104 THE PROMINENT MOTHS OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. 
mine should induce them to employ their spare moments in trying, 
during the next few years, to breed and make a collection of the 
Buckinghamshire Prominents, they will find it a source of un- 
flageing interest and unceasing delight. I have now almost given 
up entomology for my flower garden but I reckon amongst the 
happiest days of my life those in which I used to shoulder my 
sheet and pole to thrash the oaks in the sunny glades for the 
gorgeous larva of the regal trepida; or hunt the maple bushes in 
the deeper shades for the smaller but no less rare and beautiful 
caterpillar of eweullina. 
The Lirds of Cookhan and the Heighvourhood, 
Continued from page 84. 
Before commencing another page of this paper on the orni- 
thology of our neighbourhood I must express my heartfelt regret 
that it will be continued without the coadjutation of my friend 
Mr, Briggs, who was suddenly removed from amongst us on the 
5th of April last. For many years Mr. Briggs was my firm 
supporter and ally in the pursuit of ornithology, and I was in 
the habit of taking down to him the M8. of the present paper to 
get his additional notes before sending it to press. I shall en- 
deayour, of course, to remember all that he told me respecting 
the species hereafter to be treated of, but I had hoped to have 
made our journal the receptacle of many of his interesting notes 
and experiences, the record of which, as unfortunately with so many 
naturalists, dies with him. 
Subfam. Srrrina. 
Genus, SITTA, 
Sitta ceesia. The Common Nuthatch. 
The Scandinavian Nuthatch, the true Svtta Huropea of Linneeus 
differs from our bird in having the under parts white, without 
a ring of the bright rufous coloming so conspicvous in the 
