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wants no return. Their money value 

 is not in his mind. Ii was a pleasure 

 to him to take them, to have the pleasure 

 of giving them to you. Not that he 

 will treat every one so — now-a-days, 

 for as we have said he has been sadly 

 annoyed many a time at the manner his 

 generosity has been imposed upon. 

 When he took one species that had only 

 occurred singly before, he gave to every 

 applicant, only to find that some of 

 his specimens had been sold at high 

 prices by those to whom he had given 

 them. He is not without his faulis 

 perhaps, but his good qualities are those 

 we desire to see you imitatn. He 

 always acts on the motto we wish to 

 see you act upon, " Freely ye have 

 received, freely give." 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



All conuQunications to l>o M.-nl to J. £. Robson, 15 

 Nortligato, lIjirtlci)ool ; or to S. L. MoBLKT UoftD* 

 mont Park, Uaddcnficid. 



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Several correspondents are again thanked 

 for lists of Hawk Moths occurring in their 

 districts. We shall still be glad of others. 

 Will Mr. George Harker kindly say 

 whether he finds Fuciformis freely at 

 Crosby, and in what stage. This species 

 is not in the other lists we have from that 

 district. 



"AT HOME." 



Li\'BRP00L.— C. S. Gregson will be at home 

 ever>' Sunday until March next. Micro- 

 lepidopterists, coleopterists, and artists 

 should come early to secure good light ; 

 general naturalists any time from nine 

 a.m. to nine p.m. — Rose Bank. Fletcher 

 Grove Edge Lane, Liverpool. 



HuDDERSFiELD.— S. L. Moslcy cvcry Sat- 

 urday afternoon. 



ASSISTANT NATURALISTS. 



J. P. SouTTER. Clyde Terrace, Bishop 

 Auckland. AH branches of Botany ex- 

 cept microscopic. 



John .\. Tate. 6i, Merlin Street. Liverpool. 

 Inhabitants of the .\quarium, Terrariuni, 

 and Vivarium. 



(We shall be glad of additions to these lists ) 



NOTES, CAPTURES, &c. 



SkVL.\Kn L.WI.N'^ l.N CuNTl.NE.ME.NT.— I 



brought up a skylark from the nest two 

 years ago. Last year it laid three eggs and 

 this year it has laid twelve. Some of these 

 are very curious, being entirely without 

 spots. — George Marker, Liverpool. 



Rare Biros at Hartlepool.— On i6th 

 October last I shot a specimen of the Wood- 

 chat Shrike near the workhouse here. It 

 was named for me by Mr. Mackey, bird 

 stufTer. On the 27th December I shot a 

 specimen of the Cirl Bunting on the North 

 Sands, behind the cemetery. — J. J. Cam- 

 bridge, Alliance Street, Hartlepool. 

 If the Woodchat Shrike be rightly named it 

 is an interesting record, as it has not 

 previously occurred in the county of 

 Durham. In Hancock's Birds of North- 

 umberland and Durham a specimen is 

 mentioned as having been shot near 

 Bamborough, Northumberland, on 29th 

 April, 1859, the only recorded occurrence 

 of the species in the two north-eastern 

 counties.— Eds. Y.N. 



