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WILD LIFE AT HOME. 



i:i: MINK MOTH. 



" sugar "jnay be met with, but they are very difficult to 

 photograph on account of their constant and rapid 

 movements. .One night, after an unsuccessful turn 

 at " sugaring," I was getting over a field gate on 

 my way home, with a bull's-eye in one hand and 

 the " sugar " pot and brush in the other, when I 

 noticed something white fly against the gate-post, 

 close to my right hand, in which I held the lantern, 

 and drop to the ground. Upon searching I found an 

 ermine moth, and placed it on the leaf of a chestnut 

 tree growing close by. Whether it had been attracted 

 by the light I carried and stunned itself in colliding 

 with the post I cannot say, but we were astonished 



