitation ...

... Nature Notes.— Negrito*. About fifty years ago some robber gatherers in the forerts of Northern Ecuador reported • peculiar species of palm, which they found In great numbers, whose fruit was a nut resembling in form and colour • miniature head a negro ...

... Nature Notes. United States Pines. There are about thirty-seven pines native to :the United States. of which twenty-five are , western species and •twelve eastern. _:O World's Largest Flower. The largest Hower in the world grows the Island of Mindanao ...

... —Nature Notes.— December Greenery. under those hedgerows where no floret . * aro longer blooming or a. mere old geometer' or half-open dandelion, there is abundance and variety of interept in the vegetation. For while many of the plants have altogether ...