.— On the slopes of Groat Cheviot, on tlio_ Scottish borders,, there are two great ravine?, sonic distance apart, called "Ilenholo" nnd "Tlic. Bizzoll." Kvery year either a pair of peregrine falcons or a pair of ravens nest in each; the curious fact is that Mtmctimes the ravens nest in Honhole, while the falcon; take up'their abode in the Bizzcll, and in othpr seasons their domiciles ore reversed, but they never both nest in the same ravine, nor has there boon for many years at least more than one pair of each bird in the locality. — Nearly nil insects have one pair of compound eyes. In the dragon-fly, grasshopper, and even thft common house-fly litest eyes are very conspicuous. In addition to this, pair of large compound eyes there are, in ni<;ny full-grown insects, simple oy-ij, in number from one io four, between the compound ones, ' '
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 13568, 16 April 1906, Page 9
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145Page 9 Advertisements Column 4 Otago Daily Times, Issue 13568, 16 April 1906, Page 9
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