... NATURE NOTES. DUCILLINO AND A strange cue which scum contrary to all the laws of nature hu been reported. A man An the neighbourhood of Dies, Norfolk, had • ban hatching out some ducks' eggs, and at the time when they should have come ol he found some ...

... NATURE NOTES. Drcx WM WOODII4 Laos. A duck, which warn recently roe one at Brooklyu, New York, has been supplied by • fanner with • pair of wooden lega The bird is able to get about quite as well as the rest of the poultry on the farm. BATTU or nANTAWN ...

... NATURE NOTES. ..1111•••••• FASTEST The shark is ths fastest swimmer of th• Ash tribe, and no diflcult7 in keeping up with the swift•et vessels, swimming end is. round them, and ever on the look•out for ntoesels, or large. AND LIGITNINO. Some trees are ...

... NATURE NOTES. AW ADAPTABLI Twin. The willow is one of the most adaptable of trees. A willow shoot stuck in the wet ground will often take root and become • true. The Bea is covered with armoured plates, very bard, and overlapping each other. Each bends ...

... NATURE NOTES. PI.ASTIP AND WATIII. Something closely akin to latellirnc• is exhibited be plants. If, during • dry season, • bucket of water be placed near • growing prumpkia, for example, in the course of a few dare the vegetable will turn towards it ...

... NATURE NOTES. SPIED UP AN OSTRICIE. Ware terries.] ostrich at the rite of twentyrite so hoar, sad from tidy, to fourtssu at s stride. A Ti'y Bien. The goldea-ereamd won, the smallest se British bird, is so tiny that it would take seventy-two of the.. ...

... NATURE NOTES. Tun Tin BrAutow. The poet hes told us that them we in the world to whom • primrose as • river's brim is • primrose, and nothing more, awl it is equally certain that there are numbers of unobservant mortals to atom a ••tipsrroeis a ...

... NATURE NOTES. AND DOGS. The dog grows for two you., and lieu ter ten or The eat grows for about *Waters swaths, and may 11Ve for ten years, although eases are knows of them oinch exceeding this period. •• • At Wrexham, Norfolk. is an taker's house-boat ...

... NATURE NOTES. AM ELZPIUNT'S An elephant works from the age of twelve to the age of eighty. lie can haul fifteen tons, lift half a ton, and carry three tons on his back without any trouble. ...

... NATURE NOTES. A C ILLaa's CoLova. The green and yellow tints so frequently to be found in caterpillars are stated to be due to colouring matter derived from their food and passed through the blood of the spinners. By impregnating leaves with artificial ...

... NATURE NOTES. BIRD Irma Two There is to be at Linwood, near Paisley. a blackbird which is the unique pcmcmior of two almost distinct heads. It has two bills, and has been to make ass of both. During the recent stormy weather the bbid came to feed with ...

... NATURE NOTES. Loma Laos AID TAILAL Birds with long legs have short tails. The chief of the tail boing to act as a rudder during light, how do these long-legged, shorttailed birds manage to steer themselves when on the wing? Their tails being of little ...