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... NATURE NOTES. thrim Lrve • Psw Homes. Some insects that have to pami several years in the preparatory gimps only live a few hours after they have attained perfection. BM Olt LADY'S FAG'S. Whilst Miss Richards, of Rabe, Cornwall. was watching her bees ...
... NATURE NOTES. THE RAINDOW. To form a rainbow the sun must tot be more &au forty-two degrees above the horisou. ,NOTHERLESB MITES. - Au paroctsl can ever falls to the lot of • single member of tin insect tribe. In general, the eggs of an insect are destined ...
... NATURE NOTES. EIGETIBN VAIILIZTINS 07 NiTTLU. The nettle, which has eighteen common varieties, is the must widely spread of any wOd plant. DRAGONFLY'S POWRIIII. The dragonfly can perform more feats in the sir than any bird. It can outstrip the swallow; ...
... NATURE NOTES. Los. So extensive are the feeding rounds and rapid the movements of the wild oettich, that as many as fifty or sixty mile, are often travelled by it between daybreak and dad:. MOLT'S) TO Llli. It is a common experience amongst mountain - ...
... NATURE NOTES. AN Awes' Wier. Orr illustration shims as ante wt. Generally, an ants' nee. has a central hall from which pawn, branch out in all directions leading to stOriprooms; nurseries, f:lchambers, and bringroosts on differentif. . is divickd into ...
... NATURE NOTES. A Thiseiverm A received from Ceylon eves as *comet eis attack mad* as, elephant on the If ollaiftiou-Wankulusa mail coach. With one blow of the animal's trunk the driver of the coach was felled to the ground dead; them the oesveysam itself ...
... NATURE NOTES. SONGSTERS. A correstiondoat says h• ha• Wks /saintly men bladthirds chase • at. Th• oat is eases aril for saf•tx into • holm, CLIMBING RA/SITS. The feet of som Australian rabbite show an adaptation which is being gradually brought about ...
... NATURE NOTES. SAVING BIRDS PAR•DISZ. The Australian Commonwealth (Severn. meat, has priihibited the exportation of the plumg, nkinii, or eggs of the native birds of A u s t ral ia and New Guinea. The mist interesting group of birds likely to affected ...
... NATURE NOTES. IT ANIMALS. There is no plant which animals so detest as the cantor-oil plant. A goat will starve rather than eat it, and even that destroyer of everything green, the locust, will not feed upou it. TRIM. Forests of leaden trees are to be ...
... NATURE NOTES. Wives Tim Guows. Thio ink plant of New Granada • cariosity. The juice of it can be used as ink without any preparation. At first the writing is red, but after a few bows it &mays to black. ...
... NATURE NOTES. AN INCONVENIENT SWARM. A lady was busy in bar prden whin • swarm of bees .salad on bar bead. Tbe owner of the bees, • neighbour, brought a Wye and took than off. She was net stung at all. ...
... NATURE NOTES. ♦ CHANGE 07 COLOV. , Lake Murat, in Switaerland, ham the curious property, every tenth year, of turning red, owing to the presence of certain water plants, which are not found in any other lake in the world. ...