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the tree ? he naively observed, that persons sometimes came pottering at 

 the roots as he thought for hedge-hogs ! We now wound round to the 

 viUage of Edwinstowe^ where at the " Old Jug and Glass " a comfortable 

 private room had been prepared for us. 



Having dined, we went to the forest. Amongst the insects we 

 captured, may be noted the following : — Ganonymplia pampMlus ; Vanessa 

 urticce ; Chrysophanus phlcBcis ; Plujtometra cenea ; Tephrosia punctulata ; 

 Ephyra punctaria ; Lozogramma petraria. 



At dusk the sugar bait was resorted to, but without any success. 

 This failure may perhaps be accounted for by our visit being a fortniglxt 

 too early, and the large quantity of bloom upon many of the trees. 



Our labours for this day being over, we sat down upon the velvety 

 sward, and abandoned ourselves to the indulgence of feelings, which the 

 almost primeval nature of things around inspired — feeling the deep 

 impression of a charm and hidden meaning in this grandeur, far removed 

 from all things terrestrial ! Our " elysium " was doomed to be of shoi't 

 duration, for the hooting of the Barn Owl [Strix fiammea) not very politely 

 intruded itself; it was shortly joined by the Shorteared Owl (Strix 

 hrachyotusj and Longeared Owl f Strix otus); which together with the 

 interminable duet of the Night-jar (Caprimulgus europceus) produced a 

 concert of strange sounds, not by any means familiar to the ears of persons 

 resident in manufacturing towns. 



The morning broke in all its splendour — all nature was lovely — to 

 rejoice with her smiling brightness was but an instinctive act. A few 

 paces and we were greeted with the shrill notes of the Swift (Cypselus 

 apusj. In our walk we noticed of the warblers, the Kedstart (Sylvia 

 pjhcenicurus ) , Black Cap [S. atricapilla), Garden Warbler (S. hortensis), White 

 Throat {S. cinerea), Wood Wren {S. sibilatrix), Willow Wren [S. trochilus), 

 Chiffchaff (S. rufa). The songs of these warblers were being continually 

 intermixed with the notes of the Great Titmouse (Pants major), Blue 

 Titmouse (P. cceruleus), Cole Titmouse (P. ater), the Stonechat (Sylvia 

 ruhicola), Whinchat [S. rubetra), with the occasional notes of the Wryneck 

 (Yiinx torquilla), and the Green Woodpecker (Picus viridis), Spotted Wood- 

 pecker (P. major), and Stock Dove (Colnmba anas). To the contemplative 

 naturalist — these, with a whole host of the feathered tribe, swelling the 

 majestic chorus, with the ever hovering voice of the Cuckoo (Cuculus 

 canorus) as if conducting the whole, — produces an effect indescribably 

 grand. 



