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the colour of those of a ferret. It is stated that such a bird has not 

 been soon or shot in Thanet for many years. — Extracted. 



Varieties of LErmonKRv. — At the March Meeting of the Dover 

 Field Club and Natural History Society, the President exhibited 

 specimens of the common peacock butterfly (Vanessa lo) to show 

 a gradation from the normal type to the variety known as the 

 blind peacock. The latter insect owes its name to the blurred 

 appearance of the eye-like spot, which gives to this butterfly its 

 English title. In the first of the specimens, the eyes on the hind 

 wings were of an intense black hue, totally unrelieved by the usual blue 

 scales. In the second, the black itself was partly wanting, a couple of 

 spots within the paler circle alone remaining to point out the situation ; 

 whilst in the third specimen, these too were absent, and the opalescent 

 white had been replaced by a unifonn duskiness. 



DisTOETED Bloom of Foxglove. — On October 14th, 1889, at the 

 Monthly Meeting of the East Kent Natural History Society, Mr. James 

 Reid shewed a bloom of foxglove, from Mr. J. "W". Newham, in which 

 the axial bud growth had developed into one large petaloid growth of 

 bell-shaped form, the calyx being multiple, and partly petaloid in 

 its division. A few stamens appeared within the bell, but the develop- 

 ment of seed vessel and contents, was represented by a confused mass 

 of sepals and petals in narrow segments. 



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