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... NATURE NOTES. An Elkphsnt’s Stbenoth. An elephant works from the age of twelve to the age of eighty. He can haul fifteen tons, lift half a ton, and carry three tons on his back without any trouble. This Busk Basis Silk. Madagascar is the home of a bush ...
... NATURE NOTES. Shobt ahb Lms. It lum Jut been computed thct d»y hours; tbs M«y fly «« w»k«; the butterfly two months, as, aloe, also doe* the flea; the fly three to four months; the aat, the cricket and the bee one yew the hare. Sheep, six to 10 years ...
... NATURE NOTES. After being lost for many years ‘'TPr* pedium fsinesniam variety of Mchld, fo» which reward of £l,OOO wan offered, had been found Tibet.’ . Tan Snaks’s Era. When the snake ebede bis skin, which occurs frequently—as often ovary four or five ...
... NATURE NOTES. DETERIORATION OF RED DEER. , Tha Marquis of Breadalbane, writing (b Country Life. saysMy own ima is that it is great pity to shoot fine young stags just coining to maturity, and that always better, prosided you are s«{air,ahot, to try ...
... NATURE NOTES. Tn Stbxrstx Sssuras. A limpet may appear poor flabby ereathro, and yet he can pull 1,984 time# own weight in the air, ana nearly double that in water. The Mediterranean cockle can exert prill equivalent to 3,071 times his weight. The force ...
... NATURE NOTES. COAST WILDFOWL Wildfowl reported be numerous along the Esaox, Kentish, Norfolk, and Suffolk coasts, whan excellent feeding grounds obtainable in tbs estuaries and creeks the Thames, Blackwater, Deten, Crouch, Tars, Stour (Essex), Stour (Kent) ...
... NATURE NOTES. A Tnanon Mouxavs. Monkeys are said to be hypnotised by the snake. A monkey has been known to drop in dead faint in front of serpent's jaws. Tbaxstixsd. A rabbit watching hawk soaring above its head has been known to become so absorbed that ...
... NATURE NOTES, OUT OF DOORS. . , . The gplden plover is •mTtag the vrestera shores of England. The skyUrke*nd robin stitt continue to sing, the jay tosiall the dMUis the woods, the owls to make the pights hideous with their bootings. The caterpillar of ...
... NATURE NOTES. A. Cmuons Fish. “Peter’s Bested Pish” ». ««*>▼• °* tropical Africa, and is named because the elongation the loner jaw into a fleshy appendage, thus forming tea is dark brown colour, with two lighs brand-like markings near the fins. Someof ...
... NATURE NOTES. The Australian, platypus ona of most interesting of all animals, owing its possessing physical resemblance to many other creatures. has fur like seal and the bill of a duck; it laya eggs, and yet it suckles its young. ...
... NATURE NOTES. The craw the steamer Syria recently captured a shark in the Sues Canal. _ When the fish was opened they were horrified to find man’s head, three straw hats, two fowls, and large quantity of bones. Tbs shark, lift. long, weighed BUolb. ...
... NATURE NOTES. Loxo-univ Wxbd. Instances o! the generation charges, wild mustard, seed after long periods are we U known, bnt the following, related a farmer striking: “I remember having * field pond cleared out a few years ago, which, according to middle-aged ...