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haunts, which I suspect to be the in- 

 terior mountainous parts of Kamt- 

 schatka. 



Old SyuAW 



Clangula liyciiialis. 



The males commence assuming their 

 dark nuptial plumage about the mid- 

 dle of April, most of them being in full 

 change the latter part of the month. 

 The time varies a great deal in differ- 

 ent individuals, so that while two 

 males, shot on the 2nd and 3rd of 

 June were in full nuptial plumage an- 

 other shot three days later had not 

 passed through more than half of the 

 change. 



It is one of the commonest ducks 

 on Bering Island, and is a resident 

 throughout the whole year. It breeds 

 on all the lakes and lakelets of the 

 island. The eggs of a full clutch con- 

 sisted of six. 



Buterflies and Moth Life- 



The winter time, while not the best 

 friend in which the collector of Butter- 

 flies and Moths can exercise the talents 

 of research and study he may possess, 

 yet the snow and frosts do not alto- 

 gether preclude the possibility of secur- 

 ing some good additions to the collec- 

 tion. Go out among the bare and 

 gloomy looking vegetation, look well 

 over the maples which almost invari- 

 ably line the streets of our towns and 

 villages. The Altociis Cecropia a 

 prince among beautiful moths often may 

 be taken in the cocoon in large num- 

 bers. Beneath walnut trees you oc- 

 casionally will make the lucky find of 

 dozens of Attaeiis Liiiia, to my eyes 

 the most beautiful moth in America, 

 hanging from the Boxwood and Wild 

 Cherry branches you sometimes find 



PrometJiea in considerable numbers. 

 While the ugly Ailantlnis trees give a 

 holding for the cradles of numerous 

 Attictis Cynthia, which by the way, 

 are a foreign moth, become domesti- 

 cated. Some moths, of course do not 

 emerge from the cocoon when the time 

 comes for the feeding to stop and the 

 larva to turn to the chrysalis, he de- 

 scends to the bottom of the tree and 

 buries himself in four or five inches of 

 earth, there to lie until spring warms 

 his sluggish juices into life and a new 

 winged beauty is given to the world. 

 The hint might be taken by some col- 

 lectors who, wondering where the pu- 

 pua; of certain caterpillars have gone, 

 does not think that what is beyond the 

 eyes-reach may be turned to the light 

 with a spade. 



The main difficulty in the collecting 

 of all sorts of Entomological specimens 

 — cocoon, chrysalis, Moth or Butter- 

 fly — appears to be explainable in the 

 fact that the specimens assume such 

 peculiar formations, especially in the 

 Larva that they are only to be learned by 

 study and experience does the explana- 

 tion come for many hours of baffled 

 study and curiosity. 



R. P. Froelich. 



New York City. 



Hampden, Mass., Dee. 20, 1894. 

 Walter F. Webb, Albiou, N. Y. 



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Toronto, December 26, 1894. 

 Walter F. Webb, Albion, N. Y. 



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