The Zoologist— October, 1868. 1413 



Another bird of this species was seen the same evening flying along 

 the foreshore. 



Variety of the Lark. — August 22. Saw a very beautiful variety of 

 the lark in the marsh this afternoon ; it was all over a rich buff or 

 isabelhne colour. The note and manner in no way different from its 

 companions : it was, however, much tamer, permitting a rather close 

 inspection. 



Swift. — August 22. Last noted in Lincolnshire ; six seen together. 

 August 28. Last noted in Cheshire ; one seen. 



Bartailed Godwit. — August 22. Three seen on the " flats ; " had a 

 long look at them through the telescope. One was in full summer 

 dress, the other showed slight traces on the flanks and back of a 

 change to the winter plumage. These birds were constantly thrusting 

 their long bills into the ooze: I never saw such energetic feeders; it 

 seems with them the one object of life; but they are not so absorbed 

 in eating as to neglect their safety, for on the slightest sign of danger 

 they rise, and, sounding a shrill wild alarm-note, are off to a more 

 distant part of the flats. 



Summer Warblers. — August 22. Many of our smaller summer 

 visitors are now moving southward : this is evident from the number 

 I now see in our isolated marsh hedge-rows and bushes — situations 

 where they are not seen during the spring and summer. These marsh 

 "hedge-shelters" now swarm with little wanderers, principally white- 

 throats, lesser whitethroats, willow wrens, sedge warblers and an odd 

 redstart or two. I never knew the latter bird breed in this parish: 

 I once saw one in an osier-bed near the stream as late as the 8th of 

 October. 



John Cordeaux. 



Great Cotes, Ulueby, Lincolnshire, 

 September 8, 1868. 



Life- Histories of Sawflies. Translated from the Dutch of M. S. C. 

 Snellen van Vollenhoven, by J. W. May, Esq. 



(Continued from Zool. S. S. 642). 



Nematus varus, De Vill. 

 Larva and imago, De Geer, Memoires (German translation), vol. ii. 2, 

 p. 264. JRatzeburg, Die Foist insecleit, Hi. p. 119, note. 



Nematus niger, ore pallido, femoribus et abdominis cingulo rufo, 

 tarsorum posticorum articulo primo dilatato. 



