THE OREGON NATURALIST. 



Frogs, however can at times get their 

 revenge on most of these foes, for the full 

 grown, wide mouthed batrachians will 

 eat young birds whenever they can catch 

 them, and one of them was seen to swallow 

 a robin that had been shot, though the 

 tail feathers, being too long for its stomach, 

 protruded from its mouth. They will eat 

 small snakes and one of them has been 

 known to swallow a "grass snake" three 

 feet long. Frogs also eat fishes, but there 

 is one foe, besides man, on whom they 

 cannot retaliate, this is the raccoon. 

 Raccoons often prove very destructive to 

 frogs and on them the unfortunate am- 

 phibians can have but little hope for 

 revenge. 



A white pelican, shot this season on the 

 Columbia river near Umatilla, has been 

 mounted and is now in the collection of a lady 

 taxidermist of Umatilla. 



Skins to be of any value should have a tag 

 attached to them, giving sex; where collected, 

 date of collection, who by, length, 

 stretch of wings and wing measurements. 



MEXICAN HIEROGLYPHS. 



II. 



The hieroglyphs reproduced in (the last issue 

 of this journal) were found on the adobe walls 

 of the rooms in a cave-dwelling. The cave 

 itself is a large one. The front part of it only 

 having been used as a dwelling, and is one of 

 a number scattered here and there on either 

 side of a narrow valley a few miles from the 

 mormon settlement of Pacheco, in north-west- 

 ern Chihuahua. 



On the opposite side of the valley from this 

 cave is one having a wide entrance and upon 

 its rock face, in a sheltered position, may be 

 found the nine drawings, done in white, which 

 are here reproduced. 



Francis E. Lloyd, 



Pacific University, 

 Forest Grove, Or. 



MEXICAN HIEKOCLVPHS. 



