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... NATURE NOTES. Tn Stom*. Four atorka, ood liberated by ornitholo«ie»l _ aociety in Pnueia, bare been onpturea ana exanuned in the Tranaraal. Tbey bad down about fi.Boo milea. Hitherto it bad baaa believed that European atorka never migrated beyond the ...
... NATURE NOTES. How Snnm Kills. It may said that the perfection • stineing-apparatua la found, without doubt, in the serpent-tribes. In poisonous snake discover two hollow, or grooved, teetn (n), often capable being erected lowered in the month, and springing ...
... NATURE NOTES. Dbokoo. A w raoqnet-teilcd drongo, m India* bird, which imitdto the song of slmaot erory other bird and the toiom of enteale from dog* donkey*, has been presented to the Zoo. Hue name waa given to the bird by tha Franco-Dutch natural iat ...
... NATURE NOTES. Danunm ar AmxAU. Thai, plant which animal, bo dsamt aa the cwtor-oil plant. A. goat will imthar than eat it, and awn that destroyer everything green, the loouat, will not laeA upon it. Lnmnss Tuna. Forests of laafleaa tree# ar. to be found ...
... NATURE NOTES. THE MOLE CATCHER. Lest winter the mole catcher was making little fortune out of the fashion of the moment. Fouruence, and in some cases much as sixpence was (the “Draper” says) paid for the skin of every “little gentleman in black.” Now ...
... NATURE NOTES. Tabsusb. The Tarsier very rarely mm. being nocturnal. These little creatures from the Malay Islands hop about the trees in search of insecte. Their large eyes, beentifnl fnr, end peculiar thin tufted tail ere marked features. They ere smeller ...
... NATURE NOTES. MAY AMO THE MARIGOLD. ~ , , , As usual, the common marigold, calendula officinalis, is showing profusely in many gardens now that we are enjoying May sunshine. “Mary-gold was one time the pretty pronunciation of the name. is'enppoaod to ...
... NATURE NOTES UUMAL POWER. Interesting tests were made racentlv in the Madison-squaro Oardens, New York, to determine the respective pulling power of hones, men, and elephants. Two horses, weighing one thousand sis hundred pounds pach, together pulled ...
... NATURE NOTES. A Em. The strangest find of recent date is that of an egg measuring 33 inches in length and 26 inches in girth, with capacity of two Cone or 160 times that of the ordinary ’a egg. One could scarcely call it breakfast egg. It is the production ...
... nature notes. ABOUT BLACKBERRIES, Viwatable Trades “Fruit, Flower, and Yegeian .. w Journal ’’wmits to know why the coma* berry has not been improved toe tivation grnter _• commerce sfc l l . i.‘^- tween, wo say the waves ran mountains “‘gb, but toe highest ...
... NATURE NOTES. When th* Lobster Moults. Below is a lobster’s daw, which explains how the lobster, wishing to shed its shell, withdraws the fleshy part of the big daw through the narrow opening at the base of the limb. In this sketch the fleshy or muscular ...
... NATURE NOTES. •HEY, JOLLY ROBIN.' , . It is to the Bong ot the robin that mMt took for the moßio of the autumn month*. There** something etrongdy BuggeßUre, offrMte and winter even (observe* the U tlic music the robin. Not nlooe gnowa and storm* (end ...