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<€ORRESPONDENCE. 
To the Editor of the Naturalist.' '' • 
My Dear Sir, — ^In reply to Dr. Liverpool, the Corn Bunting is most cer¬ 
tainly very abundant in this and the adjoining county (Suffolk), evidently 
preferring the more open fields to places where the enclosures are small and the 
hedges tall. In this district it is as numerous as the Yellow Bunting; and 
several may be seen in a walk of a few miles round the town, perched upon the 
top-most twigs of the fences adjoining the road. The nest is usually placed 
among Corn, Clover, or Trefoil, and it is only when the two latter are cut that 
we find it. The Bunting is certainly very late in its nidification. I have not 
yet seen a single nest this season. 
I remain, my dear Sir, 
Yours very truly, 
Thetford^ Norfolk^ J* D. Salmon. 
June 14, 1837. 
[We shall be glad to receive further communications on this subject.-—En. 
Some Account of a Wasp's Nest taken near Campsall Hall. 
To the Editor of the Naturalist. 
My Dear Sir,— -During the past week my attention was directed to the 
existence of a Wasp’s nest in a very peculiar situation. It had been discovered 
by a labourer, and from the situation of the nest, and the appearance of the 
insects, it was supposed to be a different species from the Common Wasp (Vespa 
'Dulgaris). The nest was attached to the branch of a dead bough, near the lake at 
Campsall Hall. It was nearly of a spherical shapej^and measured about 12 inches 
in circumference. It was appended to the bough by its base ; there was an orifice 
in it, at the most dependent part, about an inch in diameter, and it was 4tuata-, 
three or four inches from the ground. The external portion^of the®'nest^co|is^^^^^ 
of four or five layers of fibrous matter, agglutinated with some wax-like ^suBsfaS!^ 
The fibres were not so coarse as those of the covering of the nest mf the 
Common Wasp. Internally the combs consisted of three circular tiers, arranged 
horizontally | the lower-most of these was the smallest. Each tier was attached 
to the one above it by a single pedicle extending from its centre. The hexagonal 
cells of the combs diminished in size towards the circumference of each tier. 
The cells, in number 500 or 600, were filled with young in different stages of 
growth. Those most external were in the larva state, and the cells were open 
below. The centre cells were closed over with a paper-like substance, and each 
contained a Wasp in its pupa state. The external appearance of these cells 
resembled a petrified bunch of grapes. 
The nest was taken by introducing under the orifice a squib of moistened gun- 
