18 fe) 
NOTES. 
The Grants Pass Courier is authority for the 
following, The Davidson brothers in the Mis- 
souri Flat diggings: located 15 miles southeast 
of Grants Pass, Oregon, had followed a pay 
streak down in ashaft to adepth of 34 feet, and 
there run a 50-foot tunnel lower down tocon- 
nect with it, obtaining pay dirt in narrow seams 
as they dug. These pay streaks are pronounced 
queer by experts who have watched the meth- 
ods of the boys, being neither under the herd 
of quartz or piacer mines, as a good deal of 
hard rock has to be moved in order to uncover 
the pay streaks, which will not average over 
two inches in width. The dirt from these seams, 
however, is panned out p'ace: fashion, an I the 
pure gold loiters in the bottom ofthe pan. It 
is not atall unusual to find $50 worth of the 
bright nuggets in one panful of pry dirt. How 
soon the seams may ‘‘peter out” or lead to 
something grand the boys do not know 
A stencil bearing the name of Captain 
Meriweather Lewis, — who in company 
Clark made the historical Lewis and Clark 
with 
expedition in 1804, — is in the possession ofa 
Mr. Winans, who lives above The Dulles. 
This stencil was used fur marking the goods of 
Captain Lewis. 
THE Tillamook Indians have a tra'lition 
ofaChinese junk wrecked there in the long ago 
and that some of the survivors took Indian 
wives and left descendants who retain some of 
the Oriental features to this day. 
The above may account for finding Chin- 
ese coins at some of the old burial places. 
In Whitman county, Washington, the King 
Bird and the Arkansas Fly-catcher are found 
in the same locality, frequently nesting side by 
side in one tree. 
Water Agates; so called, are found at 
Yaquina Bay, Oregon. Many are almost trans- 
parent aud include a bubble of air floating in 
liquid. A few of them have the shape of; and 
appear to be fossilized clams. 
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Ans. to 4.) The Cowbird Aolothrus ater 
(Boddaert.) is the Molothrus, pecoris of Swain- 
son; and in different localities is known as, 
Cow Bunting; Cow Black bird; Lazy Bird. 
Dolichonyx oryzivorus, (Linn,) is known 
locally as Bobolink; Rice Bird; Reed Bird; Bob 
Lincoln; Butter Bird; Ortolan; and Skunk 
Black-Bird. 
(Ans. to 5.) BRACHIOPODA. Division, 
CLISTENTERATA. 
Genera, Pentamerus. 
Family, Pentameridoe, 
Species, fossil; limited 
to the Silurian; Devonian, and Carboniferous 
periods 
(Ans. to 7.) Circus hudsonius, (Linn.,); 
kown as Marsh Hawk and Hen Harrier; 
favorite nesting place, on the ground, some- 
times in marshy places; nest quite bulky; mostly 
built of grass or sedge in which four or five 
bluish white eggs are laid. 
season took three sets fron the same nest I-5. 
1-4, 1-4. The last pure 
white in color and only one half the size of the 
The writer one 
set token was 
first set taken. 
(9.) Why was the 
named ? We De 
(Ans, to 9.) Presumably; because the first 
described specimen; abovt 1811, was accredit- 
ed to Louisiana, which then embraced the 
tanagers range as now given. 
Louisiana Tanager so 
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