... NATURE NOTES. A SLACK ULY. • bLaok lily sew to missed ham Wm covered by Alacritous at Nueva Cassese, Souther* Luzon. in the Phibrpises. AA odour of Misted Sash, and many blue bottle-ties led them to hid it under dense vegetatior The pleat a called Maj ...

... NATURE NOTES. HE LIKEO NEW-LAID EGOS. Some friends of on« of our readers keep fowls, a clog, which has been in the habit of riming loose. After the birds had started laying the owners could not imagine why they suddenly stopped. Judge of their surprise ...

... NATURE NOTES “GETTING OLD AT A handsome villain Recent correspondence In the News-Letter's columns has prompted me to write about that criminal of the sea-shore, the Great Black-backed Gull. The largest of our sea-gulls, he measures nearly two and a half ...

... NATURE NOTES. BIRDS SS The tradition is that the caged bird which escapes will be killed by the birds of freedom. It is far more certain that a wild bird Introduced into an aviary of domesticated oses will to run the gauntlet. The caged bird thinks a ...

... NATURE NOTES. A MAMMOTH MUSHROOM. A mushroom meuuriitg lOin. is flirniMitof baa been gathered Urmaton, BEES IM THE LAMP. A swarm of beea took poasaaaion of aigna lamp on the Uidlend line at Fiaedoa, porter having considerable trouble in removing the insects ...

... NATURE NOTES Edible Seaweeds week I was writing on the use of seaweed for industrial and scientific purposes and just touched on the fact that some species were useful for human consumption. nils week lam going to deal with the three types of seaweed ...

... NATURE NOTES The sea birds (continued) TTie next bird in our list of gulls is the black-headed, or more correctly the brown-headed, for on close Inspection the apparently black head will be found to be of a very dark brown colour. This dainty little gull ...

... NATURE NOTES. EFFECTS OF RECENT BLIZZARD. Nesting Records. With last Bevero blizzard coming season has received severe repulse, February has always been regarded fickl' month, but such things unlocked and uncalled for wh. old. There is little doubt that ...

... NATURE NOTES A few days’ sunshine with a good drying wind have raised the farmers’ hopes again, and in many places harvesting of oats and wheat are in full swing. Even the slowripening barley will soon be ready. On the foreshore the dulce harvest is being ...

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... Nature Notes. THE HOUSE RAT—THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE ANIMAL IN THE WORLD. Some Astounding Figure*. economic loss due t/» Rats is extensive or exact statistics on the subject are available; but estimates of annual Rat damage some countries made previous tb© ...

... nature notes. Ring Ouzel Appears Ulster. ...