252 NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 
On our farm is a swamp of about three acres, from which issues a 
rivulet, getand three feet wide and three to five inches deep. I have 
coast. l my attempts to obtain a full view of the fish proved fruitless, 
but I judged bythe ripples it made ou the surface of the water, while 
passing shallow places that it must be some three or four inches in length. 
ently whilst our woodchopper was at work in this swamp, he cut 
down a tree which fell into one of these pools, and a fish was thus thrown 
out upon the snow. It proved to be a veritable Lota about three and one- 
quarter inches long. It resembled Lota compressa in every particular, 
ui thatits thickness might have been greater in proportion to its 
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m rivulet empties into Whetstone brook, a stream ordinarily about 
two rods wide and two or three feet deep, and has a bed differing little 
from that of the Connecticut River. I iive lived by this stream a 
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n this distance are two obstructions, partly natural and partly artificial, 
one thirty feet, the other twenty feet high, so that it can — e supposed 
that there is any egress from the river to the rivulet by w 
The fishes of the Whetstone are Salmo fontinalis Mit s , Rhinichthys 
atronasus Agas., Boleosoma Olmstedii Agas., Semotilus argentev. 
argyrus Americanus Putn., and Holomyzon nigricans Agas. ; a e 
be formed, whether these swamps are the breeding places of Lota com- 
pressa, or whether the specimen mentioned above may not be a new 
species. à 
The train of thought to which a solution of these questions might give 
rise, would naturally lead us to examine into the effects that €— local 
or particular causes may have upon the development and for 
life. With respect to the size of this specimen, being vint smaller 
than those found in the Connecticut, we may say, that all fish of the 
dimensions than in the Wissens i the OMM being as striking in the 
latter case as in the former. — CHARLES C. Frost, Brattleborough, Vt. 
A WnurrE Woopcuuck. —It may "nd you and some of your readers 
to know that I have obtained a perfectly white woodchuck, a perfect al- 
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bino of Arct s monax clin. There is not a dark hair on his 
body or tail, and his eyes are of a clear, rich, scias color. Hew 
caught on North-west hill in Williamstown, Mass., and brought to me 
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alive. From the first he fed freely on clover, bermas the clover heads, 
