MArNTARD o)L tk", Mammtils of Florida. 49 



5. TuRDUs usTULATUS swAiNSONi. Olive-backed 

 Thrush. Common for three or four days during the 

 migration. 



6. TuRDUS USTULATUS ALici.^. AHce's Thrush. Found 

 in company with the preceding, but not quite as abundant. 



7. MiMUS CAROLiNENSis. Cat-bird. Common. Espec- 

 ially abundant in the bush prairies. 



8. Harporhynchus rufus. Brown Thrush. Quite 

 common. 



9. SiALiA siALis. Blue-bird. Saw about half a dozen 

 pairs in all. 



( To be Co7ifi//ucd. ) 



THE MAMMALS OF FLORIDA. 



By C. J. Maynard. 



{Co lit in lied from pi^ge 24S) 



But I look upon it in another way, and see in these in- 

 stances but illustrations of a law in nature which grants to 

 nearly all animals the power of assuming protective colors, 

 under certain circumstances, but in a limited degree. This 

 is to be seen in many cases among animals, the most famil- 

 iar of which is that of the Northern Hare [Leims mnerica- 

 7ius)y which in autumn puts off its brown summer dress and 

 takes on one of the color of the snow, among which it has 

 to live throuii^hout the winter. The lioors of Florida return 

 to the mixed colors in sections where the paint root does 

 not grow and where no pains are taken to select black ones, 

 or w^here their food and surroundings are varied. There 

 are apparently few or no analogous instances to the black 

 hoofs being a protection against poison, yet 1 will venture 

 to say that did we understand the entire econoni}- of na- 

 ture, we should find manv similar ones. 



