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'Natural Calendar of Coincidence, 



February. 



Beg. Chaffinch sings 



Lambs born 



Rooks begin to build 



' Papilio rhamni 



— 2<rticae 



— Polychloros 



— C. album 



— To. 



_ ( Crocus vernus fl. 



" \ Z)aphne il^ezereon fl* 



March. 



Mid.^ 



End. Frogs spawn 



' Clcindela campestris ap. 

 ^'pis terrestris ap. 

 Tespa communis ap.* 

 J'pis retusa ^ 



_^^ombylius major \ 



Melitta fulva ap. 



Primula vulgaris fl. 

 Fiola odorata fl. 



Apricot fl. 



Caltha palustris fl. 



April. 



Blackcap sings 

 Redstart sings 

 Nightingale sings 

 Mid. -<{ Swallows ap. f 



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Papilio Argiolus ap. 

 ■ /apse ap. 



wapi ap. 



6rassicae ap. 



Fnd 5 ^^^^^ sings t 



' \ Papilio cardamines ap. 



- Blackthorn fl. 



- iSalix caprea fl. 



- Hawthorn leafs. 



- Anemone nemorosa fl. 



- Gooseberry and currant tree fl. 



f Stellaria ^olostea fl. 

 I Primula veris fl. 

 -<l riola eanina fl. 



Fieldfares, redwings, and wood- 

 (, cocks depart. 



_ j^J5rassica J?apa (turnip) fl. 

 '_ > Cardamine pratensis fl. 



* 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. 



t 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- 

 temporaneous. At the end of April the bird is occasionally heard, and the 



