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make out, turned round and informed his companions that I was a 

 doctor. After this, I often had two or three soldiers following me, 

 and they would run after butterflies, knock them down with their 

 fezB, and bring me the mangled remains ! I used to pretend to be 

 much obliged, and rewarded them with cigarettes. 



The Turkish soldiers and peasantry are a fine set of fellows, and 

 I always met with the greatest civility from them. Many of the 

 farms in the neighbourhood of Gallipoli are owned, or rented, by 

 Greeks, and the difference between the two races was most marked. In 

 this country, where there are scarcely any public roads, one had con- 

 stantly to pass through vineyards and gardens, where the Turk would 

 always salute one courteously, and often offer fruit ; whereas, the 

 Greek would scowl and mutter what (if one could have understood it) 

 was doubtless abuse. 



But to return to Bulair. I was often fond of landing early in 

 the morning, before breakfast, bathing in the beautiful blue water, 

 and then taking a stroll for an hour over the sandhills into the rushy 

 plain beyond. Calandra larks at this time of the day would be in full 

 song overhead ; terns busily flitted along shore, and occasionally darted 

 down and secured a silvery little fish, although withal angry at the 

 invasion of their domain, for they were nesting close at hand, as were 

 also Kentish plovers, and on the plain, a colony of pratincoles. Amongst 

 the rushes on the sandhills several species of Ino buzzed about com- 

 monly, also Botys sanguinaHs, and a long-legged queer-looking Pyrale 



{Ilurgia ■ ?, a species I saw unnamed in the British Museum), 



while the larva? of Thais cerisyi in certain places were frequent. Just 

 above high water mark, on plants of Verhascum nigrum, larva? of Melitcea 

 Trivia were abundant, and one morning, while taking some of them, I 

 noticed a tiny ball of dusky down hiding away beneath a bunch of 

 leaves, and, upon picking it up, discovered 1 had found a young Little 

 Tern, such a pretty creature. Upon setting it down, it ran off sturdily, 

 and soon hid itself again, to the evident satisfaction of its parents, who 

 were clamouring vociferously overhead. The plains produced Mela- 

 nargia Larissa, Folyommatus Tkersamon, Agrojjhila sulphuraUs, &c, 

 in numbers, and I generally went on board to breakfast with my 

 boxes full. 



It will be observed that the following list (wherein I have adopted 



the arrangement and nomenclature of Dr. Staudinger) contains very 



few Noctuce and Geometrw, and this is owing to the fact that it was 



not considered safe to go into the country after nightfall, as there 



were many tramps and refugees about, who might have attempted to 



rob one, although by day, I have been miles away by myself, and was 



never mo'ested. 



(To be continued). 



