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Page 42. After reading these remarks, the late Canon H. Ellacombe 

 wrote to me : ' The keeper at the Helston Lizard Lighthouse 

 told me . . . that he had never had any of the lights broken 

 but once, and that was by a woodcock that went clean 

 through it. I was unable to ascertain whether the woodcock 

 survived the shock.' 



Page 60. Canon Ellacombe wrote to me thus : ' Do you know that 

 the spines of hollies are no protection if a vacant place can be 

 found ? A friend of mine near Barnet had a long extent of 

 holly hedges, and he found that if a cow could find an open- 

 ing it loved to scratch itself, and so made bad worse.' 



Page 208, line 11 from bottom. For 'about 100 sterling' read 

 '177, 13s. 4d. sterling.' 



Page 270. On the matter of the Yucca moth, Canon Ellacombe wrote 

 to me thus : ' It seems certain that there is some insect that 

 must fertilise the Yucca besides the Pronuba. It fruits in 

 S. Europe. This last spring I gathered a good handful of seeds 

 near Nice. There are certainly natural hybrids there, though 

 the hybrids produced near Naples are by artificial fertilisation. 

 The whole subject is fully gone into in Treleaze's good mono- 

 graph of the Yucca published last year.' 



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Page 8, line 9 from bottom. After the volume had been published I 

 happened to hear another synonym for ' evening.' In Devon- 

 shire they speak of it as ' the dimsey,' equivalent in meaning 

 and cognate in origin with the German Dammerung. 



Page 68, line 5. For 'mingle' read 'mingled.' 



Page 245. Leave out from 'breathing apparatus' in line 4 from 

 bottom to ' like ' in line 3. I am informed that the setce or 

 iridescent hairs, which I took to be external branchiw, have no 

 function in respiration, breathing being effected through the 

 skin. 



Page 258, line 2. After ' purposes ' insert, ' It is stated in Munro's 

 Bambusece that during the famine of 1864, fifty thousand 

 natives were busy collecting the seed of bamboo, which saved 

 them from starvation.' 



Page 280, line 12. For 'Fowler' read 'Flower.' A tiresome misprint 

 of an old and valued friend's name. 



