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AN ALBINo Hummrne-Brrp. — During the last summer a white Hum 
ming-bird visited many times a stand of plants on my piazza. I had 
eral eee of observing it closely. It seemed a trifle larger than 
the Ruby-throa The n neck and head were of a glossy gold-color. l 
large, black, no brilliant. After dipping its bill into all the tuschiag AE 
did what I have never seen other Humming-birds do, alighted on a dwar | 
apple-tree within a wh feet of me, and ate the apnhides, or plant-lice, 
just as the sparrows and golden-wrens do. After a hearty meal of — 
it ua its feathers, spread its wings one by one, and thrust out ata 
long tongue. — L. A. MILLINGTON. 

ENTOMOLOGICAL CALENDAR. 
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In April the injurious insects in the Northern States have scarcely 
gun their work of destruction, as the buds do not unfold before the f 
Fig.1. of May. We give an account, however, of some of the bel 
ficial insects which are now to be found in grass-lands 
mab The $ aner To know his true insect friends 
me mes insec troduce to our readers a large f 
of 0 ro ea from Carabus, the name 
with the principal forms. They are dark-colored, brown 
black, with metallic hues, and are seen in spring, and t through 
out the summer, running in grass, or lurking under stones and sticks 

damp places, whence they sally forth to hunt by night, when many 
table-eating i s are most active 
a larve are found in much in same situations as the mature t 
ey are elongate, oblong, and rather broad, the terminal ring of | 
