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... GRATITUDE IN CATS. The following incident of the gratitude of a eat is related in Nature Notes as being true. The animal had been taken in from the street waifs, and took a great liking to the baby of the house. One day the parents were both out and ...
... TAPPING. A correspondent in Nature Notes • gives his impressions of the cause of the tapping sounds that occasionally are beard in rooms of our houses similar to the noise of the death-watch. I cannot, he says, help feeling convinced that ...
... TROUBLESOME STARLINGS. So many correspondents have written to Nature Notes anent the starling's cuno . .:s habit of laying eggs here and there on bare branches, whence they fall to the ground and smash, that it. may interest them to know that the same ...
... RATB AND RAVER. Rats, like magpies and jalkdaws. seem to hive a partiality for silver. A lady writing to Nature Notes says:—My sister was staying in a lonely house the south-west of Ireland during August of this year. One evening the housemaid, when ...
... MOBILISATION. Wonderful are the ways of ants, and in no ro'poet more than as • sort of contorted reflection of our own. Nature Notes recalls the experiment of a well - known scientist who once on the brown bills surrounding the famous old city of Toledo ...
... keepers would not allow any harm to come to it. Thrush Boddie, on Ground. Every lover of birds, says Mr. C. It. Medfield in Nature Notes, can give numerous instances of strange and out-of-the-way nesting places, but it is so rarely the,. a matter of fct - ...
... THE ONCOMING OF THE TIGER. Col. Yaldwyn describes in Nature Notes how n tiger approaches in the forest: At about sunset various denizens of the forest, hitherto unseen, emerge from their shelters, very warily indeed, sometimes listening attentively ...
... GIRDS AT HIGHGATE. The following note, contributed by Mr. Charles S. Parsons, of Southwood-lane, Highgate, to Nature Notes, will interest lovers of birds: On Sunday morning last I had the pleasure of seeing a spotted woodpecker in my garden. It is ...
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... Tim ET4GLISH LAKES VISITOR AND KFWICK GUARDIAN-SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 21, 1903. BIRD VENGEANCE. A writer in Nature Notes describes au amusing encounter between a large swan And a little brown duck. The duck had apparently insulted the swan by trying to ...
... under the name of waves are those due to tidal attraction and to earthquake disturbance, most of the waves we see (says Nature Notes) are due to the immediate or more remote action of wind. A gentle breeze ripples the surface of any water, whilst higher ...
... even forbidden to peas the great wall of Kalkan and to enter Mongolia. All the Chinese of this border town are traders. NATURE NOTES COVER FOR RUNTS. If it is intended to no wild rabbits upon the ground in any quantity it is advisable to see that there ...