... NATURE NOTES. It seems now as though we had got through the bud weather that annually aurprises us the beginning May. We always expect May to uniformly fine, and almost always fails mend till about the middlo the month. The fact ia, of course, that old ...

... NATURE NOTES. There wo* plenty erf excitement .wirterday for tiiexv who like to lean over tiie railings and enjoy tliat protiby little Landand-watcTHcape below the Stxrpcmtaaie Hyde Park. moorhens were fight inr tlwiir own particular quarrels, and two ...

... NATURE NOTES. The Puma and Mao. The American lion regarded a* a much leas interesting: am than the king of the the old world, but if the Kronen told of him Mr. his book, “The Naturalist La Plata, are regarded as the whole truth, ho ha« boom oomsiderablj ...

... Nature Notes. The sixth half-rhlnme of the Natural History of Animals” (The Gresham Publishing Company) has now been published, and eight half-Tolumes will complete the work, an estimate of its value now possible. The rolumea are 7s. each net, and I can ...

... NATURE NOTES. On Sunday b«« came out for good fly round, after having been in bed for almost exactly twenty-eight days. The hive that wa« then in the sun sent out hundreds ef bees at about half-past ten. The other, which the sun does not reach much before ...

... NATURE NOTES. Retaro of tbo Mlcnuits. Mr. W. Tbottos. Hoeerfordwest,, writes: sow three martins this morning (March 29). I have never soon one early our neighhour hood before; I hope hear others in ' Nature Notes* next week.** This not extraordinarily ...

... NATURE NOTES. Mr. G. W. Bulman has contributed to Knowledge very interesting article on How young birds learn to sing. He says that he one© beard one yellow-hammer very obviously teaching another. The master sang the whole well-known strain A very ...

... NATURE NOTES. It m«ay be remembered that two yeare ago 1 wrote about some amrUl carpenter bees boring in the wood of a summerhouse and sealing their Jittle galleries not only with a film that looked like waxed silk, but with tiny flint ©tones stuck on ...

... NATURE NOTES. A few weeks ago the foliage of London’s trees seemed likely to retain its freshness long as tho greenest the countryside. But the rains that have freshened those have failed to the same for our soot-choked elms, even the highly-varnished ...

... NATURE NOTES. An Aspirins I ark. An incident of the past week has drawn altev tion once more to the question ot the heigLt which birds fly. Three Ihtvurinn oJlcers, who were balloon, noticvd at a height ii.OJO feet tiny black speck winch accompany them ...

... NATURE NOTES. The topic this week is the Ncrth and run the risk in mentioning it find* readers dead tired of the subject. Tho one feature of th© topic seems to the way in which facts and fancies have been sought, strained, and even invented in order trip ...

... NATURE NOTES. Id ordinary year it rather early to set. sing-traps January. This year, however, I found artichoke and potato on 3rd, and slicing them into seven pieces in all, laid them along the flower border and among the Alpines, frhe neat morning there ...