212 THE QUERIST. 



Liparis monacha in Lincolnshire. — I had two L. monacha out of chrysalis 

 the day before yesterday. I found the caterpillars ready to change under 

 some dead bark on an oak tree in Legsby Wood. — W. Waldo Cooper, 

 Rectory, West Rasen, July 17th., 1857. 



Purple Emperor in Lincolnshire. — A Purple Emperor was taken in the 

 Rectory garden at Linwood last week, by one of the Rev. W. Stockdale's 

 sons. The fly was seen there last year, but escaped. — Idem. 



Swallow roosting in a hedge. — I was walking the other evening along- 

 side a large high old-fashioned hedge, when a Swallow scuttled out of the 

 upper part of it. It had evidently been roosting there. It was just 

 in the "duskling" of the evening, sufficiently dark for moths to be flying, 

 and sufficiently light for me to see the Swallow quite distinctly. I do 

 not remember ever to have noticed a like circumstance before. — F. 0. 

 Morris, Nunburnholnie Rectory, July 21st., 1857. 



Erebia blandina, etc. — When botanizing on Craig Koynack, Braemar, one 

 forenoon in the beginning of August last, we had the good fortune to come 

 upon abundance of E. blandina upon the rocks and the brakes at their 

 base, but unfortunately had no appliances to lay in a supply this season. 

 In this district A. Aglaia is plentiful, and occasionally we find S. Davus. — 

 W. Sutherland, M.A. 



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The Ringed Guillemot. — Referring to the paper on the Ringed Guillemot, 

 by Mr Gray, in the present number of "The Naturalist," Mr. J. Wolley 

 is stated to have asserted at a meeting of the British Association in 1850, 

 as the result of his experience during a two-month's visit to the Ferroc 

 Isles, that the Ringed and Common Guillemots breed there promiscuously, 

 in the proportion of one Ringed bird to ten without that ornament; that 

 he collected the eggs of both, and could not distinguish them. May I 

 be permitted to inquire whether by breeding promiscuously is meant that 

 the Ringed pair with the Common Guillemot, or merely that pairs of 

 Ringed birds breed in the same locality with the Common, in the proportion 

 of one to ten? If the former, would it not settle the question at once, 

 in favour of the Ringed being only a variety? But if the latter, and 

 the Ringed birds are always found to pair together, though breeding in 

 the same locality with the Common or Ringless birds, would it not as 

 certainly determine the Ringed Guillemot to be a separate species? — E. K. B., 

 Kennington, August 4th., 1857. 



This is a very sensible question to put, and has come opportunely for 

 a paper I am writing on the subject, to read at the meeting of the British 

 Association at Dublin, on the 2Gth.— F. 0. Mc^i^^gttst 7th., 1857. 



