... NATURE NOTES. MALAYAN TATIZ. This ie the largest of an th• tapirs. It is blaek and white in colour. It. frequents the dew* forests where water is found, in which it delights to and wallow it the to keep away the flies, also to 1111011 pe its enemies. ...

... NATURE NOTES. M114./ONS Lim. --- Every known plant is occasionally inhabited by own particular species of aphis. These curious little insects breed with wonderful rapidity, a French naturalist proving that a pair of them will, within six weeks, produce ...

... NATURE NOTES. TEAT DIMON. _ Tbs giant cranes of India, MEM et tally ski feet in bsight, are queer birds. They mate for life, and, as are -singalarty devoted to each other. Among their peso. that of dancing together is most remarkable. To and fro and up ...

... NATURE NOTES. THE CAMEL CANT SWIM. The camel cannot swim. though it sounds, the moment this animal loam its footing in a stream it turns over, and makes no effort to save itself from drowning. - MISTAKEN FOR BISONS. In the great Arkansas Valley there ...

... NATURE NOTES. DOG V. MN. A remarkable angling incident is reported to have occurred in the River Weaver Two &11. glerc were flaking no Hunday, and the bait of I.lJ^ nf then was seised by a pollo with such voracity that float, hoe, rod, sad all were dragged ...

... NATURE NOTES, ammeimmo Liszt .1 Aim& io darkness or ord liglit ono 'EMU* b.losvior, but to kayo oily odo roma as those born wider normal ow idiom Aity can distinguish • poisonous serpent from a one. for a invariably • triangular shaped and • blaut nose ...

... NATURE NOTES. A GIANT 07TN1. Visitors to the Natural History Hamm at South Kensington DOW have the opportimity of easing a new specimen of the giant otter of South America. The present excellent and well mounted example replaces an old and badly-mounted ...

... NATURE NOTES. PLAIITS AND SUICIDE. 110 plants ever commit suicide The County Gesitleman MAWS a suggestion of the kind in of some of the clematises. You can (it says) plant a clematis which does admirably for a few months, even for a few years, in a ...

... NATURE NOTES. KANT Homogenous. Japanese horses wear sandals of rice straw, of which are attached to the saddle, be renewed when necessary. The Iceland peasant shoes his pony with sheep's horn. In the upper Oxus valleys horseshoes made of the antlers of ...

... NATURE NOTES. now BANsoos BLoom. Bamboo plants are said to have the peenliarity of blooming at exactly the same time. whether in Europe or Africa. the difference is climate and surroundings seeming to make no change in the plants bursting into Sower. ...

... NATURE NOTES. The Australia* platypus is of the sleet interesting of all animals. owing to It. possessing physical resemblance to many other creatures. It has fur like a seal and the bill of a deck; it lays eggs, and yet it suckles its young. MI YINTIZATOINS ...

... NATURE NOTES. As BAD MI AN On a Plymouth Rock fowl at Charlton, Kent, being kilhe4 Ulm folic ordinary collection wag fd :boat twenty pieces of gls, one ill one tin-tack, e OD• and • screw, one bone collar-stud, one and • inch copper rivet, one shirt button ...