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these portales are spread the dining 
tables where meals and liquors are 
served. 
Here the Vers, Cruzano of means 
brings his family on band nights and 
takes his meal and his drinks, while 
newsboys, bootblacks, “vendadors” de 
flowers, fans, curios, lemonade, and 
what not pass in and out among the 
guests and tables and cry their wares 
or run errands. All are happy con- 
tented, fat and peaceful in a land of 
elbow room, fresh air, and ease, and 
where the days never exceed thirteen 
hours in length, between sun up and 
sun down, I suppose—and where 
though warm, none ever are prostrated 
or sun struck, perhaps because the 
people have learned to economize the 
cool of the day by arising and break- 
fasting at four in the morning, then 
taking a nap at mid day. All business 
stores, etc., close up from twelve un- 
til two. In Mexico City, it is from one 
to two-thirty. 
I enclose a picture of the Cathedral 
covered with buzzards taken from 
another tower somewhat higher at 
about six-thirty p. m. Also some pic- 
tures of a buzzard taken in Oaxaca. 
He is perched on top of a cactus at 
least twenty feet high and spreading 
his wings towards the rising sun to 
dry. There had been a night rain. 
Many are seen thus drying them- 
selves at almost any and all times. 
This picture is dark because it was 
taken against the sun before the sun 
had risen. He let me walk right up 
underneath him without flying. They 
are all very tame. When the shutter 
snapped however, he dropped his wings 
to look at me, but did not fly away. I 
have seen one buzzard with wings 
spread standing on the ground during 
a drizzle and apparently trying to 
shield his mate which stood under 
one wing. I doubt however if that 
were his purpose, 
GENERAL NEWS, 
Being called some twelve miles 
south of Lacon, Illinois, the latter 
part of last month on business, I was © 
much surprised to find a colony es- 
timated by parties who live in that 
vicinity, of all the way from one hun- 
dred to three hundred, Hnglish Ring- 
necked Pheasants. They seemed to be 
scattered over a territory some three 
miles wide by five miles long, up and 
down the Illinois river, and adjacent 
bluffs. People there told me _ that 
many young had been hatched this 
year, one brocd containing eighteen. 
They are rigidly protected by the 
farmers living in that vicinity, and 
without doubt, will rapidly increase as 
they seem to have become a fixture 
there. I only saw one bird, a male 
along the edge of an cats stubble 
field. He seemed in perfect plumage 
and not the least alarmed, though we 
drove along within fifty yards of him. 
—Hditor. 
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