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FLOWERS AND INSECTS. 
slowly stalked the grass-green mantis. The huni- 
ming-hird hawk-moth hovered around the spikes 
of the sedum, and flitting about were painted lady 
and clouded yellow butterflies. 
As we were strolling on, we came to the edge of 
an abrupt, broken, yellow-fronted clifl*, whence 
issued the harsh, grating song of the tree-cricket, 
and where, flying backwards and forwards, were 
many blue rock-pigeons. We descended the cbiF, 
and before us perceived a blue bay with blue hills 
in the distance. Around us were brown, flat-topped 
and angular rocks, bristling with black patches of 
juvenile mussels, and rough with white patches of 
juvenile barnacles. The ubiquitous Lampanise, a 
kind of sea-screw, were crawling in the little j^ools, 
in which also the lively, big-headed gobies and the 
sly, artful blenny were disporting themselves. Here 
also, Ave obserA^cd running about, in a busy, cheerful, 
bustling manner, the beautiful golden j)lover, the 
red-billed oystercatcher, the greenshank, and the 
sandcrling. 
When AA^e got doAAUi to the “ lean-ribbed ” sand, a 
