1ST 



PREFACE 



ONE who proposes to add another 

 volume to the large library of works 

 on Nature Study, is expected to 

 tender an apology for his proposal. I, there- 

 fore, offer the following list of special features 

 of my little book in the hope that these will 

 be accepted as justifying its publication : 



1. It treats of those objects which first 

 attract the notice of a rambler trees, wild 

 flowers, birds' eggs, beetles, grasshoppers, 

 dragonflies, two-winged flies, sawflies, bees, 

 butterflies, and moths. 



2. Examples of each group have been 

 specially and carefully selected, which are 

 to be found in most parts of Britain, and may 

 be used as types of large numbers of similar 

 objects. 



3. Each example is described as briefly as 

 possible, only those points being specified 

 which are likely to aid a beginner. 



