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wildest, and most barren of the Highlands: here was the 
home of the wild tribe, so graphically described by Sir 
Walter Scott in his ‘ Legend of Montrose.’ These “Children 
of the Mist” lived for years in these mountain fastnesses, 
secure from the harrowing attacks of the great M‘Cullum 
More’s little less fierce followers, until hunted down by them 
and Allan M‘Aulay, whose deep-rooted revenge against them 
never let him rest. I could not help thinking over all this as 
I stood on an eminence, from which I could see upwards of 
twenty mountain peaks, none of less altitude than 3000 feet, 
many then clad with patches of snow. I marvelled at the 
many changes which had passed since the days when Ranald 
MacKagh, “Son of the Mist,” and his son Kenneth trudged 
with brawny brown legs over perhaps the very ground now 
occupied by three peaceful “fly-catchers.” But I must return 
to what I was going to say. 
After a weary walk we reached the cottage; being received 
by a salute of barking collies, which to one of my friends, 
recently from London, was no source of pleasure. After re- 
freshing ourselves with Miss Campbell’s scones, oat-cake, and 
cream, we started work for the night: one contingent sugared 
high on the mountain-side, while the other two did the 
same on a mountain bog. Your readers will imagine the 
astonishment of all, as night drew near, to find the moths 
flying steadily in one direction, quite oblivious of the many 
patches of intoxicating sweets we had prepared. The next 
best thing to do was to find out what was the attraction. I 
need not ask my readers to guess what it was,—for who 
would think of sallow-blossoms at midsummer? But so 
they were; and an odd thing it seemed to find such a mixed 
company at the feast. Here isa list of them:—The genus 
Hadena seemed to replace our more familiar—at sallows— 
genus Tzniocampa, for in hundreds were Hadena adusta, 
H. glauca, H. dentina, H. pisi (in all sorts of variety), 
H. contigua, and H. rectilinea; H. dentina being in decided 
majority. In addition to these we took an occasional 
Acronycta myrice, with A. menyanthidis, Noctua plecta, 
Rusina tenebrosa, a few Ypsipetes ruberata, and one Notodonta 
dicteoides. Excepting the absence of a single decently rare 
moth, the above list is decidedly interesting, as being such 
an odd mixture of species captured on a single night at sallow- 
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