JUNE. 147 



Things should make rapid headway now. Farmers tell me these 

 welcome rains will save the hay crop from being the poor one it 

 looked like being a few weeks ago. Lark singing, and House 

 Sparrows fighting like demons in the garden. Thunder showers during 

 the day 



8th. Thunder showers; bright between. Lark and Whitethroat 

 singing near the garden. The Sparrows early this morning were utter- 

 ing all manner of indescribable notes on the housetops. 



9th. Showery. The Hawthorn does not seem to be that mass of 

 white which is generally to be seen during May or early June; more- 

 over, it does not look now as if it will be so dense this season. Being 

 so late, it seems to have missed that huge mass of blossom. 



A list of Butterflies which may be looked for during June is 

 appended: Swallow-tail, Black-veined White (this latter is quite a 

 rare species now, and is included for what it may be worth), Large 

 Garden White, Small Garden White, Green-veined White, Orange-tip 

 (the male only has the delicate tip of orange on the wings, the female 

 being like a very small White Butterfly; this is the last time the Orange- 

 tip will be included in our lists, as during this month its all-too-brief 

 existence finishes), Wood White, Pale Clouded Yellow, Clouded Yellow, 

 Brimstone, Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary, Pearl-bordered Fritillary, 

 Silver-washed Fritillary, Greasy Fritillary, Glanville Fritillary, Heath 

 Fritillary, Comma, Small Tortoiseshell (this species is to be seen out 

 and about during the whole Butterfly season almost), Peacock (one 

 of the most beautiful and one of the commonest of the Vanessas), Red 

 Admiral, Painted Lady, White Admiral (this is now an uncommon 

 species), Mountain Ringlet (strictly speaking, this is really the only 

 Alpine Butterfly found in Britain), Wall Butterfly (this is double- 

 brooded), Grayling, Meadow Brown, Marsh Ringlet (sometimes 

 called the Small Ringlet, but as the Mountain Ringlet Erebi a 

 epiphron is also called by the same name in many districts, the two 

 species must not be confounded), Small Heath (or Least Meadow 

 Brown), White-letter Hairstreak, Dark Hairstreak (the eggs are laid 

 in the Autumn on twigs of the Sloe), Green Hairstreak (the smallest 

 species of the genus), Small Copper (believed to be three-brooded; 

 a common, but exquisite Butterfly), Short-tailed Blue (a very rare 

 Butterfly), Brown Argus (although classed with the family of Blues, has 

 no blue about it), Common Blue (one of the jewels of our English 

 country-side), Adonis Blue, Azure Blue, Mazarine Blue (an exceedingly 

 rare species), Bedford Blue (smallest of the Blues ; almost, I believe, the 

 smallest British Butterfly), Large Blue (possesses a weak flight, large 



