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ever met with ; two or three specimens came up in a hot bed, in Coaver 

 garden, in 1853. 



A. stercorarius. Common on dunghills, &c. Oct. and Nov. 



A. ephemerus. An elegant little species, and very common. 



A. A beautiful species, allied to the last, came up in some damp 



cinder ashes, in the greenhouse at Coaver, Aug. 10th, 1853. Pileus mem- 

 branaceus, striated, umbonate, the umbo yellowish umber, the rest of the 

 pileus dilute umber, and frosted over with beautiful white jointed scales, 

 the joints tinged with yellow, the scales, or squamula, triangular, curved; 

 Lamella, very narrow, rather paler than the pileus, their margins black, soon 

 dissolving, adnate; stem hollow, white, sub-bulbous, rooting, clothed in 

 scattered, white, meal-like scales, which are thicker towards the top ; rather 

 brittle, sub-librillose. My figures are very much like Sowerby's A. acctabu- 

 losus, though they do not agree in all points, nor can I find any description 

 in English Flora with which it corresponds. 



A. rutilus. One or two specimens only under Scotch firs, at Coaver. 

 Aug. 23rd, 1853. 



{To he contimied.J 



THE SWAMPS OF THE MISSISSIPPI. 



BY GEORGE DONALDSON, ESQ. 



f Continued from page 54.J 



My wardrobe was rather limited, for with the exception of my two blankets 

 (a red one and a blue one) 1 could have put the rest of it into the crown of 

 my hat. 



Two years had nearly elapsed from the time I had raised my gun and 

 killed a " Cedar Bird" in the State of Massachussets, before I found myself 

 roAving up a byou to the west of the great Mississippi. Our progress through 

 it was necessarily slow, from the overwhelming heat of the sun ; the turnings 

 and twistings were numerous, from having to observe the openings and 

 narrow passages through the prairie cane; we passed through a cedar swamp 

 of great extent, completely inundated, the trunks of the trees, on an average, 

 being fully eight feet under water, and some of the animals which I have 

 previously mentioned I had then an opportunity of seeing. The first flock 

 of Ducks which I observed were the blue winged Teal, {Anas discors,) of 

 which I shot one and wounded several. The belted Kingfisher (Alcedo 

 Alcyovi) was of common occurrence, and would frequently perch within ten 

 yards of me, on a drooping branch of a decayed cedar; and the familiar 

 Inanner in which he appeared to recognize me, by erecting his crest and 



