... NATURE NOTES. HOW BIRDS TRAVEL ordinary route of our travelling birds autumn is from nor'-nor'-east to sou-sou because the cold north north-east wind which makes them move and the natural trend the land ope is to the south and south-west. The bird* do ...

... NATURE NOTES. OCT DATE. It not every year (says writer in the Daily \ Graphic) yon can oat and gather bunch of wild flowers on the Ist of December. Nor, perhaps, is worth while do even when you can. The lingering poppy, which still makes a bright spot ...

... NATURE NOTES. THE RETURN OF THE HOUSE MARTINS. With a favourable change of wind Nature's aspect has completely altered. Last week, we were lamenting the deaths of many swallows, which had come so far from only to die of hardship English s This week have ...

... NATURE NOTES. SUMMER SEPTEMBER. Pleasures seem best when are about lose them; and every' smoker will tell you that the last pipe at bedtime has fragrance all its own the last smiles Summer in September seem sweeter thin all that have gouc before; and ...

... NATURE NOTES. THE LANGUAGE OP BIRDS. Lees attention is paid to the language than to any other branch of ornithology, perhaps because you cannot put it stuffed into glass case, or preserve spirits for mnseura purposes. Yet far mere important, as an aid ...

... NATURE NOTES. Flowers and Insects. A writer in the Daily Graphic says:—lt is a- commonplace of science gossip to attribute all the beauties of our flowers to the mstlietic tastes of the insects which haunt them, the plants being supposed to have developed ...

... NATURE NOTES. WELCOME WITH A SHOT-GUN The birds' tourist season for autumn (says an able writer in the Daily Graphic) in full swing, and the shore gunners our eastern coasts anxiously scan the direction of the wind each day. Just the British tourist ...

... NATURE NOTES. LLSTGEBS. A Daily Graphic correspondent writes: —When the of June and the dahlias of Septmber are still, in full bloom, with the ...

... NATURE NOTES. DEAD SWALLOWS. When the cold winds were blowing and driving rainclouds shut out the sunshine day after day, we thought ourselves badly used, and our inclement Bank Hobday was a national grievance. But what was our hardship compared with ...

... NATURE NOTES. Late Wasps. Some of the harvests of wild life (says a writer in the ally Graphio ) have been wonderfully prolonged this year. It is rarely, for instance, that wasps' nests, except in the South, continue in a state of activity until the ...

... NATURE NOTES. BIRDS AND WINDS. The following interesting article appears ' Daily Graphic: winter birds continue arrive betimes, though the persistent east winds of the have continued their journey, mostly land, across Europe. The same winds have doubt ...

... NATURE NOTES. WHAT THE BIRDS SAT. . If you would see much, of bird-life you must understand what the birds say. and at this season, when their are full of emotions and excitement—Ln love-making, nesting, and taking care of inexperienced children—they ...