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... Nature Notes Rook. and Crows. On the first Sunday March this mason the rooks did not seem to be concerning themselves much about nest-building at least in the districts in which I was able to observe them; and I noticed what I have frequently noticed ...
... NATURE NOTES The thrushes The thrush is probably one of the most familiar birds to the average person, but how many, people know that we have no less than five types of the family resident in, or visitant to, the British Isles. They are the missel thrush ...
... NATURE NOTES Looking back (continued) nie threat to our coal supplies by labour troubles at some of the cross-channel ports leads one to think of alternative fuels, and naturally peat comes first to mind. Of this fuel I wrote three years ago: Turf for ...
... NATURE NOTES. .-0,-.. PIGEONS LOl9 FLIGHT. Over 8000 pigeons were dispatehed from Manchester recently by special trains to Southampton, for St. Melo, where they will be released. Tho distance of the Ay is 423 miles. ANINAI2 THAT SHED TEARS. A ...
... NATURE NOTES. A BIT ABOUT THE BABOON. When baboons once take to a meslie field, says Uls Country Gentleman, they will not leave it till they have eaten every cob. When they dopart every evening for home they have filled their stomachs, their cheek pouches ...
... NATURE NOTES. Ms Tss-Tim. The most terrible scourge of Africa at the present moment is the sleeping sickness, whitt is conveyed to man by the tse-tse y. and vet up to quite a recent date man was consiaered immune from the attacks of this poisonous pest ...
... NATURE NOTES. TAPPINO FOR BAP. lodia-rubber trees which are tapped every other day continue to yield asp for mom than twisty years; and it is a curious tact that the oldest sod most frequently-lapped tress produce the richest A BTORK'B LEO. The municipal ...
... NATURE NOTES. SEARS THAT MAKE ROAD.. The best road maker in Alaska. according to an Alaskan guide of many years' srprience, is the brown bear. Not only are the banks of the streams trodden into good trails by these great animals, but the swampy places ...
... NATURE NOTES. HARVEST OF EEU. Over four tons of eels he«B «i»P«cne« from Thorpe, in the Fens, within last few days, to London. They were of a trench being cut the sea order set free the Sped wnter. local fishermen industnously set inter cepting the fish ...
... NATURE NOTES. AN INCONVENIENT SWARM. A lady waa bag is bar garden when • swarm of bass settled os bar head. The owner of the been, • neighbour, brought a tire and took them off. Rh* war not stung at all. PUSHY AND BUNNY. Finding that one of her kittens ...
... NATURE NOTES. BASKING SHARKS IN IRISH WATERS. Spotted Flycatchers at Castlewellan. POPLAR HAWK MOTH. Apropos the large flsh caught in a net near Torr Head last week are asked If ever in Ireland Basking Sharks (probably the species of the Torr specimen) ...
... NATURE NOTES. Tan Swamln What apsrs to be the smallest known has - ben described in India by Dr. X i kanandais. It is only 1-120th of aa with a spread of wings of 1-30th ofsm end belongs to the Hymenoptera. order including ante, bees, and wasps. It hes ...