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THE GUIDE TO NATURE. 



He repeated an occasional deep-toned 

 "cher-oog," but whether it was a note 

 of triumph or a call to another round, 

 I could not tell, and perhaps it was 

 neither. 



Caroline M. Hartwell. 



The Thrush Came Back. 



Stamford, Connecticut. 

 To the Editor : 



In the spring of 1898, while walking 

 through the woodlands on the outskirts 

 of Stamford, I chanced to see a little 

 bird lying by the roadside. It was ap- 

 parently left there at its own resource 

 with no one to take care of it. 



I picked the bird up, carried it home 

 and gave it good care — as well as any 

 one could under the circumstances, as 

 the bird was four or five weeks old. I 

 took care of it during the following 

 summer, and in the fall decided to let 

 it fly south with the others of its kind. 



The following spring when the birds 

 came north a neighbor of mine, Mr. 

 Frank Merritt, came to me and asked 

 if I had lost a bird. He said one 

 had tried to get in my window in dif- 

 ferent ways. He caught the bird and 

 handed it to me, and I recognized it 

 as the same one I let fly the previous 

 fall. To make sure of this I put it 



into a cage the same as before and 

 gave it food and water. It acted as 

 though it had always been in the cage. 

 I kept it there for two or three days 

 until the weather was warmer, and 

 then let it fly. As it soared up in the 

 air it chirped and flew away, and that 

 was the last I saw of my pet. 



Otto M. Makowsky. 



An official of the Marconi Wireless 

 Telegraph Company of America re- 

 cently informed the writer that about 

 forty wireless telegraph instruments 

 were in action at one time in the New 

 York Harbor at the Hudson-Fulton 

 celebration. This was undoubtedly the 

 invention's severest test in a maze of 

 wireless "waves." Although there was 

 some difficulty, yet each pair of in- 

 struments could keep in "tune." The 

 official compared the situation to sixty 

 or eighty people in a room all of dif- 

 ferent voices in tone and pitch. Each 

 couple could continue conversation, 

 only by "ignoring" the others and 

 centering all attention on a particular 

 voice. While this center of "atten- 

 tion" might be distracted for a time, 

 it could take up the conversation in 

 a "lull" and go on as before. 



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Minerals of Rye, New York. 



BY WM. C. BANKS, STAMFORD, CONNECTI- 

 CUT. 



A fairly good locality for minerals 

 is the serpentine ridge at Rye, West- 

 chester County, New York. In addi- 

 tion to the published list of minerals 

 from there I have personally collected 

 and have in my possession the follow- 

 ing: phlogopite crystals, purplish color ; 

 deweylite. These two minerals are 



intermixed forming a vein through the 

 serpentine. Nephrite, yellow green to 

 grayish in color, a reddish chrome 

 chlorite, similar to the Pennsylvania 

 kammererite in appearance, nodular 

 coating chromite. There is a great deal 

 of vein material intermediate in char- 

 acter between deweylite and serpen- 

 tine. I have found three good speci- 

 mens of an amphibole mineral partly 

 altered to serpentine, and — there is ser- 



