374 General Notes. [June, 
share with us the amusement we had in reading a review of it in the 
British Quarterly for October last. Here is a sentence: “ Professor — 
Dana, who is another Hugh Miller, made his mark as a writer many 
years ago by his Two Years before the Mast. The man who could 
write that was clearly marked out for something better than the life of 
an able-bodied seaman ; but few who have risen in life as he has have 
been able to turn to such use the lessons of sea-faring life learned in 
earlier years.” 
“The man who could write that” precious sentence in a quarterly 
review, confuse two men of such mark, and educe either of them from 
an illiterate sailor, has earned thereby a word of notice. 
on THE BLur Goose. — A few years ago I came upon a flock 
of four Anser c@rulescens, about two miles west of this place, in April. 
They were feeding upon a grass-plot upon the bank of the west fork of 
White Water River. As I approached them, and before I discovered 
them, they rose up from the ground very much in the manner of the 
mallard. I shot one some days later, breaking its wing, and brought it 
home with the hope of saving it, but it died in a few hours. One of the 
three left was afterwards shot by one of my neighbors, Mr. Halstead, 
with a rifle. The wing was shot off at the wrist joint. He secured the 
goose, took it home, fed it, and it became as tame as a’ domestic goose. 
He lived near the bank of the river, but, notwithstanding he had tame 
geese with which it associated, it would never approach the water, but 
would stand upon an elevation and watch those in the river. He kept 
it a year, from April to April, bat a hurricane which occurred in the last 
April blew a fence down upon it and killed it. I saw it in the fall after 
he caught it. It ate corn very greedily, but, unlike the common goose, 
did not swallow the corn whole, but picked up every grain, placed it 
between the outer edges of the bill and bit it in two, the bill snapping 
like a steel-trap. This, to me, was a curious fact, but the fact that for a 
whole year it never entered the water was still more astonishing. — 
Rurus Hayrmonp, Brookeville, Indiana. 
Occurrence oF Maaeaors In A Boy. — Dr. G. W. Martin, a homao- 
pathic physician, and a very intelligent, well-informed gentleman, was 
recently (June 5th) called to see a patient, a lad of about fourteen years 
who had been seized with violent spasms. The doctor gave as an assist- 
ant remedy a purgative, whereupon the lad passed at one stool about 
fifty little insects or bugs, as he called them. ‘The doctor brought them 
to me and I told him that they were dipterous larve. I requested him 
to put some in a box of moist earth covered with glass, and the Aiga 
appeared on the 17th of June. Now can you tell what the fly is? — 
_ Girzerr S. Jupp, Maysville, Ky., June 22, 1875. 
[On submitting the flies to Baron Osten Sacken, he wrote us 4s fol- 
lows: “ The fly you gave me is Anthomyia (Homalomyia) scalaris, one 
of those mentioned in the American Entomologist, ii. 139, and of 
