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THE NATURALISTS’ JOURNAL. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
(The Editor is not responsible for the opinions expressed by Correspondents) . 
ARGYNNIS EUPHROSYNE. 
I see in the Correspondence column for July, that A. euphrosyne 
was taken near Lincoln, on April '26th. On the 25th, I was 
passing through West Blean Woods, between Herne Bay and 
Swalecliff, and saw several fritillaries, but not having my net 
with me I made no captures. The following day I went up to 
the woods to get some specimens and saw several of which I 
* caught eight, all in very good condition, and on examining them 
found them to be A. eupErosyne. I see that euphrosyne was taken 
April 14th, in Devonshire. 
Herne Bay , Kent. Arthur E. Malaker. 
[I met with A. euphrosyne on Epsom Common, as early as 
April 23rd this season, but no doubt the 26th is a very early date 
for a northerly locality like Lincoln.— h.k.s.] 
THE COLOURING OF BIRD’S EGGS. 
I noticed a few remarks on the above subject in the April No. 
of the N.J., and I think some of my experiences may be of inter¬ 
est to your readers. I have taken a tree sparrows nest with as 
many as nine eggs in, all dark, in an hole in a apple tree in Mr. 
Pignell’s orchard near Cheltenham, and several nests with seven, 
some all light, and some dark, and others mixed. Last year 
there was a robin’s nest with six white eggs at Abbeyholme, 
Christ Church, Cheltenham. I took a sparrow hawk’s nest on 
Shardington hill with all the eggs white ; it was built in a fir 
tree. I have also taken a white egg out of a cuckoo that I had 
to stuff. I once took a blackbird’s nest with five light green 
eggs in the Woodlands, the Park, Cheltenham. I took a nest 
of moorhen’s eggs without any spots, at Bridgend farm, and also 
a set of coot’s without spots, near Andoversford. I got a man to 
take a green woodpecker’s nest for me on Mr. Fowler’s farm 
near Cheltenham, it was in a hole in an ash tree, and there were 
seven eggs in it, two of them having a few red spots on them. 
I have also had both redstart’s and starling’s eggs spotted with 
very dark red, nearly black. I have taken a wheatear’s nest with 
six eggs, three of which were pure white. I can fully endorse 
what your correspondent says about the thrush, yellow-hammer, 
linnet, green-finch, wren, chaffinch, and long-tailed tit; all these 
nests I have taken with one or more white eggs in. 
Cheltenham, G. J. White. 
