16 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



Moth ; the Wattle Goat Moth, the Caper Butterfly, the Banksia 

 Beetle, Uracanthus trianyalaris, and the Banksia Borer, Cyria 

 imjierialis, might come under the heading of what may be termed 

 " collectors' insects," as they are large and mostly showy creatures, 

 but, if we except the Emperor Moth, which has taken to the 

 so-called Pepper trees, Schinus molle, as a food-plant, though no 

 doubt very destructive to our native vegetation, have not as yet 

 developed a taste for cultivated trees and plants. A chapter on 

 cyanide fumigation, and appendices containing descriptions of 

 spray pumps, &c., with illustrations, and a list of insect and blight- 

 destroying agents complete the volume. The plates are by 

 Messrs. C. C. and T. A. Brittlebank, and have been printed in 

 colours by Messrs. Sands and M'Dougall Limited or Troedel and 

 Co., and reflect great credit on both artists and printers. The 

 author is to be congratulated upon the conciseness and clearness 

 of his directions for dealing with the various pests, and it is to be 

 hoped that Part iv., which he says is in preparation, will be 

 published before many seasons are past. 



The True Quagga. — The Zoologist for February contains an 

 interesting article by Graham Renshaw, M.B., on the true Quagga, 

 which now, alas, can be counted among the extinct animals of 

 South Africa. Though this animal once existed in countless herds 

 both in Cape Colony and what was recently the Orange Free 

 State, and was proved to be an animal which could have been 

 domesticated and made serviceable to man, yet so great was the 

 slaughter of them for the sake of their hides that not a single 

 living specimen now exists, and, what is more to be regretted, they 

 are represented in very few museums. Mr. Renshaw has been at 

 considerable trouble to get a complete census of all the remains 

 treasured up in museums, with the following result : — England 

 possesses three stuffed specimens, three skeletons, and two skulls ; 

 United States, one skeleton ; Continent of Europe, ten stuffed 

 specimens and several skulls or skeletons ; while South Africa 

 possesses only one, and that Vi foal, in the Capetown Museum. 

 Thus has Eqnus quagga almost vanished from the face of the earth, 

 yet strangely enough its native home is a continent infested with 

 with the Tsetse P'ly, and cursed with horse-sickness, where it 

 might have been of immense service to those who have been 

 the means of its extermination. 



Parrakeets. — Mr. \V. T. Page, F.Z.S., in Nature Notes for 

 March gives a list of parrots and parrakeets which may be kept 

 out of doors all the year round in England. Among the species 

 mentioned are several Australian ones, such as the Rosella, the 

 Cockatoo Parrakeet, the Red-backed Parrakeet, the Pale-headed 

 Parrakeet, the King I>ory, and Pennant's Parrakeet. This latter 

 has bred out of doors in Yorkshire, one of the coldest and bleakest 

 English counties, 



