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BARRETT’S BRITISH LEPIDOPTERA. 
The | Lepidoptera | of the | British Islands | A descriptive, account of 
Families, Genera, and | Species et to bee. Britain and | Ir 
s 
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ne” | Vol. III. | Heterocera, | Bombyces, 
ai: Oe Ce “ad eae Ses | 1896 | [Svo, cloth, 396 pages}. 
WE are pleased to seeltoarie a hae instalment of Mr. Barretts 
excellent account of the British Lepidoptera, and can only ae 
and emphasise the commendations which we h 
on the first and second volumes. In this third 
treated of are the Bombycide, Endromide, Saturnide, Drepa 
and Wotedontide, of the Bombyces, which occupy about half be 
volume, the other half being devoted to the families Cymatophoride 
and Zrifide, of the Noctuz, the great genus Agrotis occupying 2 
ee ane of the space. 
e are sorry to see that the author has not emancipated himsell 
from the ake of using capital letters for the initials of certai 
specific names, and that he still employs the redundant 
between the specific name and that of its author. e 
The appearance of succeeding volumes will be eagerly looked 
by lepidopterists, whose debt of gratitude to Messrs. Lovell 
& Co. is enhanced with each successive volume of the series. 
NOTES—ORNITHOLOG y 
The Long-eared or Horned Owl in Lincoln N.—When ee 
and I were fond tig Laan this bird (Asie a otis L e pre it "fom oe 
See When hen. mature Be 
One, named ‘ Dick,’ was never in his life confined ina Rigth 
ai plantation about I rds fr my athe’ s house (at ovilt : 
near Alford), from which a particular whistle would always fe a 
well that a mouse or bird was ready for sed to take : 
my The mouse held by the tail or the bird by a leg 
was snatched by ‘ Dick’ with his talo ast under my 
almost on his k at the instant og or cat on the fa 
nd encounter with him ; indeed he once attacked a small boy 
who had offered sor Seatiesity which ‘ Dick’ resented, and 
somewhat severely, just mi i er relative ' 
ti ed himself one fia by appropriating a $s Il dressed a 
i ie Pog ah near him, and bol it, so far at least as the Ieets 
of d ae down his Se ious age and 
d i fab too narro 
as. Pabrec Mason, The Lawn, Lincoln, a May, 1897- 
la ee 
were late this year, however, probably owing to the cont 
not hear the Blackcap Warbler (Sylvia atricapila at | 
opposed to April 28th of last year; and the first Grey "Flys 
grtsola) I did not see until May 1 14th, as pommian ee o May 
was the 17th before the pair cameo. that nested on 
ARMITT, 18th May, 1897. 
