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charm in the sound, that independently of the music, the 

 songs of birds are always songs of pleasure. We sing in 

 many moods, and for many purposes, but the birds only 

 when they are happy. No notes of birds have an under- 

 tone of sadness in them. Beautiful, too, in the early 

 summer, is it to mark here the glow of the red horizontal 

 sunlight, as it lies softly amid the branches of the golden- 

 budded oak, and the milk-white blossoms of the tall wild 

 cherries. Oh ! how thoughtless is it of people to let 

 themselves be scared away from Botany by its evil but 

 undeserved reputation for "hard names," when, with a 

 tenth of the effort given to the study of chess or whist, 

 they might master everything needful, and enter intel- 

 ligently into this sweet and sacred Temple of Nature. 



The interest of the Bollin valley is quite as great 

 to the entomologist as to the botanist. By the kindness 

 of my friend, Mr. Edleston, I am enabled here to add 

 the following list of the Lepidoptera, which will be read 

 with pleasure by every one acquainted with the exquisite 

 forms and patrician dresses of English butterflies. 



"The meadows," he tells me, "near the river Bollin, 

 from Bank Hall to Castle Mill, produce more diurnal 

 Lepidoptera than any other locality in the Manchester 

 district, as the following select list (1858) will suffice to 

 prove": 



Gonepteryx Rhamni Brimstone 



Pieris Brassicce Large White 



,, Rapes Small White 



,, Napi Green- veined White 



