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... 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 ...
... NATURE NOTES. The following extract** are taken from the “Northern Whig” of Saturday laet: ...
... NATURE NOTES. bird life at the waterwob A visit to the public pond of the uterworks, Antrim Road, is always mg' this season of the \ear, as Teal. Seagull, Mallard, Cormorant, and are to be seen there. The Teals are v ...
... Nature Notes. Education of Young Cirds. Last summer, writes T. 11. in the Glasgow Timis, I watched two young king. fishers, which were beir.g fed by tf••• ,, +arena near the nesting hole. The two would sit about ou projecting roots and snags, their ...
... NATURE NOTES. OUR COMMON BIRDS. The Warblers. We now reach the Sylvida*. or. Warblers, large family confined to the old world, and containing about three hundred species. They are small birds quiet hues, brown, white, and grey being the prevailing colours ...
... NATURE NOTES. 1 i , , . SOMETHING LIKE AN EGG. egg weighing s}oz., and measuring eight inches in circumference, has been laid Nottingham hen. A WONDERFUL CAVE. One of the largest caves ever explored has recently been discovered on Lime Fork Creek, in ...
... NATURE NOTES across a few primroses in sheltered .ot a ago. In the fi ’**'**■ pclyantifts flgwcr' beginning gold. ...
... NATURE NOTES The Martins Last week our subject was the swallow, and this week I intend to write little about his two cousins, the house martin and the sand martin. Both are summer visitors to these islands and both hawk for their food on the wing like ...
... NATURE NOTES Autumn The autumn is now with us and the days are colder —the nights very appreciably so and our summer bird visitors are going or have gone. The swallow family is already greatly depleted in numbers. and our old friend the cuckoo and the ...
... NATURE NOTES. TOWN SPARROWS. At about iiosta.ei of the yer town dwelling Ppano , AF, leave the cities aid take their young with them. They all make straight for the country iind invade the cannot& other wowing crops. Tht lig tlooke of evarrows now to ...
... NATURE NOTES. ' V. Hoo. ----- A bog on a farm in Panama recently fought lye black snakes at the same time, killing two. The hog had bugowed beneath a barn, and the snakes attempted to claim the hole. When the farmer's man appeared, the old hog on its ...
... NATURE NOTES. THE CAMEL CANT SWIM. The camel cannot swim. Extraordinary though it sounds, the moment this animal long ite looting in a stream it turns aurr, and makes no effort to save itself from drowning. MISTAKEN FOR BISONS. In the great Arkansas Valley ...