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AN ILLUSTRATE® 

 Penny Weekly Magazine of Natural History. 



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J. E. ROBSON and 8. L. MOSLEY. 



No. 98. 



SEPTEMBER 24th, 1881 



Vol. 2. 



Part XXII. — October, contains :— Field Clubs, 305. Notes, Captures, &c, 307, 

 322. Contributions towards the Fauna of Plymouth, 308. British Birds, their Nests and 

 Eggs, 309. British Butterflies, 310, 315. The Weather, 313. To Correspondents, 315, 222. 

 The Harebell, 317. Cases for Stuffed Birds, 321. Exchange, 322. Flamboro Head, 323. 

 Natural History Diary, 324. A Day in Baldersdale, 325. 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



Ail communications to be sent to J. E. Eobson, Bellerby 

 Terrace, West Hartlepool ; or to S. L. Mosley Beau- 

 mont Park, Huddersfield. 



Mr. Mosley has been from home for some 

 weeks in consequence of the serious illness 

 of his father, and the plates that should 

 have been issued this week are not ready, 

 but will be sent with the next number. He 

 trusts the delay will be excused under the 

 circumstances, and that his correspondents 

 will pardon him not replying to their com- 

 munications so promptly as he could wish. 



EXCHANGE. 



Wanted, a good adult King-fisher in the 

 flesh. — S. L. Mosley, Beaumont Park, 

 Huddersfield. 



Will exchange British birds' eggs and 

 butterflies for foreign ones and skins. — John 

 Eggleston, Park Place, West Sunderland. 



Duplicates : Larvae of P. bucephala, and 

 larvae or pupae of V. c-album. Desiderata : 

 numerous, larvae preferred to imagines. — 

 (Miss) R. Prescott Decie, Bockleton 

 Court, Tenbury. 



Larvae of H. pisi, Oleracea, and A. psi, 

 imagines of P. chi. Desiderata very num- 

 erous. — F. G. Scott, 4, Queen-street, New- 

 castle-on-Tyne. 



NOTES, CAPTURES, &e. 



The Sclavonian Grebe in Durham. — 

 I have got a female Sclavonian Grebe that 

 was got here on the 25th August. I think 



