... NATURE NOTES. These dry, balmy August days are one long delight to the pedestrian, ulways granting that his nay lies not over the broad pikes, where the stinging, choking dust by rushing odorous traffic desecrates and makes hideous the gteeu trappings ...

... NATURE NOTES. I am in a harvest field. The sun, colour molten copper, transfuses the heavens with delicious misty rose, and already (it seems abort time since we began sticking the wheat) its lower edge cut by the mass of grey purple cloud low the western ...

... NATURE NOTES. u name familiar to most few who can single out the Almost instinctively associate with woods damp, eene, and still, P la f' ai edge of waters deep and dark , K the hemlock has an T! comes of an extremely c , ' family, characteristic members ...

... Nature Notes. Charles Dibdin, renowned writer songs, once wrote duet called The Lover's Calendar, for He and She. They sing the lovera and the and when November's turn comes: He : November bids mo hang or drown, Shb : By which you're soonest mended ...

... Nature Notes LL who live in or near the | countryside should be I familiar with the birds which are most useful. Among the farmer's best friends are all the five breeding species of owls, one of which is the quaint but beautiful barn-owl, who lives almost ...

... d, Rich- mond, Surrey; or the Rev, RK. Ashington Bullen, Pyrierd Vicrage, Weking. CURIOUS CONDUCT OF RATS. Writing to “Nature Notes,” C. Gichcil, the honorary secretary of the Ken- singion branch of the Sefborne Society, says: ““My sister was staying ...

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... NATURE NOTES. A thoroughly equipped bird observatory, combined vcitli an aviary for ibc study of live birds, baa just been established at Monroe C9unty, Pennsylvania. Through the generosity of Mr. C. C. Worthingtcn, who has endow**) the institution, and ...

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... NATURE NOTES. There is a thin coat of snow whitening tlie hills write these notes, and the hedges and woods stand out as sepia lines and patches. This of tilings may not last long, for the wind, though steady and keen, shows a tendency towards the magical ...

... NATURE NOTES. .j. It easy to observe and think of the cart which the animal lavishes upon its offspring, the food and protection provided the parent, and the cherishing of new for the part it must play in a world of strife. But there are other interesting ...

... NATURE NOTES. V Hie liills at this time of tJie year nre, would seem, too bare and inhospitable for any beside the most confirmed of ramblers; anil all, I suppose, because of the conviction that in early January there i« nothing to see. This spirit wrong ...