... NATURE NOTES. [Specially Coktbibutbd.] Reference was made by my Worcestershire correspondent last week the poisonous nature the seeds of the laburnum. The fact that so few cases of podsonin# from eating them have been recorded in recent years is perhaps ...

... NATURE NOTES. [Bpsoiax.lt C 0 x I SttS bet oooaaooa! ooatwbwt^ * 'book birds which was ocas jwaionabio prios, handy tho pocket, and capable of gniding lovers country life who little knowledge of ornithology in the identification of various apedoa. This ...

... NATURE NOTES THE BLOSSOM OF THE HAWTHORN. rSPKCIAI.LT CONTKrBUTID.I The -modern arrangement fiho calendar has suggestion incongruity moefa of our old folklore and nomenclature. May blossom w»a -well named according the old stylo of reckoning, but it is ...

... NATURE NOTES. (fIPIOIALLT CoVTBXBVrV^I This is the time of the jeer when many people from the Birmingham district make ezeartkma into the orchards of Evesham and Persbore to see the plum trees in the glory of their blossom amid their surroundings of yellow ...

... NATURE NOTES A CUCKOO'S TRAGIC END. An interesting occurrence in bird life is reported from Poleshill. A few weeks ago a pair of yellow wagtails built their nest in a field of mowing grass by the side of the railway, and when the full complement of eggs ...

... NATURE NOTES. [SnOALLT Mr. C. H. Widdowson, of ladifieid, sends account of tragedy that witnessed last week in which a house sparrow acted the role of the villain the piece. saw a bouse sparrow and what be first took to be a large butterfly engaged in ...

... NATURE NOTES. OoVVBIRVTBIAI Mying, “Familiarity breed* very applicable to tome oar birds, many of wbicb would be much more highly if they were leas plentiful. axe two of our common native birds for which I very high regard, and which always particularly ...

... NATURE NOTES. CojrTBIBTTT*®.] BopplanKot to €h« informatwn pubtidusd tbs British AMSototton the of bcrd«. repprt Mr. Ogilri® hsws just iasood. m the reeok tho obserritsons mad* fast jeer by tb© oommrtte* specially appointed for purpose by the British ...

... NATURE NOTES. LOCAL MIQRATORT MOVEMENTS. past three •wr%'k» I barm been tb« East Coast, and have ! mi,a bio take local bird before going arway tltai theco wore cS an early com- PKgioefiwaii the aula ran mutation, and that apparwrtJy, «%wo for few etragglcrs ...

... NATURE NOTES. fSVBOIAILT COMTIXBITTID.] misfortune take my holidays when the tides are somewhat unfavourable to the odQoctkm of eeashore spociinena. richest region for the naturalist is that which borders * what is called the aone, which can only Approached ...

... NATURE NOTES. [Specially Conibibutid.] There nothing mere bewildering the than the difference which often exists between the sexes in pnrticalar species. This is particularly marked the cose the orange-tip butterfly Cardamines). The name is generally ...

... NATURE NOTES. ’•AGUES OF WINGED ANTS. [Specially Odwtbibutid.l Mr. C. Co*, Hindswortli, •ends mo box ooniaining number what fiioa, which says infect his house in thousands the present time, emerging from vices in the woodwork and near tb© grate in his ...