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ing forms as Ijutterliies, moths, crickets, and grasshoppers furnish 

 sufficient food f<:>r an ordinari'y well-stocked body of water. 

 Scale fish such as bass, croppie, and sunfish are the most diligent 

 varieties in Oklahoma in catching the above mentioned insects on 

 the wing. 



The relationship of our insects, fishes, and birds, therefore, is 

 to a marked extent independent. Economically it is of far- 

 reaching importance. While we do not use insects as food, we do 

 use honey which is an insect food. We also use fish as a food 

 whicli in turn use insects as a food; and many of the insects they 

 use as food, use our food, such as growing cereals. Our migra- 

 tory and terrestial birds do not use much of our food, but they 

 do use insects, which do use it, and which are of a kind that the 

 fish are not able to catch and use as a food. The connecting link 

 in this chain of food conservation is more water in a conserved 

 form. The topography of Oklahoma is well adapted for this 

 kind of conservation. 



QUEER DOUBLE EGGS' 

 A. F. Reiter, 1917. 



The author has recently had brought to his attention the fol- 

 lowing queer types of double eggs : 



An Indiana hen laid a double egg consisting of two normal 

 sized eggs each with a yolk, but having a spindle abbut 3-8 inch 

 in diameter and three inches long connecting the two eggs. The 

 shell was continuous about the two eggs and the spindle connec- 

 tions. ■ 



A Goltry, Oklahoma hen laid a double egg consisting of a 

 sm^all yolkless egg perfectly shelled, surrounded with the white and 

 shell of a second egg. " 



A Joplin, Missouri, hen laid an egg like the last mentioned 

 above, except that the inner egg had a yolk. 



