216 THE QUERIST. 



My readers have it here, and I think I can calculate with confidence 

 upon their verdict in favour of Hera "on the evidence." 



To these questions I now add — 



5th. — Is there any other instance of the productions of one part of a 

 country being considered as belonging to that country, and those of another 

 part not? 



6th. — Which is farthest from the English coast, Guernsey or Shetland; 

 the birds, etc. of which latter are on all hands allowed to be British? 



August 4:th., 1856. F. 0. MORRIS. 



Capture of Birds in Brunswick Square, Brighton. — In May, 1855, I 

 caught a fine male Nightingale in the garden enclosure of Brunswick 

 Square, Brighton, as well as several Whitethroats, Whinchats, and Red- 

 starts, both male and female. I have also seen there abundance of Willow 

 Wrens and Chifl-Chaflfs in the spring, one of the former of which I caught. 

 This year I again noticed birds of the same kind in Brunswick Square, 

 and caught several, as well as a Sedge Warbler. Considering the publicity 

 of Brighton, it appears rather a curious fact that these birds should resort 

 here annually. The Square seems to be a favourite resting-place on their 

 first arrival in this country, but they seldom remain more than two or 

 three days. — Charles D. Pothill, 17, Brunswick Square, Brighton, July 

 3rd., 1856. 



Singular treatment of a Fly ly a Wasp. — Last summer I was watching 

 attentively the movements of a wasp in a window, when, suddenly, to my 

 amazement, it pounced upon a large fly. A combat immediately ensued, 

 in which the wasp, apparently from the commencement of the attack the 

 more powerful of the two, came off victorious. It then adopted a mode 

 of treatment resembling, on a small scale, that practised by conquerors in 

 uncivilized times — proceeding to put to death its fallen foe by torturing it. 

 First of all, the poor fly was deprived of its wings, then mounted and 

 compelled by the occasional application of its conqueror's sting to run up 

 and down the pane of glass with great rapidity. When this had been 

 done, evidently to the satisfaction of the wasp, it separated the legs of the 

 poor fly from its body, and leaving it in this deplorable condition, flew 

 away, as if triumphing over its victory. — Thomas Foggitt, Thirsk, July 

 12th., 1856. 



Great Crested Grebe. — You will find the Great Crested Grebe at page 

 198 of the 1831 edition of Montagu's book, under the name of "Gaunt." 

 The book is, I think, quite worthless, from the difficulty of understanding 

 what bird Rennie really means in most instances. — Henry Smurthwaite, 

 Richmond, July 1st., 1856. 



