Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . want to examine one personally, a pleasure I havenever yet met with. There is much in the economy of the EnglishKingfisher still to be worked at, and I hope thesefew lines, in which only a hasty review of the sub-ject can be taken, may induce some of my readersto interest themselves in the study and protectionof .this most beautiful bird. I may, perhaps, bepermitted to add that any original communicationswill be very thankfully received by me, as I wishto make my notice of it in my
Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . want to examine one personally, a pleasure I havenever yet met with. There is much in the economy of the EnglishKingfisher still to be worked at, and I hope thesefew lines, in which only a hasty review of the sub-ject can be taken, may induce some of my readersto interest themselves in the study and protectionof .this most beautiful bird. I may, perhaps, bepermitted to add that any original communicationswill be very thankfully received by me, as I wishto make my notice of it in my t: Monograph of theAlcedinidm as complete as possible. All lettersaddressed to the care of The Editor will reachme safely. R. B. Shakpe. THE SAND WASP. {Odynerus parietum.) AVERY small wasp, not larger than a house-fly,but in form and colour much resembling thecommon wasp, occasionally visits the shrubs in mygarden, hovering over and delicately alightiug onthe leaves, as if in search of honey-dew. It may beso, but an examination of the formidable weapons itcarries suggests the thought of other possible pur-. Fig. 216. 1. Sting; 2. Tube; 3. Sheath; x 20. poses. Its sting presents so remarkable a modifica-tion of the parts lately described by Mr. Mills in
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