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THE CANADIAN NATURALIST. 
BARRED OWL. 
(Strioc Nehulosa.) 
C, — What light is that before us ? 
F. — It is the Firefly C Lamp?/ris Corusca ) ; which illu- 
minates our summer nights with its radiance. When I 
came up the country from the St. Lawrence^ travelling late 
one evening, I first saw these pretty insects. The lights you 
see^ is of a yellow colour, like that of flame, and very differ- 
ent from the blue gleam of our English glowworm : from this 
circumstance, I at first took them for candles in the woods, 
and though told what they were, at every one that appeared, 
the same idea would come across my mind, that it was 
some one in the woods, carrying a candle, until I became 
