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of green gauze, (I prefer green to white.) The one I commonly use, and 

 which I find the most generally useful, is the bat-folding one or clap net, 

 about four feet long, and one foot six inches wide; I prefer this 

 small size as a larger net is apt to catch the wind, and prevent 

 that quick action which is absolutely necessary to secure the 



JVbctuce, etc., etc.; there should be a division with a common 

 ferrule, similar to that in a fishing-rod, about a foot and a half 

 from the top; being taken to pieces, it will then easily go into a 

 shooting-coat pocket. Having taken your Fly, you now want 

 the proper pins and box to convey it home. Of pins you must 

 have a large supply, to be obtained at Edelsten and Williams's, 

 Crown Court, Cheapside, at various prices per ounce; the most 

 useful sizes I find to be 8 and 10; of course a few larger 

 may be required — No. 13. Your box had better be made of 

 tin, say about seven inches long, by four and a half wide, and 

 two deep, lined with sponge on one side, which, being kept damp, 

 will prevent your specimens becoming dry before you have leisure 

 to set them, and with cork on the other. The box should be 

 round at both ends, it will then go into a smaller pocket than 

 one that is square. A small tin box also for conveying home chrysalides 

 should be your constant companion in your daily excursions; such a one 

 as gunsmiths use for keeping copper caps in will be found sufficiently 

 capacious for all ordinary purposes. The smaller Flies may be killed by 

 pressure on the thorax, having previously closed the wings backwards; but 

 I strongly recommend chloroform for all, small as well as large, therefore 

 you must be provided with a wide-necked bottle, the stopper impregnated 

 with it, of which said bottle more hereafter. 



(7o be continued.) 



A SPRING WALK. 



BT 0. S. ROUND, ESQ. 



The Spring is certainly a most charming season, it must strike every 

 one in this light, much as we hear of cold April and chilly May, but 

 none so much as a lover of Nature, who finds every hour which advances 

 towards the summer enhancing his pleasures, and increasing the number 

 of objects the study of which constitutes his whole delight. It matters 

 little that he has seen the same eflfects produced before, the same train of 

 feathered visitants fill the woods and the fields, and haunt the margins of 

 the streams, the same routine acted over again, in every subject of the 

 vast magazine of Nature; there is ever a freshness belonging to this sub- 



