92 REVIEW. THE QUERIST, 



Hybernating Papilionidce, etc. — I have at the present time flying about 

 in, apparently, the full enjoyment of good and sound health, Ooneptenjx 

 rhamni, (Brimstone,) Pontia Brassica, (Cabbage,) Vanessa Atalanta and 

 Io, (Admiral and Peacock Butterflies,) with four Musca domestica, or House 

 Fly, under a globe-glass, in which I have growing a nice plant of Lyco- 

 podium apodum, in my sitting-room. Query, may not this little fact be 

 turned to account by those who have time and leisure? D.V. I shall 

 pay more attention to this subject this autumn myself, and record the 

 results in the pages of "The Naturalist." — J. Mc' Intosh, The Grove, 

 January, 1857. 



Urairm. 



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A naturalist, it must be taken for granted, is, and must be, at all 

 events one of "Nature's gentlemen." It is not therefore for me, as their 

 guide in the fashions of nature, to suppose but that every one of my good 

 readers is perfect in politeness — a very Chesterfield improved upon, as I am 

 quite sure he (Chesterfield I mean) might be much and easily. Nevertheless, 

 perhaps some of their acquaintance, if themselves do not, may require a 

 few "Hints on Etiquette," in a second and much improved edition, as it 

 were, of "Agogos," and for their behoof I bring under their notice the 

 work whose title is prefixed. Some reviewers think, or seem to think, that 

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 whether justly or unjustly, with the works they have to speak of. Others 

 have to strain a point to speak well of any. In the present instance there 

 is no fault to be found, nor any difficulty in speaking well of this "littel 

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In a little book, published some time ago by Binns and Goodwin, of 

 Bath, on the Eggs of British Birds, by C. Jennings, mention is made of 

 the Nettle-Bird and the Gorse-Bird. Will you kindly inform me, through 

 the medium of "The Naturalist," what birds she means, as she has not 

 given the scientific names in addition to those mentioned. — T. R. Simonds, 

 Brighton, January 22nd., 1857. 



I presume that the Whitethroat or Nettle-Creeper is the species intended 

 by the Nettle-Bird. What the Gorse-Bird is I do not know. — Perhaps 

 the Stonechat. — F. 0. Morris. 



