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wildest, and most barren of the Highlands : here was the 

 home of the wild tribe, so graphically described by Sir 

 Waller Scott in his 'Legend of Montrose.' These "Children 

 of the Mist" lived for years in these mountain fastnesses, 

 secure from the harrowing attacks of the great M'CuUura 

 More's little less fierce followers, until hunted down by them 

 and Allan M'Aulay, whose deep-rooted revenge against them 

 never let him rest. I could not help thinking over all this as 

 I stood on an eminence, from which 1 could see upwards of 

 twenty mountain peaks, none of less altitude than 3000 feet, 

 many then clad with patches of snow. I marvelled at the 

 many changes which had passed since the days when Ranald 

 MacEagh, " Son of the Mist," and his son Kenneth trudged 

 with brawny brown legs over perhaps the very ground now 

 occupied by three peaceful "fly-catchers." But I must return 

 to what I was going to say. 



After a weary walk we reached the cottage; being received 

 by a salute of barking collies, which to one of my friends, 

 recently from London, was no source of pleasure. After re- 

 freshing ourselves with Miss Campbell's scones, oat-cake, and 

 cream, we started work for the night: one contingent sugared 

 high on the mountain-side, while the other two did the 

 same on a mountain bog. Your readers will imagine the 

 astonishment of all, as night drew near, to find the moths 

 flying steadily in one direction, quite oblivious of the many 

 patches of intoxicating sweets we had prepared. The next 

 best thing to do was to find out what was the attraction. I 

 need not ask my readers to guess what it was, — for who 

 would think of sallow-blossoms at midsummer.'' But so 

 they were; and an odd thing it seemed to find such a mixed 

 company at the feast. Here is a list of them : — The genus 

 Hadena seemed to replace our more familiar — at sallows — 

 genus Taeniocarapa, for in hundreds were Hadena adusta, 

 H. glauca, H. dentina, H. pisi (in all sorts of variety), 

 H. contigua, and H. rectilinea; H. dentina being in decided 

 majority. In addition to these we took an occasional 

 Acronycta myricae, with A. menyanthidis, Noctua plecla, 

 Rusina tenebrosa, a few Ypsipetes ruberata, and one Notodonta 

 dictaeoides. Excepting the absence of a single decently rare 

 moth, the above list is decidedly interesting, as being such 

 an odd mixture of species captured on a single night at sallow- 



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