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is, however, another species on the Continent which comes very near 

 to linea, and may only be a variety of it ; it differs from linea in 

 having the underside of the hind wings of one colour, and not having 

 a fulvous inner margin as in our insect. It is called lineola^ Och. 



This concludes my list of the butterflies. Many other interesting 

 varieties occur with which I am not acquainted, and also in moths 

 many remarkable forms and varieties might be found, and I hope 

 that before long these will be worked out and catalogued in a proper 

 form. This is a little bit of unworked ground for the British 

 entomologist to enter into. 



Primrose Hill, 

 Huddersfield. 



Perching or the Pedsha]st£ {Totanus calidris). — In last month's 

 Naturalist (vol. iv., p. 184) Mr. Bunker asks if it is usual for the red- 

 shank to perch on a tree. In reply I beg to state that it is no uncommon 

 sight on the Continent to see this and others of the class Grallatores 

 perched on trees. It is, perhaps, the absence of trees in their usual 

 haunts in this country that accounts for the non-observance of this 

 habit. Speaking of the curlew in Norway, Mr. Hewitson, in his " Eggs 

 of British Birds," 3 ed., vol. ii., p. 323, says : — We afterwards found 

 it, however, to be a practice by no means uncommon with the redshank 

 and the greenshank to settle upon trees ; and what surprised me more 

 was to see the long-legged curlew alight, as it frequently did, on the top 

 of the highest trees of the pine forest, and to hear it as it passed from 

 tree to tree utter its loud clear whistle." This habit is quite charac- 

 teristic of the closely allied species^ the spotted redshank, and has also 

 often been recorded of the common sandpiper. — Wm. Eagle Clauke, 

 Leeds, July 3rd, 1879. 



Buzzard v. Kite, at Bingley. — In the Naturalist for February, 

 1878, Mr. Butterfield records the occurrence of the kite at Bingley, 

 identifying the. species on grounds that I consider to be extremely doubt- 

 ful, even on Mr. B.'s own showing, for he says " I must confess, however, 

 its light-coloured (in fact it seemed almost white) head somewhat puzzled 

 me." Now, as he was so near that he could see the colour of the head, 

 it is a pity that he did not pay a little attention to its tail, for by this 

 alone the kite may be identified at once beyond the possibility of a doubt 

 the tail 'in this species being very long and deeply forked, and very 

 conspicuous. The buzzard is subject to great variety — light-coloured. 



