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duration, as the young were soon able to provide for theraselves, and the 

 advancing spring furnished them with a plentiful supply of their natural food. 



Here, as I supposed, ended our intercourse with this interesting and beau- 

 tiful little creature; but my surprise was great when about the middle of the 

 fulloioing loiiiter, and during some severe weather, our little tail-less friend 

 again made his appearance; not, however, with his former confidence and 

 fiimiliarity, but with much more caution, and even alarm, and as if rather to 

 take refuge from the attack of some enemy, than to obtain food, or resume 

 his old habits. He rested for a minute on the door, looking suspiciously around 

 him, then flew down, but soon rose again, and after flying round the room 

 in a hurried manner, endeavoured to hide himself behind the music-stand. In 

 short he appeared so uneasy and alarmed that I opened the window, and he 

 immediately darted out of it. He returned, however occasionally, by his old 

 entrance, but his visits were short, and he was wild and uneasy while with 

 us. After calling home in this manner, now and then, for about three weeks, 

 I totally lost him, and never again either saw him or discovered any traces 

 of him, and I greatly fear he fell a victim to one of our numerous cats, as 

 he was seen in the court by the servants two or three times, after he had 

 entirely discontinued his visits to the dressing-room. 



It may be asked by what means I could positively ascertain that this %oas 

 the same bird which had visited us the preceding winter. The loss of his 

 tail was a mark of distinction from others, (though I am surprised the 

 feathers had not grown again,) but from the minute observations on his plumage 

 and general appearance, which his familiarity had given me the opportunity 

 of making during a whole winter, I think I could have distinguished him 

 among any number of his species. The tamencss of the Robin is almost 

 proverbial; but there was almost a mixture of reason with the instincts 

 of this little animal; and the recollection for so many months of the 

 place where he had been sheltered during the preceding winter, and his 

 return to it at the same period of the following year, are very remarkable 

 circumstances. Had I taken this little bird, and confined him in a cage, I 

 might probably have kept him for years as a tame companion; but I could 

 not be so treacherous as to repay his unbounded confidence in us with the 

 loss of liberty. 



A FEW ADDITIONS TO MISS CATLOW'S 

 "ACCOUNT OF THE DIURNAL LEPIDOPTERA OF SUSSEX." 



BY W. C. UNWIK, ESQ. 



I WAS so much interested with Miss Catlow's pleasing account of the 

 Diurnal Lepidoptera of Sussex, that I have been tempted to place the 

 following additional species, the results of several years personal observation 

 in this neighbourhood, as a supplement to that lady's list. It may be well 



