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... NATURE NOTES. A Lain. In the of tenon, one of the Ones, a lily or tap with a black Bower, sight or inches across, has dissovered. It Sowers before the leaves appear, and an odour of tainted fifth, which attracts insects to it for the purpose of fertilisation ...
... NATURE NOTES. A Critiors °razz. In Africa there is a woaierfu/ sad carioca tree called the paw-paw treo. You may take one of its leaven and wrap at toned a bit of tough beef or mutton, and it will make it tender but not cook it. The leaves be a good sine ...
... NATURE NOTES. A The existent reptile is the sian•sth3g salt-water crocodile at Southern Asia sad dustman, which, when WI-grown, measures 110 ft, in length from end of sow to tip of MIL One men makes hardly more than • siouthful f3r this fearsome criesture ...
... NATURE NOTES. WASPI TN A PIAN. A prominent oflicial of the Lancashire Farmers Association 111111 three weeps crawl out of a long French pear while in his garden at Penworthan, near Preston. Placing his hand over the hole in the pear. plunged it into a ...
... NATURE NOTES. k FR \ •• •- Ls. 312,000 species of animals, sad at the pinsint i gzsi say there are se 60 per cent. being NM, numbers appear, they are dwarfed leads of prehistoric times whsu geologists declare that one period alone produced 31,000,000 ...
... NATURE NOTES. .m.sfemor boom What appears to be the lased known has been described in India by Dr. N Annandale. It is only 1-120th of an inch long, with • spread of wings of 1-30th of an Inch, and belongs to the Hymenoptera. the order including ants, ...
... NATURE NOTES. Per Liars. - 'A pet lamb kept by • butcher at sear Preston, can be seen daily standing at his side in the shop, surrounded by slaughtered sheep and lambs. It is fond of playing with a large collie dog and with children. A Lvcir COMMIT. Abyssinia ...
... NATURE NOTES. Yrs &AIM. Among the rapidly disappearing wild la the eland or Cape elk, which is a native of South Africa. It is one of the of the antelopes, and is especially prized as furnishing the best of all venison. Schemes for preservation include ...
... NATURE NOTES. AND Do animals commit suicide? There is an old belief to the effect that an adder swallows its young in case of danger, and ancient writers tell us that it was a habit among scorpions to dig their stings into their heads when unable to escape ...
... NATURE NOTES. A TISITOS FROM LIIIIOAD. The Patagonian cavy is a little azinul that has been successfully acclimatised in England and ar.me parta of Europe. It is about twice the size of a hare, but the flesh is like that of the rablit. It burrows like ...
... NATURE NOTES. TRII OWL. COMPTIMATIOM. The owl cannot move its eye in tit* in order to oompensate for tins absence of motion the bird is able to turn its head round in almost a complete circle silthout moving its body. WATza • Ps.airr. One of the most ...
... NATURE NOTES. .is AB Pumems. Bees are excellent weather prophets. They seem able to anticipate a long time ahead whether the winter is to be mild or severe, sad make their preparations accordingly. KI/ORT ON Till KANGAROO. The average height of the lismgaroo ...