IN TUNE WITH ITS SURROUNDINGS 91 



when the wings are set a degree in advance 

 of neutral. 



The marvellous precision a.nd fitness of these 

 actions can only be attributed to Omniscience 

 manifesting in the creature, which, indeed, is 

 no meaningless expression ; for however faulty 

 and inadequate my description, the fact re- 

 mains, the hover-fly is in perfect tune with 

 its surroundings which shows it to be no mere 

 waif struggling with the elements, but as much 

 a part of nature as the sun in the sky. 



