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centres of population like these, New- 

 castle-on-Tyne, Liverpool, and Leeds, 

 find it worth their while to pay atten- 

 tion to Natural History, doubtless 

 others would do the sanae. Even 

 Ireland with all its troubles can find 

 some little matters of interest outside 

 of local politics and Land Leagues. A 

 cutting was sent us from the Cork Con- 

 stitution, of April 3rd, giving an 

 account of a meeting for the purpose 

 of forming a society to be called " The 

 I County Cork Bee-keepers Association/' 

 I Our correspondent, who sends us the 

 I cutting, evidently thinks this an earnest 

 1 of better things, and we hope it may be. 

 I Is it not worth our readers while, to 

 I try their own local papers with similar 

 I items. Some of them are sure to be 

 I inserted, and by this means the atten- 

 ' of many a one would be called to the 

 study who might become interested. 

 It may also be the means of isolated 

 iiaturaHsts discovering that there are 

 others working away beside them, of 

 whose existence they were unaware, 

 and we are all glad of a little company 

 at times. 



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EXCHANGE. 



Ova of N. Zonaria and T. opima. Desi- 

 derata — Ova of many Lepidoptera. — J. W. , 

 Ellis, ioi, Everton Road, Liverpool. 



Duplicates — Hymenoptera, Nomada sig- 

 7iata, Andrena fulva and A7ithro2)hara acer- 

 voi'v.m, Hemiptera, Selairus higuttatus and 

 Anueris Icevis, and numerous Coleoptera. 

 Desiderata — British Coleoptera. — W. H. 

 Bennett, ii, George Street, Hastings. 



Duplicates — Larvas of L. Didymata, 

 Desiderata — Numerous, larvae preferred 

 to imagines. — (Miss) R. Prescott Decie, 

 Bockleton Court, Tenbury. 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS 



Birmingham Notes. — April loth. Saw 

 at Stratford-on-Avon and outskirts, the 

 following: — A pair of Greenfinches build- 

 ing in a hedge ; Starlings also building 

 round the church. I also observed several 

 young rooks, in full plumage, on the tops 

 of the highest trees. The Corncrake {Crex 

 jn-atensis) has made its appearance, I heard 

 one in Loxley Lane ; this is very early. 

 Saw Vanessa Urticce flying along the hedge- 

 row in great abundance. Hawthorn [CratcB- 

 gus oxycantha) in full blossom. I noticed 

 it had a very unusual look about it, being 

 in full blossom and quite leafless. (Was it 

 not Blackthorn, which always flowers before 

 the leaves appear ? — Eds.) Saw at Hatton 

 a pair of Sand-martins. — Alexander G. 

 Davis, 6i, Suffolk Street, Birmingham. 



Note on the Water Hen. — On the gth 

 inst, whilst walking by the side of a pond, I 

 disturbed a Water Hen from the side into 

 the water, which being quite clear, I could 

 sec its mode of swimming under water quite 

 plain. It did not swim with its feet, which 

 were carried out behind, but it rowed itself 

 along with its wings. 



Lnsects Captured at Harwich. — At 

 Sallow bloom I have taken the lollowing 

 'i\ciuocam])a, oincc 1 wrote you on the lOth 



