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THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



common garden snail {Helix aspersa), in a 

 chip box, put it away, and then forgot all 

 aboutjit. I chanced to come upon it the other 

 day, and seeing by the date it had been con- 

 fined for two years and a half, I felt sure it 

 must be dead and dried up long ago, but to 

 be quite certain, I immersed it in tepid water, 

 and within half -an -hour it begun to move, 

 apparently none the worse for its long fast — 

 James Dixon, Hartlepool, 8th Sept., 1883. 



HAGGERSTON 

 ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



There will be a pocket-box exhibition of 

 entomological specimens on Thursday, the 

 loth November, in the rooms of this Society 

 10 Brownlow Street, Dalston, which any of 

 our readers will be welcome either as visitors 

 or exhibitors. This is just the sort of exhibi- 

 tion calculated to encourage beginners. It 

 is very interesting to see what other people 

 are doing, but very much more pleasant to 

 exhibit our own treasures. A pocket-box 

 exhibition affords opportunity for those who 

 have but one or two specimens to show, or 

 even those who have more than this, but are 

 not advanced enough to exhib't large cases, 

 We shall be pleased to learn the exhibition 

 has been a successful one. It will commence 

 at half-past eight o'clock in the evening. 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



All communications to be sent to J. E. Robson, 15 

 Northgate, Hartlepool; or to S. L. Mosley Beau- 

 mont Park, Huddersfield. 



"We have to thank Mr. Geo. A. Harker, Liver- 

 pool, for Trogon lutorius, &c. 



B.W. — CocliliocopcL tridens and lubrica are 

 described in the papers on Conchology in 

 our first volume as Azeca tridens aud Zua 



subcylindriea. The aperture of Azeca, is 

 toothed, which some consider a sufl&cient 

 distinction to warrant it being made into a 

 separate genus. 

 T.S.M., Liverpool. — Your " files" are a species 

 of Ichneumon, we will endeavour to get 

 you the correct name. Are you quite sure 

 the egg you sent is the Spotted Flycatcher. 

 It is very like that of the Pied Flycatcher, 

 a rarer bird. Do you know both these 

 species ? 



Mr. F. Kerry of Harwich has most oblig- 

 ingly sent for figuring in " British Birds" a 

 nest of the Long-tailed Tit, a most beautiful 

 piece of bird architecture. We need not de- 

 scribe it here, as we shall presently have to 

 do so in our account of that species. 



He has also sent for the same purpose a 

 beautiful variety of Dunlin. It seems to be 

 a bird bred this year. The right wing has 

 three of the first quill feathers, the spurious 

 wing and one of the greater wings coverts 

 pure white, and the fifth quill feather nearly 

 so. Several of the upper tail coverts are 

 also partly or wholly white. The toes are 

 also very curiously mottled with pale colour. 

 Mr. Kerry has our sincere thanks. 



This notice should have appeared last 

 month, but was inadvertently omitted. 



CHANGE OF ADDRESS. 



John Ackery, from 36 De Crespigny Park, 

 Camberwell, S.E.,to Beaufort Lodge, Knatch- 

 bull Boad, Camberwell, S.E. 



EXCHANGE. 



I have Anomala Frisliii to spare. — John 

 E. BoBsoN, Hartlepool. 



I have a few specimens of A, anatina. for 

 exchange. Desiderata very numerous. — W. 

 Harcouet Bath, Sutton Park, Birming- 

 ham. 



