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... NATURE NOTES. at • pair of robins have built trier Mit Pi ars now dr* young ones in damp room in Ewell School, Dover. wirers forty to Ifty daily airsiebts. The birb show us sign of fear fainliag their young in the preseaos of tits clans. Ten Weems., The ...
... NATURE NOTES. I WONDERFUL PLANT. — A remarkable fact connected with the rice pbuit is its almost entire immunity from the attacks of insects, and from those diseases which Infect the and other vegetable growths, as that it supplies a wholesome diet for ...
... NATURE NOTES. Ths LONOWARID OWL. This is a very handsome bird; its gumage Is rich and varied, and its general appearance bold and striking. It is a permanent resident in Great Britain and Ireland, and although not plentiful in any particular locality ...
... NATURE NOTES., ..--40.--.. I THE mom The Old Wisdot of the Thames base what is siiimed to be the largest roach swsight is river. It fell to the rod of an angler mail sad scaled 211 w. 12oza. •—• CANARY NOTE.. German isoel all other canaries as singers ...
... NATURE NOTES: ENGLISH MAYEN& . ' floimoso ristorolio• at ersyfids to twist of *a Thom, trourolisoll have (3=tliporoyloti diatooo . , P' ooderstoodo,f - - „mi.= ...
... NATURE NOTES. AND Lvno. It ham just bete computed that the dal fly lives 24 hours; the May fly six weeks - the butterfly two montha, as, alas. also door the flea; the fly three to four months; the ant, the cricket and the one year each the hare, sheep ...
... NATURE NOTES. A ANIMAL. - --- The oommon (hiker bok, an elegant little specimen of the antelope tribe, is an inhabitant of Africa. It has a wide range stretching on the east from the Cape to the Zambesi and Nyasaland, and on the west to Angola. It can ...
... NATURE NOTES. Coes. ••Cool as a eueumber is sot • popular saying, but • scientific feet, the tenssztoure of that vegetable always being • below that of the surrounding &Amor pkerta ...
... NATURE NOTES. CONTAGION IN BUNFLOWERB. Britons chew tobacco, Americans chew rim, and Ittssians chew the seeds or the sunflower. Every maa, woman, and child of the lower and middle classes chews them, sad the expectorated busks litter streets, railway ...
... NATURE NOTES. PHILIONININO Jack • began busof a for railway Maritime he has Nam A correspondent supplies arms elbow what largo amounts can be in lila London Jack 11 has lately senteibdsd as his moat inntalment the Sam of 10e. 6d. to the L. nod S.W ...
... NATURE NOTES. Doo's Futrx.r. A dog is to be seen with a mixed litter of puppies and kittens at a cafi at Chamagnieu. 111 the Isere (France). Their mother having been poiaoned, the kittens mewed piteously and aroused the maternal instincts of s is an adjoining ...
... NATURE NOTES. , —..—.5..—.. CANNIBAL FIELD NICE. Perhape, in proportioo to aim the shrew is the most ferocious and pugnacious animal knows to science, not excluding the formidable foam of Madagascar. The daily combats of magnified to • eft scale would ...