V«\ XXIX] ^^^^^.^^ ^,^^^^ 4QJ 



and native in America. In any event, it is not Chinese. Newstead in 

 England found that the species of Parus fed freely on the immature females 

 of the closely related Pulvinaria ribesioe. The females of this group of 

 Pulvinaria lay their eggs (to the number of a thousand or more) in a mass 

 of white cotton-like wax, which adheres to whatever touches it. Hence 

 the insect is aided as well as injured by birds, for the ovisacs adhere to 

 birds' feet, and the eggs are thereby carried from tree to tree.^ T. D. A. 

 CocKERELL, Bouldcr, Colorado. 



Ornithological Notes of Rafinesque in the Western Review and 

 Miscellaneous Magazine, Lexington, Ky. — The following are supple- 

 mentary to my article in 'The Auk', April, 1912, p. 191. They occur in 

 meteorological articles by Rafinesque in the "Western Review and Mis- 

 cellaneous Magazine," as follows: 



Vol. II, No. 2, p. 123. " Animals. On the 9th was seen the first Phaleria 

 or butterfly. On the 15th heard the Blue bird, or Sylvia Sialis, the 

 harbinger o[f] spring." 



[Dated] " Transylvania University, 1st March, 1820." 

 Vol. II, No. 5, p. 311. " Animals. The first Martins were seen in the 

 snow storm of the 2d; they became common the 6th. On the 11th 

 were heard the first frogs." 



[Dated] "Transylvania University, 1st May, 1820." 

 Vol. II, No. 3, p. 186. " Animals. Heard the Dove on the 19th. On the 

 25th the Black birds were already noisy." 



[Dated] Transylvania University, \st April, 1820." 

 Vol. Ill, No. 2, p. 127. Animals. On the 28th, the first flight of wild 

 Geese was seen going South. All the Swallows and Martins disap- 

 peared with the first white frost." 



[Dated] " Transylvania University, October 1st, 1820." 

 — Samuel N. Rhoads, Haddonfield, N. J. 



