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than eight species of the Cicindel'dae frequented it, viz., longilabris, 

 6-guttata, Umhalis, purpurea, vulgaris, 12-guttata, repanda and //?>//- 

 coll is. 



I took Lexis bicolor Grote on this road. Tliecla tikis Fabr. 

 was plentiful there, and Debis portlandia Fabr., Phyciodes nycteis 

 Dbl. and Pamphila paniscus Fabr. were there to be seen. 



Where the road passed through damp woods, a plant that 

 attracted attention was the White Lettuce (Nabalus altissimus 

 Hooker). Its stout stems rose like spires, from the wayside, tall 

 as a man, and clothed with long leaves. This plant is a habitation 

 and food-store for Aulax nabali Brodie. By slitting its stalks late 

 in the season, the cells or cocoons of the species may be found. 

 The imagos bite their ways of exit from their hibernacula in March. 



Eastern Township Lanes. — There are lanes and by-ways in 

 the Eastern Townships that more nearly resemble the green lanes 

 of England than those I have spoken of, and interesting objects 

 appear in them. Riding slowly through one such lane in the year 

 1867, I witnessed a sight which I had never seen before, and which 

 I do not expect to see again, namely — a small flight of Passenger 

 Pigeons {Ectopistes migratorius). There were seven or eight of 

 them. They lit on some second growth maples a few yards in 

 advance of me. They flapped their wings, and flirted their long 

 tails, and preened their fine plumage, greatly to my delight. 



Two other kinds of birds, especially worthy of notice that 

 came under my observation in the Eastern Townships' lanes were 

 the Great Grey Ov/1 {Scotiaspex nebulosa) and the Barred Owl 

 (Strix varia). The former whose big round head seemed too large 

 for his body was greatly disturbed at my appearance. It rolled 

 its head and fidgeted and blinked at me, but seemed to doubt the 

 propriety of taking flight — it may have been recently mobbed by 

 other birds. I left it unmolested to its wise cogitations. 



The Barred Owl is a smaller bird — trim and alert. 



Green lanes in those parts are frequented by the strangely 

 elusive and tantalizing butterfly Grapta j-album, Boisd. & LeC. 

 It is an insect of rich colouring and powerful wing. It rises before 

 you, and you watch its direct and rapid flight, and note the spot 

 where it alights. You hasten thither, and, drawing nigh, walk 



