1891. 
June 27 
(No 8)
England.
Chester. - Thus far I have not seen or heard a toad
or frog although I have looked sharply for both.
Stranger still I have not seen a single butterfly!
Newstead says all three animals are scarce, in
this locality at least. Small white or grayish matter
are numerous enough. The pine woods to-day
were swarming with a species the larvae of which
feed on the pine needles. I have also seen one
dragonfly, a blue-bodied Agr[?], and one
humble bee the latter a sturdy-built, heavily-
furred, rusty-brown species a little smaller than
ours.
  England is popularly reported to have no mosquitos.
This is a mistake. We saw three in the [?]
yesterday and one in the pine swamp to-day.
They were of two very different kinds, one kind
very nearly like ours, the other fully four times
as large and built after the typical British
fashion with stout body and short legs. The 
latter was light brown in color and I think
furred. I saw both kinds in the act of biting
my companion. There is also a wood fly
something like our deer-fly which is said to
bite savagely. We saw one yesterday.
  The total number of species seen & heard to-day
was thirty.  These included 3 Thrushes, 1 Redstart,
1 Robin 5 Warblers, 1 Kinglet, 2 Tits, 1 Wren, 2 Wagtails,
1 Pipit, 3 Swallows, 2 Finches, 1 Bunting, 1 Starling,
3 Corvidae (Jay Magpie & Rook), 1 Lark, 1 Swift and
1 Gull.
  We returned to Chester by the 6.10 train.