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that there are three (if not four) distinct types ; moreover we believe we have 
observed in these a distinct preference for particular food, some preferring dead 
nettles, others docks, some mint, and a veiy fine specimen we reared last year 
subsisted chiefly upon lettuce. 
In the Naturalist it is asserted that Xanthia aurago, whose occurrence in 
south Yorkshire we chronicled last month, is not looked upon as a rarity by 
the old collectors in that district. 
The Natural History Journal and School Reporter for April contains a very 
interesting list of the “game birds ” of the N.W. comer of Bedfordshire. 
Professor T. D. A. Cockerell, once a prominent member of the “Practical 
Naturalist’s Society,” describes anew chrysis (Chrysis mesillce) from New 
Mexico in the American Entomological News. 
The Ca?iadian Entomologist contains descriptions of some New North 
American Homoptera as well as several articles interesting to lepidopterists. 
We have also received the Collector's Monthly , the Sussex and Hants 
Naturalist and the Western Gazette. 
EDITORIAL NOTES. 
We are making such arrangements for the new volume which we commence 
next month that we confidently anticipate a large accession to our subscription 
list. Our magazine will be emphatically THE Journal for ornithologists and 
oologists and the interesting and valuable notes and articles we hope to publish 
will make it most useful to all lovers of bird life, especially' to students of 
variation in plumage and in the colouring of the eggs of the feathered tribes 
and we invite all ornithologists and oologists to send us any instances they may 
observe. At the same time we assure entomologists that the Journal will 
continue to be, as in the past, largely devoted to their interests also. The two 
editors are both such ardent entomologists that there need be no fear but that 
a large portion of each number in the coming volume will be devoted to 
lepidoptera, coleoptera, as well as the more neglected orders. Among the 
useful papers we shall publish will be some on “ Rearing Larvae from Ova” 
and we shall continue the series on “ Some varieties of British lepidoptera,” 
the illustrations, which we shall entrust in luture to a first-class London 
engraver, a specialist in entomological illustration, for we are determined to 
spare no expense in the matter of our engravings and are resolved to have them 
good and accurate in future, whatever the cost. 
The index etc. to Vol. II. takes up so much ol our space tnat we have not 
room to enter into fuller details of our plans for the new volume nor to give a 
list of the well known entomologists who have promised us contributions and 
which includesDr. Knaggs, F.L.S., Ven. Archdeacon Hey,M.A., Rev. Theodore 
Wood, F.E.S., H.J. Turner, f.e.s.,J. W. Tutt, F.E.S., J. S. Robson, F.E.S., B. 
Tomlin, B.A., W. Harcourt, Bath, etc. 
Articles will also appear by well known writers on botany, conchology, and 
geology so that the students of these sciences may rest assured a portion of 
our space will be devoted to them. 
We also hope to publish some articles on “ Vivaria and hoAv to manage 
them ” including hints in marine and fresh water aquarie. 
But in order to enable us to carry out all our plans we must have an 
increased number of pages and the extra cost must be defrayed by, at least the 
quadrupling, of the number of our subscribers. We shall leel under great 
obligations to our readers if they will introduce the paper to their friends and 
each one endeavour to get us four new subscribers at the lowest and we will 
with pleasure forward a few circulars to any one who will kindly distribute 
them for us. 
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He was a lucky young man who bought those two great auk’s eggs at a sale 
