CONTENTS. V 



PAOR 



the Kite and Hobby The Heron Its abundance in the 

 eastern counties The King-fisher Its nest Newly-ac- 

 quired habits of some of our British birds The Moor-hen 

 ft nd Coot The Cuckoo Its relation to its young Common 

 songsters of our lanes The tits, various species of The 

 Ruff and Reeve Their pugnacity - Fieldfare and Lapwing 

 Eggs of latter Artistic character of certain birds' nests 

 How they are built Relation between songsters and help- 

 less young The philosophy of nest-building The Haw- 

 finch and Bullfinch The Siskin Woodpecker and Common 

 Creeper Nuthatch Jay Sedge- warbler, its song Reed- 

 warbler Adaptation of birds to physical conditions Evo- 

 lutions in the earth's history 103 14i 



CHAPTER V. 



THE BUTTK3FLIE8 AXD BIOTHS OP 'I HE GREEN LANES. 



Metamorphoses of butterflies and moths Butterfly's proboscis 

 Female butterflies and moths Structure of ditto Scales 

 on a butterfly's wing Different kinds of ditto Eggs of 

 butterflies and moths Descriptions of ditto Colours of 

 butterflies and moths -Their meanings and uses Mimicry 

 displayed by butterflies and moths Difference between 

 butterflies and moths-White Cabbage Butterfly- Smaller 

 White Green-veined White Brimstone Tortoise-shell- 

 Peacock The Blues Little Copper Habits of the larger 

 Tortoise-shells The Camberwell Beauty Do butterflies 

 know they are pretty? The Red Admiral The Paintea 

 Lady The Orange Tip Meadow Brown Large Heath- 

 Moths: Meadow Tiger Privet Hawk-moth Small Eggar 

 Moths, their habits and nests Goat-moth, its ravages to 

 trees Vapourer Moth Lackey Moth Ghost Swift Brim- 

 stone Moth White Ermine Wuter Ermine Buff Ermine 

 -Yellow-tail Fox Moth -Emperor Moth The Tineidae 



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 CHAPTER VI. 



THE BEETLES AND OTHER INSECTS OP THE GREEN LANES. 



Colours of beetles The Tiger Beetle Musk Beetle Sun 

 Beetle Wing cases of beetles, how formed Rose Beetle 



