The Melicerta or Tubicolous Wheel-animalcule--Water-crowfoot or Buttercup--Sedge-warbler--Reed-warbler's Nest--Cuckoos--Horsetail--Hydrae. WALK V.--MAY 69 Drive to Shawbury--Trout Fishing--Parasite on Trout--Curious habit of a Two-winged Fly--Ephemerae, or May-flies--Willy hooking out Dace--Another fish Parasite--Globe Flower--Dragon-flies--Quotation from Thomson's 'Seasons.' WALK VI.--JUNE 84 In the Fields--St. George's Mushroom--Tree-creepers--A handful of Grasses--Nettles and Dead Nettles--Butterfly--Larvae feeding on Nettle Leaves--Fresh-water Polyzoa--Eggs of Newts--Development of Newts--Donacia Beetles--Planarian Worms. WALK VII.--JUNE 103 Hedgehog and young ones--Hedgehogs, injurious or not?--On the Moors again--Great Tomtit--Shrikes or Butcher Birds--Lady-bird Beetles--Swifts--Coots--Water-hens--Grebes--Convolvulus. WALK VIII.--JULY 119 Frog's Spawn Alga--Other Fresh-water Algae--Hawks--Kestrel--Sparrow Hawk--Buzzard--Shrew-mouse, superstitions about--Spiders' Nests and Webs--Spiders' Fangs--Spiders' Feet. WALK IX.--JULY 133 In the Fields again--Scarlet Pimpernel--Goat's Beard--Caddis Worms and Flies--Forget-me-not--Goldfinches--Cruelty of country lads to young birds--Grasshoppers--Crickets--Pike, voracity and size of. WALK X.--OCTOBER 145 In the Woods at the foot of the Wrekin--A hunt for Fungi--Fly Agarics--Victims nailed to a tree--Gamekeepers--Squirrels--Rare Fungi--Woodcocks--Ring-marks on fallen timber--Conclusion. * * * * * COUNTRY WALKS OF A NATURALIST WITH HIS CHILDREN. WALK I. APRIL.