... illustration of the tender affection for each hta displayed by monkeys, Mr. Robert Mforley relates tbe following incident in Nature 'Notes:-- A friend of mine, a native of India, was sitting in his garden, admiring the ripe fruit that hung from the trees, when ...

... that the competitor's age is correctly stated. BIRDS AND THEIR WAYS. An amusing incident, writes 'Mr. J. E. Whiting in Nature Notes,was witnessed by afriend, who,like my- self, is interested in anything relating to natural history. Whilst working at ...

... BLACKBIRD'S INSANE DELUSION. J. K. S. writes from Abbotsfield to Nature Notes as follows :—At spring-time, when birds of the male sex are often seized with an irresistible desire to display their gallantry by picking a quarrel with their neighbours ...

... that the instrument is never lazy, and is absolutely impartial. STRANGE CONDUCT OP A J. K. S. writes from AbbotsSeld to Nature Notes as follows —At springtime, when birds of the male sex are often seised with an irresistible desire to display their gallantry ...

... | THE CHILDREN'S HOUR. arn BY UNCLE OLDMAN. an _ ?? Tn the current number of Nature Notes, the maga-i zinc of the Selborne Society-a society which bas much Ri in common with our own Guild of Gentlenes5-th0 in' editor writes an article under the title ...

... we are told of the late Sir Eihard Owen. An intense affection for animals and birds, says a writer in this month's Nature Notes, was a lead- ing characteristic of the great naturalist who was taken from us at a ripe old are shortly before Christ ...

... WILD LIFE TASMANIA. Continuing interesting article Nature Notes, tho journal of the borne Society, Mr. Hamilton Stuart Dove writes awaking early tbo morning of a fino Bpring day, what chorus of bird voices greets our ear. first after dawn tho native ...

... afternoon's Walk in Spring, t A STRAY PIGEON. a ' Early in the 'month of February. 1892, says a corre. a spondent of Nature Notes, a pigeon was observed o flying about the 'back of my hnuse, not going away, I I but occasionally alighting on the roof ...

... elementary schools. Let special Gilbert White prizes be ottered at the end of the present term for the best original nature - notes made by the scholars during the summer vacation. In every school there is always a proportion of shy, ungregarious boys ...

... trmmphod in his breast, and it to be hoped that the angry father will also repent. A TALKING CANARY. A lady correspondent of Nature Notes, while staying recently in the little of Chnrmill, Somerset, heard a talking canary. The bird belongs to a Mrs. Bnckland ...

... .A. To/king Cozary. A lady correspondent of Nature Notes, while staying recently in the little village of Churchill, Somerset, heard a tslkity canary. The bird belongs to a Mrs. Wickland, wife of a gardener living in Churchill. Joey came into her ...

... possessed. He is slaws self-conscams, and in hie whole life, as told in this book, the authoress has been able to strike so natural note. An outburst of real nauglatanem would have been a punitive relief, and his parrotlike reiteration that the had always ...