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l'R.t:C()CIAI, aRALLATORKS— I.IMICOL.E. 



iiiiil yuiiiig art' found fully fli'tlK«'<l alMHit tl»' niiiMlt' of .luni'. It hrt-cdH in large Hoci- 

 ctit'H, in (lamp |ilac»'8 covfri'd wiili a thin liiTlKi^f, where therr arc tusMOfks, or small 

 dry jilai'fs; and also in scattcrt'd pairs in tlir (iclds, and in suiall mar.sln's cnvcnil 

 with t,'raMs or Imshfs. In a dry spot the liird makrs a dcprrssinn aliont thric inchi ^ 

 dt'fp, linin^ it m-atly and randiilly witii dry grassi-s. an<l dt-pnsitinK four <'j,'j,'s, on whirli 

 both niah- and ffmalc sit. It' an intrndt-r apprnacht-s this cdlnny, thi' liirds meet him 

 whfn at some distain'f I'ntm it. ulti-rin;; Iniid cries; and when he is anmnKst the nesl> 

 all the birils tly overhead, nttcrinj,' continual lamentations. Itelore they iiavu ej,'i,M 

 they are very Hliy, rar»dy approaching within gunshot; hut when the yiaing an 

 hatched they arc very coiirageons, .md will come within n few feet of the intruder. 



Mr. A. Hcn/.on — also (juotcd l>y .Mr. I>rcs.scr — met with this hird nesting in Den- 

 murk, <ni the wost coast of •lutland. lie olitaim-d its eggs as early as April VJ ami 

 as lute us July 4. They were usually deptjsited early in May. 



Gknis TOTANT7S, Hk« iistkin. 



ToUuiHn, UKcnsr. Oiii. TusiIumI). Idiitsilil. isici. aS'J (tyjio, ticolopax lolitnim, LiSN.). — Nai'M. 



VoK. Dtutsrtil. VIII. r.:t. liii.w. (mm. li. III. .ir.'. 

 Glottis, Kiicn, HiiiiT. /(ii)l. iHltl, ;to4 (iv|M', Tnliiiiin iilnttin, liKciiHr., = iiiliulariuH, Ul'NS.).— 



N11..SH, oni, .Sii.v. II. I SI 7, :>:>. 



Gambdtii, KaI'I". .*<k. Kiit. K.ur. TliiiTw. ls2!i. 'ti {\\\n\ SVn/o/H'r caliilris, Linn.). 



Chau. Hill u.'<iiiillv MJciiilii, luiii <li;.'litlv iiptnriuil t( liniiiiiliv, tin' Intcnil ^'ronvt- nl'tlic inii\. 

 illii f.xlt-n<lin<; ulioat Imll' wny Id ilic tip, Ni> wcli iH'twccii tin- iniiliili' ami iiiiii'r tnc.i. Tiu>ii- 

 alidiU twice i(H liiug UK tliu laiildli! tiH-. 



Iluviii;,' I'urct'ally cxumincd and rinnpurccl the (ivc siiecicK imually ri'lVrriMl to the sn-rallcij 

 gtMii-ra tliuiiliillii, TiitdiiuK, ami <!liiltls, wiili tlicir nearest allies, wilii llic view ol' iletiiiin^,' the hcv- 

 erul ;.;eiieric grouprt uhuuIIv recnjjni/ed, we find that no twn species a),'ii'e exactly iii the detail 1 cl 



T. melani'leiieuf. 



titructure, and that, thurefore, iid characters exist which warrant a siiljdivision of the geims ToIhum 

 (with T. MwjnatilU as type), Iteyoml tlie reiMi;;iiitit>n nf Ithijiu-ajihilnn and /•h-jilhrDHcilu.i. Tliu milv 

 blieuies agiwing closely with the type ol' tiitf j^eiias Tolmnm is the Anierican '■^ ttoinlicfla'' Jltiri]"^ 

 ((•Mkl), which dill'ers in huvin;,' the t)ill thicker and not at all iiptmneil terniinally, and in tli' 

 much longer jaimuries, with sluatt r ami lirouder teitials ; the latter it; T. Mtiiiiuatilin reuchin.: 

 nearly to the end of the longest ipiills. " fimnbittu " iiuUiiioltin-d (( }mI''.I-.) is like Jfarijun in iv'.miI 



