... NATURE NOTES. I (night to have reverted last week ( the .while swallow of Knutsford which I said was probably a bird of the year sod would not seen in this country again I have received the following letter tr„ Mr. T. Jenkins. 3d. Erskme road. Colwl™ ...

... NATURE NOTES. A Delicate Situation. Er is really a delicate situation. The pond is ours: at least we call it ours, but after all our claim is based on a legal postulate which is no more than a fiction. The bird, of the other part, is s wild bird, a mother ...

... NATURE NOTES A N &TORS GLIM. Tit WATS or IrVLDIIO.-90111e of the se-eieted waders, that is, those birds that wade for their food as well as swim, move with the most extraordinary rapidity under the water when on the hunt for food in its varied forms, ...

... NATURE NOTES. Axruan Love. An interesting instance of a dog’s friend. ship with a horse has occurred at Wigton (Cumberland). The horse and dog—the latter a two-year-old retriever—shared the same stable, and the dog, when its friend was taken to the field ...

... NATURE NOTES Palm,’* the willow catkins are cver>w'here called, came time for its Sunday, early as the day was this year. Every third tree or had broken into gold yesterday, and early humble-bees, as well the workers of the hive, were ing music among ...

... NATURE NOTES. EARLY NESTING OF BIRDS. At this time of the year one constantly sees in different journals letters or notes trcm correspondents recording, as it phenomenal, the early nesting of certain birds, usually the thrush. It is a mistake to think ...

... NATURE NOTES. STILL we learn. I have always looked upon sparrows as rather 'plebeian, immoral birds, with no accomplishments in the way of graces of flight or engaging manners. But one evening I was on the top lawn, studying the contours of the oaks ...

... NATURE NOTES All Somerset and more is in revolt against my scepticism concerning primroses planted upside down. *’Zoraerzet,” who writes from Plumstead, having left his native county twenty years ago, writes; I had no idea that there was any doubt as ...

... NATURE NOTES. THE PIED FLYCATCHER. Nearly everybody mho has any interest in the bird-life of our country is familiar with the dainty-looking and somewhat sombreplumaged spotted flycatcher, and most of us have watched it repeatedly darting and circling ...

... NATURE NOTES. the rine of the eoenir.o: an irr,e -rt.& In thetr earth t, , th Ltir.ery, Thee 'prolog up 14:1 I:fe to enjoy Stuc beete•lo! .1110111,—the et ar.ing rho her fl.. 'mil. Site select. the pole ehulhe stint the pr,mrcee the loy.tehoth. heweeet ...

... NATURE NOTES IF every bird and eveiy animal in the , British countryside had a birthday party. they would nearly all come in Ala. and that month would prove the social season . ' of our wild life. Fur the countryside now full of nurseries--the high trees ...

... NATURE NOTES. I was right in supposing that Poppyland would be delightful in this splendid weather. They are all saying that it Is the best v.e have had this summer. Long may it continue ! Surely there is part of our land in which the flowers are brighter ...