NATURE NOTES 
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I append a list of Rhopalocera taken or observed : — 
Pieris rapes L. — Fairly abundant everywhere, normal in character. 
Colias edusa F. — Not common anywhere, normal. 
Conepteryx rhamni L., and Cleopatra L. — One or two of each only, 
on cultivated land near Pollensa. 
Pyrameis cardui L. — One only, at Sober, just emerged, but very 
small. 
Pararge AEgeria L. — Generally distributed, but more common 
at Sober and Pollensa than elsewhere. Ground colour deep 
orange; specimens undersized. 
Pararge Megcera L. — Generally distributed and typical. 
Epiniphele jurtina L., var. hispulla Hb. — Not common : the type 
does not appear. 
Epiniphele Ida Esp. — Common on waste ground outside Pollensa, 
and one small male at Sober. 
Chrysophanns phlaas L. — Not common, typical. 
Lyceena astrarche Berg. — At Miramar only, not common, typical. 
Lyccena iacrus Rott. — Abundant everywhere ; typical but dwarfed, 
and the females of the Continental form, not the entirely 
brown form of Corsica and the Mediterranean littoral 
generally. 
Cyaniris argiolus L. — At Sober one or two ; fairly common at 
Pollensa. 
We saw scarcely any Heterocera at all, and at the end of a 
long day in the hot sun one has not much energy left for “ moth- 
ing ” or sugaring posts, and the electric lamps appeared to have 
no attraction at all. A dead Deiliphila livornica was brought to 
us at Sober. 
Lindfield, Sussex, R. S. Standen, F.L.S., F.E.S. 
July 25, 1905. 
BIRDS IN THE FIELD AND GARDEN. 
T would be idle to deny that there are certain species 
amongst the birds that inhabit these islands which 
do an appreciable amount of harm to the farmer 
and the horticulturist. At the same time, if we 
would consider the matter from a common-sense jroint of view, 
and would wish to judge fairly ui^on a subject which is, it may 
be fairly said, of great importance, we must not allow ourselves 
to be carried away by the arguments of j)rejudiced persons 
on the one hand, and those of sentimentalists, jnire and simple, 
on the other. 
It is by no means necessary, and indeed it would be wholly 
unjust, to assume that, because some particular ornithological 
variety commits evident havoc among the croj)s that are the 
result of man’s labour, such a bird may at once be classed as 
a pest and worthy of no merciful consideration. Exj)erience 
