312 CORRESPONDENCE. 



To the Editor of the Naturalist. 

 My Dear Sir, — In reply to Dr. Liverpool, the Corn Bunting is most cer- 

 tainly very abundant in this and the adjoining county (Suffolk), evidently 

 preferring the more open fields to places where the enclosures are small and the 

 hedges tall. In this district it is as numerous as the Yellow Bunting ; and 

 several may be seen in a walk of a few miles round the town, perched upon the 

 top-most twigs of the fences adjoining the road. The nest is usually placed 

 among Corn, Clover, or Trefoil, and it is only when the two latter are cut that 

 we find it. The Bunting is certainly very late in its nidification. I have not 

 yet seen a single nest this season. 



I remain, my dear Sir, 



Yours very truly, 

 Thetfyrd, Norfolk, J. D. Salmon. 



June 14, 1837. 



[We shall be glad to receive further communications on this subject. — Ed, 



Some Account of a Wasp's Nest taken near Campsall Hall. 

 To the Editor of the Naturalist. 



My Dear Sir, — During the past week my attention was directed to the 

 existence of a Wasp's nest in a very peculiar situation. It had been discovered 

 by a labourer, and from the situation of the nest, and the appearance of the 

 insects, it was supposed to be a different species from the Common Wasp (Vespa 

 vulgaris). The nest was attached to the branch of a dead bough, near the lake at 

 Campsall Hall. It was nearly of a spherical shape,[and measured about 12 inches 

 in circumference. It was appended to the bough by its base ; there was an orifice 

 in it, at the most dependent part, about an inch in diameter, and it was situate 

 three or four inches from the ground. The external portion of the nest consisted 

 of four or five layers of fibrous matter, agglutinated with some wax-like substance. 

 The fibres were not so coarse as those of the covering of the nest of the 

 Common Wasp. Internally the combs consisted of three circular tiers, arranged 

 horizontally ; the lower-most of these was the smallest. Each tier was attached 

 to the one above it by a single pedicle extending from its centre. The hexagonal 

 cells of the combs diminished in size towards the circumference of each tier. 

 The cells, in number 500 or 600, were filled with young in different stages of 

 growth. Those most external were in the larva state, and the cells were open 

 below. The centre cells were closed over with a paper-like substance, and each 

 contained a Wasp in its pupa state. The external appearance of these cells 

 resembled a petrified bunch of grapes. 



The nest was taken by introducing under the orifice a squib of moistened gun- 



