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other pigments the beautiful graining and shadings of oak wood or 
mahogany on an ordinary pine door or board. The bird had an 
evident wish to deceive and to ward off alien and hostile influences 
by an effort to make believe that there was no bird nest there at all. 
The pieces of linchen were of the same size and were “‘stuck in ” 
at the same distances as the same growths on the tree branch. The 
unities and harmonies had been so well maintained and conserved 
that one would say that the same mind that conceived the tree 
conceived and formed the nest, only working by different agencies 
and instrumentalities. . 
The imitations in nature are all but innumerable. Not long 
since, my attention was directed to what at first sight appeared to 
be a diminutive tree toad, or frog. ‘The marking of the batrachian 
were all accurately representated, even to the orange colored tinting 
at the flank and sides. The phenomenon was a moth, with partly 
closed wings, reposing during day time on the door of a stable, 
Another common moth bears on the upper surface of its wings, 
when folded, the perfect representation of a Roman cross in black 
on a ground of fawn color, and the gilt resemblance of the Greek 
letter ‘‘Gamma’”’ upon the two wings of one of our common moths 
most people are familiar with, | 
There has been an unusual number of bland sunny days during 
the present autumn, with genial temperature continuing well on 
into the middle of the present month of November. On the rith 
day of said month, the piping of the “Nyla” frog was heard 
repeatedly among the sedges of morassy places, singing in the 
afternoon sunshine; and the flowers of the dandelion, and in the 
woods, the blossoms of the late blue violet, (probably ‘‘ V. Canina, 
Var. Sylvestris”) were common in some places, and asters (A 
Uundulatus), and late solidagos, and the may-weed, (Maruta Cotula) 
were seen in flower. Upon returning homeward, towards evening, 
groups of the dancing, or gvrating tipule gnats, were seen enjoying 
themselves on the wing in the calm feeble rays of the rapidly 
declining sun. These social insect parties move in the most 
intricate mazy figures, and the assemblages seemed to be at least a 
hundred in number, and no collisions or jostlings could be detected, 
although the whole host would suddenly move upward or downward 
as if by simultaneous impulse. Some aver that a slight buzzing 
