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Dinant, Belgium.
1897
July 17.
(No. 2).
  The smaller birds have either chattering or Zi-ing calls.
Grasshoppers fairly numerous in the grain fields to-day and
crickets chirping in the village gardens this evening. House
flies are scarce throughout France and Belgium and mosquitoes
practically absent. I have seen no toads, lizards or snakes.
The only butterfly at all common is the Cabbage Butterfly.
Besides this I have seen literally only two species (a large
and a small brown one) and but one individual of each. Not a
single Dragonfly as yet. Insects that prey on vegetation must
be very scarce, for the foliage of the trees and shrubs is everywhere perfect.