... NATURE NOTES. riA7IVEILD Ornithologists assert that some birds, especially sparrows, thrtishem, and robins, have ventriloquial powers. Birds, when surprised to singing, will be silent for • moment, and than give forth • faint song that to from • distance ...

... NATURE NOTES. Hasoxs AND CROWS. Au outcry raised in Scotland against the heron as a devourer of trout has led to strong protest by many in the bird's favour aa a des. troyer of eels. If, says one writer, heron destroyers would only turn themselves ...

... NATURE NOTES. or • PI.T. l'he houne liy, with a total life of about ten days, develops in these periods: egg from laying to hatching, one-third of • day; hatching of larva to first moult, one day; second moult to pupation, three days; pupate:4l to issuing ...

... NATURE NOTES. BZWILDIMID BY FOG. Fog has a bewildering effeta, not only on human beings, but on salamis, save those who find their way by Birds us entirely confused by it. Tame pigmies remain all day motionless and bald asleep tither just in or just outside ...

... NATURE NOTES. Orient CATorre At Grimsby some time ago occurred an en traordniary instance of an oyster which acted as a mousetrap. A lady left three oysters one night in her pantry. On enter log the larder the following morning het astonishment was great ...

... NATURE NOTES. • Ouse Orris. Visitors to the Natural History Museum at South Kensington now have the opportunity of seeing a new specimen of the giant otter of South America. The present excellent and well-mounted example replaced an old and badly-mounted ...

... NATURE NOTES. OItIYIIOIIND . II SPZID. The greyhound seems to have been developed an level, treeless. and shrubless oountrbos, where a nloving object is visible at a long diatance, and great speed i.e therefore necessary to enable an animal to overtake ...

... NATURE NOTES. A DEN'S DEVOTION When walking over the ruins after • astrous farm tire in America. a man discovered a dead hen sitting close on the ground. Ile poked her with his foot, when the fell over and disclaimed a lively little brood of ducks, which ...

... NATURE NOTES. A Holm. A robin recently took up ita abode in • florist shop in the main street of Leicester. It dies in and out of the shop during the day, roosts in a basket hanging from the ceiling, and takes grapes from the bands of the assistants. ...

... NATURE NOTES. STAIIKSID SALMON. On ODO occasion, while out hunting on tLe River Ere, near litsfford's.bridge, about two miles from Exeter, some otter bounds made a dash into a big pool, on the oppusite side of which a shingly beach. As the hounds dashed ...

... NATURE NOTES. A PLANT. The towering plant is believed to be wafts mienuecopica, a native of India. It belongs to the duekwoed family. It is almost zaicrosoopie in size, destitute of proper stem, leaves, and roots, but having these organs merged in one ...

... NATURE NOTES. Vex Timms Dull'. At &omens], in Derbyshire, a farmer's wife one morning to her benhouee, found many of her bens and chickeos killoj or eaten sad a large fox lying dead by sido! hilts seised it by its brush and threw ii outside, but the sly ...