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build in chinks and crannies, or affix a nest anywhere about a building.” 
The matter is already decided, and the surmise verified, as I learn from 
a correspondent, Dr. Rufus Haymond, well known by his contributions 
to the ornithology of Indiana. He writes as follows: “ The depot of the 
White Water Valley Railway, in Brookville, Indiana, is built upon 
stone piers, and spans the hydraulic canal, some five or six feet above the 
water. While at the depot during the past summer I saw a bank swal- 
low fly under the building with several blades of grass in her bill; and 
being curious to see what she would do with them, I watched her, and 
saw her carry them through a two-inch auger hole which had been bored 
through a pine board. The spot was inaccessible, owing to the water ; 
but I know from the droppings about the hole that this was her nest.” 
Ihave never seen or heard of any previous record of such habit, and 
consider Dr. Haymond’s statements very interesting. — ELLIOTT COVES. 
Tae CHAPPARAL Cock. — Can any of your ornithological readers 
give us any information as to the food of the chapparal cock, or road 
runner, as it is usually called in this region ( Geococeyx Oalifornianus). 
It is found, though it is not abundant, along the foot-hills in this vicinity. 
A friend gave me a specimen killed here a few days ago, but I believe it 
is not found north of the “ Divide.” On mounting the bird I found in its 
gizzard no recognizable matter except débris of grasshoppers, and as no 
one has seen a grasshopper alive here for two months, the question is, 
Where did the bird get them? Does it provide its food in the season, 
laying it up for winter? One of the grasshoppers was in perfect condi- 
tion, except that it had lost some of its legs. Under a lens the mass of 
the comminuted material was seen to consist of minute pieces of legs and 
Sema of grasshoppers. — V. T. CHAMBERS, Colorado Springs, 
al. 
Tue “Sisco or LAKE TIPPECANOE.” — I am informed by Mr. Je A. 
Henshall of Oconomowoc, Wis., that the fish described by me under the 
above name (Argyrosomus sisco, AMERICAN NATURALIST, March, 1875, 
P- 135) occurs in abundance in Nemahbin Lake, Waukesha County, 
_ Wis., which empties into Rock River, through Bark River, and in Okau- 
chee, Oconomowoc, and La Belle lakes, in the same county, which send 
their waters also to Rock River by way of the Oconomowoc. 
A notice of this species occurs in Rafinesque’s Ichthyologia Ohiensis, 
P. 44, as follows: — 
“The white fish of Lake Erie, Coregonus albus of Le Sueur (or 
Salmo clupeiformis of Dr. Mitchell), a fish which differs from the trouts 
i being toothless, is said to be found in some streams of Indiana at the 
head of the Wabash and Miami; but I have no certain proof of this.” — 
D. S. Jorvan. 
Corats AND Corax Istanps; By James D. Dana. — We are not 
going to review the book, as it is one whith we suppose a large part of 
Cur readers are familiar with already.: We only propose that they shall 
