THE YOUNG 



They -ire tin property of the Rev. G. 1». 

 Armitage, and were sent to my father for 

 re- stuffing as "young Hooded Crows, bred in 

 a rookery." They are about three parts 

 grown, and are black with the extremity of 

 each feather barred with grey, which gives 

 them a mottled appearance. The ends of 

 the w ins and tail feathers are also barred. 

 Mr. John Hancock figures a similar variety 

 in his " Birds of Northumberland and 

 Durham," and calls attention to the fact 

 that this mottled appearance is a charac- 

 teristic of the young of a great many of tht- 

 Passerine birds. Another instance of a 

 similar variety is mentioned by Yarrell, and 

 another bv Deglaud and Gerne in their 

 " Ornithologie Europeenne." In all these 

 cases the birds were voting birds and the 

 mottled appearance would probably have 

 disappeared if the birds had lived to moult. 

 The one mentioned by Yarrell changed on 

 moulting to an ordinary Rook. — S. L. Most.;, v. 



The Nightingale at Birmingham. — 

 On Maj oih. when myself and Mr. P. T. 

 Peakin were out mothing, we came across a 

 crowd of about 50 people in the Hall Hill 

 Road (two miles from town). On asking 

 what they were waiting for we were informed 

 that a Nightingale had been singing i n the 

 wood a few minutes before, after waiting till 

 10 o'clock we were rewarded by hearing him 

 begin, and when we came away, after listen- 

 ing for over three-quarters of an hour, he 

 was still singing. The next night we went 

 again, when there were about 300 people 

 assembled, he commenced at 9-35, and when 

 we came away was still singing, and did not 

 seem as though he would stop for some time. 

 Two or three heavy carts that went b\ did 

 not disturb him in the least, although he 

 could not have been above a dozen yards 

 from the highway. There was one in the 

 same place about twenty years ago, and then 

 crowds used to go nightly to hear him, but I 

 have not heard of one being anywhere near 

 there since. — Geo. F. Whekldon, 6, New hall 

 Street, Birmingham. 



ATOKA LIST. 2&] 



EXCHANGE. 



1 »r pi.ica i :es. -Fair imagines of Nyssia 

 zonat'ia and ova of the same. Desiderata. — 

 I Numerous. — George Harker, 28, Brooke 

 ; Road, Waterloo, Liverpool. 



I shall be glad to exchange Euchelia jacobcea 

 for Butterflies or Bombyces. — R. A. Phaser, 

 Seafield, Abbotsford Road, Crosby, near 

 Liverpool. 



Larva of P. fiavocineta (a few) and full-fed 

 larvae and pupae of E. ccrvinaria, in exchange 

 for other larva: or ova. — H ; F. Natxsski.m, 

 o. Radnor Place. Plymouth. 



Wanted a pair of Harvest Mice ; Eggs or 

 Insects in exchange. — S. I.. Mosi.ky, Beau 

 mon I Park, Huddersfield-. 



A n«->t of White Bluebells (wild) to anyone 

 who will pay postage.- S. L, Moseey. 



BRITISH BUTTERFLIES. 



By .! 1.. ffoBSON ; with Figures from Life by 

 S. L. Mosia.v. 

 Assisted by Contributors to tlv- Y. N.) 



TITHONUS, L. — PI. , Fig. . 



" Trt'H; )N i.'s, L., Tttko'mts, the husband of 

 Aurora. Of. Virg., Geor. I., 44 . "--A. B. 



Imago. -PI. 16, Fig. 1. — Bright fulvous, 

 with a dark-brown border, a black spot with 

 two white dots near the tip : there is also 

 generally a smaller black spot with a white 

 centre at the anal angle of the hind wing. 

 The male has a patch of the same colour a* 

 the border, extending from the inner margin 



I to beyond the middle of the fore wing. The 

 female is rather larger, paler fulvous, and is 

 without this dark patch. 



Larva. -Pl.i6 j fig. 1a. Bright green or pale 



! stone colour, with a darker dorsal line, a white 

 sub-dorsal line, interrupted at each segment. 

 Spiracular line white, bordered above with 



j brown, shading off into the ground colour; 



