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I have also one bird to add to the list published at page 

 290 of your last volume, as well as an omission to correct. 

 A specimen of Muscicapa luctuosa, (the pied fly-catcher,) 

 was killed in this town last May. The omission to which 

 I allude, is that of the common kingfisher, Alcedo ispida. 



In a little wood near Sudbury, I this summer met with 

 several specimens of Laphria nigra and Thecla W. album. I 

 also took there Cleptes semiaurata and nitidula, Sec. Sudbury 

 is, perhaps, one of the best localities in England for land and 

 fresh water shells ; but is not, from the deficiency of wood, 

 very favourable to the Entomologist. However, some rare 

 Lepidoptera occur, as Agrotis wqua, Orthosia lota, Sec. Last 

 July, Leucania pollens, common, to be sure, everywhere, 

 swarmed in countless myriads over the meadows. A large 

 lime tree in the garden of Mr. W. P. King, when in flower, 

 offered a most interesting spectacle. Millions, I might say, 

 of Noctuites visited it every evening. They were chiefly Leu- 

 cania pollens, Polio dysodea, Agrotis exclamationis, Segetum, 

 Hortorum, &c, intermixed with Mamestra brassicw, Oleracea, 

 Persicariw, and other Noctuites in smaller numbers. 



Colchester and its vicinity appears to me to be one of the 

 most favourable spots in our country for the Entomologist, 

 and at the same time one of the most beautiful. I hope to be 

 able to enter more into its Entomology soon, as I trust it will 

 another year be fully investigated by one quite competent to 

 the task, and residing on the spot. Of our Lepidoptera I have 

 no doubt that a very large proportion are to be found there. 

 The sandy soil is peculiarly favourable to Hymenoptera and 

 Coleoptera. 



I find amongst my papers a note of the following extract, 

 from Oviedo, touching scorpions, which I may be allowed to 

 append here. I have a lot of notes of other little scraps of 

 natural history, to be extracted from some of the Spanish his- 

 torians of America, but have not time now to search them out 

 and arrange them. They relate, at least many of them, to the 

 bees of tropical America, but I wish first to study Latreille's 

 paper in Humboldt's Zoologie, &c. ; which, at this moment, I 

 have not by me. Some of these bees are said to produce sour 

 honey, others are — 



