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lis (on R. R. from Albany to coast) is 

 good. Mary's Peak (40cx> to 5000 ft.) 

 in Coast Range, \vill repay a visit ; take 

 R. R. from Albany to Philomath, road 

 3 miles, trail 5 miles. Trail runs up 

 through untouched forest; on summit 

 is a large grassy pasture and a fine view 

 of the Cascade Mts., including nine 

 snowclad peaks. 



Portla7id. Go up on the Heights 

 and reconnoitre. Take trolley-car to 

 Columbia slough for flower-loving 

 insects. Do not miss trip by steamer 

 up Columbia River to Hood River or 

 Dalles east of Cascades, — an all-day 

 ride. From Hood River one may go 

 by stage to Cloud Cap Inn at timber- 

 line on Mt. Hood. 



Western Washington is much like the 

 Willamette Valley, l)ut more tiiickly 

 wooded. For forests try Ainslie or 

 Napavine ; for open mixed country 

 Chehalis or Centralia. Tenino is very 

 good, — stream, forest, clearings, prai- 

 rie pastures, etc. Treeless gravel plains 

 at Yelm Prairie. Fine old forests in 

 vicinity of Wilkeson and Carbonado, 



— by R. R. from Tacoma. Tacoma 

 presents a good variety on the outskirts 

 of the city, — salt-marshes, fields, forests, 

 lakes and gravel plains 6 to 10 miles 

 southwest. 



These are a few of the more desirable 

 localities and chiefly those with which 

 I became personally acquainted. There 

 are, of course, many intermediate 

 points that will repay examination if a 

 relatively small area is covered or a 

 particular section is to l)e investigated. 

 The coastwise country may be reached 

 by steamers from San Francisco or 

 Portland and thence from port to port 

 as opportunity ofiei-s, or in some cases by 

 railroad or stage. If preferied, one 

 may, at a slight increase of expense, 

 secure a ticket over the Coast division 

 of the So. Pacific R. R. between Los 

 Angeles and San Francisco, thus reach- 

 ing Santa Barbara, the Salinas Valley, 

 and other portions of this region. A 

 trip to the Yosemite Valley may be 

 made from San Francisco (by steamer 

 to Stockton, etc.) for less than from 

 Berenda, the usual a]3proach. 



BUTTERFLY LIFE IN THE TROPICS OF INDIA. 



[In a recent paper by Messrs. David- Collectors in other parts of India often 



son, Bell and Aitken on the butterflies write of the number of broods in the 



of the North Canara district of the Bom- year in terms which imply more reg- 



bay Presidency,in which particular atten- ularity than we have observed in this 



tion is paid to the early stages, we find moist and equable climate. We are 



the following passage, which presents not inclined to think that the majority 



in a few words a striking contrast to of species here have any fixed number 



what is found in temperate regions and of broods in the year. One generation 



which may therefore interest our succeeds another as fast as conditions 



readers.] permit. It would be difficult to name 



