AN ARCADIAN CALENDAR 



Moths a day-flier, it seems to find protection from 

 Like Birds the birds in its black-and-white motley, 

 as does its caterpillar, that arch lover of 

 currant leaves. The magpie is remarkable in keeping the 

 same colour-scheme when a moth as in earlier stages of 

 life, as though it could wish for no better protective 

 arrangement. We have one moth which not only has 

 bird-like markings, but suggests a bird's form, the 

 Emperor moth of the moors, which, when seated on 

 its heathery throne, wears a curious look of an owl. The 

 curved and plump body suggests an aggressive beak, 

 which may well scare the birds. 



THE affairs of a pair of swallows which nested half-way 

 down the open chimney of a village inn 

 The have been watched with mild interest by 



Chimney the village topers. Nowadays it is rare to 

 Swallows find swallows entitled to their old-time 

 name, " chimney swallows." Possibly these 

 birds are descendants of a pair which built in the same 

 risky site a hundred years ago. The young birds have 

 joined forces with others bred in the inn's outbuildings, 

 and in a party a score strong spend idle morning hours 

 basking on the inn roof, where their parents also rest, 

 with much joyous warbling, for long spells, as if con- 

 serving strength for a voyage in prospect. 



THE swallows, now beginning to congregate, know only 

 one bird of prey which has the habit of 

 The hunting them in this country, our rare little 



Swallows' summer visitor, the hobby. Though mar- 

 Owe vellously fast, he has no easy task in hawk- 

 Enemy ing swallows, though they may be gathered 



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