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We will put some treacle and rum on these trees in order to attract the 

 moths later on in the evening. 



Look at that pretty brown and white bird sitting on the top of that hedge ! 

 He is facing us, and we easily perceive all his under parts from his beak to 

 his tail, are pure white, and there is also a white patch on his forehead just 

 above his beak. Now he has turned himself slightly, and we see the crown of 

 his head and back are black, and his wings and tail are dark brown, not, 

 however, uniform in tint, for the former have a white patch in the middle, 

 and the medial portion of the outside feathers of the tail are likewise white. 

 This bird is another of the flycatchers, and is known as the pied flycatcher • 

 (Musicapa atracapilla.) Like the spotted flycatcher it is a summer migrant, 

 and comes and goes about the same time as that species. It is partial to 

 human society, and builds in gardens and orchards. A hollow apple tree is 

 a favourite place for its nest, which it fabricates of grass, hair, and feathers. 

 The eggs are four or five and white. 



But now the shades of eve are falling and the moths begin to come out. 

 First, we notice some little yellow moths flying about the wild roses • these 

 are known to entomologists as Didyopteryx Bergmanniana, and they are very 

 common in every garden. This little brown moth with one half the wing 

 brownish orange, which I have just captured as it flew along by the side of 

 the hawthorn hedge, is another member of the Tortricina, to which group 

 Bergmanniana belongs, and is known as Pyrodes rhediana. Here is another 

 moth also on the wild roses, but rather different to Bergmanniana. It is 

 dark orange in colour, suffused with lead colour towards the hind margin and 

 has a triangular white spot on the costal margin just beyond the middle. 

 Another one of the genus may be found also at the end of June or beginning 

 of July. Its larvae feeds in June, inside folded maple leaves ; it is known as 

 Didyopteryx forskaleana. Many more of these little tortrices are out now, 

 as the common and variable Pcedisca corticana, the uncommon but widely 

 distributed Olindia ulmana, Eupcecilia maculosana, and the thistle-hunting 

 lemon-coloured Xanthosetia hamana, which last may be looked for throughout 

 the summer. 



Here is a pretty little bronzy green moth with wings very different in 

 shape to a tortrix, and we see at once it must belong to a different group* 

 The wings are narrow and rounded at the ends instead of being truncated. 

 It is evidently one of the Tineina and we recognize it as Butalis fusco-oenea. 

 Many others are out now, as the local B, chenopodiella, B. variella, Atemelia 

 torquatella, Pancalia LeuwenhoeheUa, and Glyphijoteryz cladiella, which 

 last we look for in Wicken fen. 



Now we see a moth darting about just above the tops of the long grass, 



