... NATURE NOTES. SBA SALT AND PLANT LEAVE& Plants growing near the ma thickor than those growing inland. Apparently the salt is the cause of this phenomenon, as plants cultivated in artificially. salted soil yield thicker ...

... NATURE NOTES. Drcx WM WOODII4 Laos. A duck, which warn recently roe one at Brooklyu, New York, has been supplied by • fanner with • pair of wooden lega The bird is able to get about quite as well as the rest of the poultry on the farm. BATTU or nANTAWN ...

... NATURE NOTES. AW ADAPTABLI Twin. The willow is one of the most adaptable of trees. A willow shoot stuck in the wet ground will often take root and become • true. The Bea is covered with armoured plates, very bard, and overlapping each other. Each bends ...

... NATURE NOTES. At Tisza bbds, Nouns their kw they wieh to attract the wpoeite sex of their epodes. The °slows at the seals sown= pike becomes missed. brilliant, and in the breedimg meson. also puts on an Weems hoe which is very estimable, sod at one caused ...

... NATURE NOTES. A C ILLaa's CoLova. The green and yellow tints so frequently to be found in caterpillars are stated to be due to colouring matter derived from their food and passed through the blood of the spinners. By impregnating leaves with artificial ...

... NATURE NOTES. FIELD AND SNAILS. Ii a ruts of field cede tea yards lose. in a quarry near tfiere have bees discovered the shells of 3,000 snails which atlas lu.d devoured. A BATTLE. • remarkable sight was recently CU the coast. A full-growa seal was on ...

... NATURE NOTES. BIRD Irma Two There is to be at Linwood, near Paisley. a blackbird which is the unique pcmcmior of two almost distinct heads. It has two bills, and has been to make ass of both. During the recent stormy weather the bbid came to feed with ...

... NATURE NOTES. AM ELZPIUNT'S An elephant works from the age of twelve to the age of eighty. lie can haul fifteen tons, lift half a ton, and carry three tons on his back without any trouble. ...

... In& NATURE NOTES. EMOTION VARMIZS Ur NUMMI. The nettle. which has eighteen comma Tarktimis the mee4 widely tread of say plant. Powzas. The dragmelly ean perform more trate in the air than any bird. It can ouietrip the swallow; it can fly backward. ania ...

... NATURE NOTES. Do Nor &so FLYI3IO. Birds. with the exception of the skylark sad woodlark, do sing in their Sight. 'l`lll SYALLBST The Greenland birch is the smallest tree Ws the world. It is generally only a few inches high, but its branches cover a radius ...

... NATURE NOTES. Loma Laos AID TAILAL Birds with long legs have short tails. The chief of the tail boing to act as a rudder during light, how do these long-legged, shorttailed birds manage to steer themselves when on the wing? Their tails being of little ...

... NATURE NOTES. Frvis ous. In their feelers have five Roles. each M which has its duties to p..rforin. One oo tells the aut whether it is iu its own nest that of an enemy; another noire discriminate. between odours of ants of the same species, of different ...