204 THE CANADIAN NATURALIST. 



BARRED OWL. 



(Strix Nehulosa.) 



C. — What light is that before us ? 



F, — It is the Firefly (Lampyris Corusca) ; which illu- 

 minates our summer nights with its radiance. When I 

 came up the country from the St. Lawrence, travelling late 

 one evening, I first saw these pretty insects. The light, you 

 see, is of a yellow colour, like that of flame, and very differ- 

 ent from the blue gleam of our English glowworm : from this 

 circumstance, I at first took them for candles in the woods, 

 and though told what they were, at every one that appeared, 

 the same idea would come across my mind, that it was 

 some one in the woods, carrying a candle, until I became 



