... NATURE NOTES. No FLOWERMO PLANTB. Within the Antarctic there loss never been band e flowezing plant. In the Arctic regions there are over seven hundred different specil of fl twers. ...

... NATURE NOTES. THI SPEND OP AN °STUCK. When terrified the ostrich travels at the rate of twenty-fire miles an hour, and clears from twelve to fourteen feet at a stride. A BIRD. The golden-crested wren, the smallest ci British bird, is so tiny that it would ...

... NATURE NOTES. Pm Noes'. In their feelers ants have five noses, sac& of which has its own duties to perform. One nose tells the ant whether it is in its own nest or that of an enemy; another noise discriminate, between odours of ants of the same species ...

... NATURE NOTES. Burns HATS If CLAws. When • bird lifts its foot the toes close auto. antically. This is to prevent the possibility of a bird falling off its perch at night while roosting. The foot has an entirely automatic movement. When • hen walks you ...

... NATURE NOTES. or StA SALT ON Plants growing near the sea hive thicker leaves than those which grow inland. The sea salt has seemingly this effect, for plants cultivated in artificially-salted soil yield thicker leaves. R BIRD. The rarest bird in existence ...

... NATURE NOTES. Do NOT FLY7/40. Birds, with the exception of the skylark asil woodlark, do not sing in their flight. SMALLEST nu'. The Greenland birch is the smallest tree in the world. It is generally only a few inches high, but its branches cover a radius ...

... NATURE NOTES. VO MORE STEEL now. Through tie of His Majesty, no mom steel traps ais I. I. art i m a is Siatead Park. Recently a forth the croalty Minolta( II esichial rabbit. by el hate aigillawar hid flra local Society for the P 10.041110111 of AMMO& ...

... NATURE NOTES. Tyra GREvitorND's SPEED. The greyhound seems to have been developed in level, treeless, and shrublesa tsulutries. where a moving object is visible at a long distanoe, end grest bpced is therefore necessary to enable an animul to overtake ...

... NATURE NOTES. AN ALOE INIWON. An aloe, 12ft. height. is hi With is front prden of Highwood Hones, North IPinchley. There are twenty-six blooms altogether, and these are expeeted shortly to tower. It is said that the aloe does not blooms Ia loglish gardens ...

... NATURE NOTES' DETERIORATION OF RED DEER. t The Marquis el Breadslbane. writing 19 Country Life, says :—My own ides is that it is a great pity to shoot fine young stags just coming to maturity, and that it is always better, provided you are a fair shot ...

... NATURE NOTES. LONG-LIVID Will). Instances of the generation of eharloa, if wild mustard, seed after long periods are well known, bat the following, related by a farmer is striking: I remember having field pond cleared out a few years ago, which, according ...

... NATURE NOTES, A CURIOUS WATER PLANT. - - - One of the most carious water plants, says • writer in the People's Friend: is the spiral* whose female flowers are situated me bag, spiral stalks, which can be oosepreesed on lengthened &wording as the level ...