20 Natural Calendar of Coincidence. 
FEBRUARY. 
haffinch si Crocus vérnus fl. 
or ) ch sings - - — , S 
Beg. Chaffinch sings : Daphne Mezéreon fi. 
Marcu. 
Lambs born - - - Primula vulgaris fl. 
Beg. 9 Rooks begin to build - - Viola odorata fl. 
Papilio rhamni - - - 
urtice = = = 
ce chloros - - p Apricot fl. 
C. album - - - 
L io: - - - - 
End. . Frogs spawn - - - Caltha palustris fl. 
APRIL 
Cicindela campéstris ap. = - Blackthorn fl. 
Apis terr éstris ap. -  - - Salix caprea fl. 
Beg. < Vespa communis ap. * - - Hawthorn leafs. 
s retusa . ‘ 
aig tet - - Anemone nemorosa fl. 
Bombylius major 
Melitta falva ap. - - Gooseberry and currant tree fl. 
Stellaria Holdstea fl. 
Blackcap sings Pri Nii 
| rimula veris fl. 
| Redstart sings a ‘ 
ae = . < Viola canina fl. 
| Nightingale sings | eet : 
Mid. < Seallows-ap. | Fieldfares, redwings, and wood- 
n ae mae | cocks depart. 
Papilio Argiolus ap. - -) 
s { 
rape ap. - : ~ L Prdact : : 
os rassi : i ; 
| nai ap. . a ca Rapa (turnip) fl 
E — brassice ap. ~ . 
Cuckoo sings : ~~ & Cardamine praténsis fl 
Papilio cardamines ap. - =f PAEARURS PIBtEDSIS st 
* Wasps seem to delight in frequenting hawthorn hedges in the spring, as 
soon as the early foliage comes out. What is it that attracts them to these 
haunts ? Perhaps they come in search of the larvae of other insects which 
feed on the hawthorn. That wasps, whose ordinary food seems to be fruit, 
are yet occasionally insectivorous, there can be no doubt, as even in sum- 
mer and autumn they may often be seen to attack and devour the flies in 
the windows. When they make their first appearance in spring, there is no 
fruit to serve them for food; probably, therefore, they may at that season 
feed principally on insects, and for this purpose may resort to hawthorn 
hedges, which abound with the larvae of various lepidopterous insects. 
+ Swallows and other summer birds come to us, as it were, in the room 
of our winter visitants, the woodcocks, fieldfares, and redwings. When the 
former come, the latter depart, and vice versa. I remember an old sports- 
man who used to say that “the same wind which brought the swallows 
took the woodcocks away ;”” and I have heard an intelligent countryman 
remark, alluding to the fieldfares and redwings in the spring, that “ there 
would be no warm weather till those birds had done chattering.” 
{ The song of the cuckoo and the flight of Papilio cardamines (or orange- 
tip butterfly ), it has often struck me, appear to be as nearly as possible con- 
temporancous. At the end of April the bird is occasionally heard, and the 
