692 NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 
ribbon. They were evidently voluntary muscles acting with consid- 
erable rapidity. It was noticeable that, of all the muscles of the buccal 
mass, these only —— striation. They differed from so he 
dorsal muscles of a smal mp (Palemon sp.), in being more pss stri- 
ated. I have had no elei al as yet, of examining other species, and 
therefore cannot say whether the phenomenon is tant throughout 
the genus. is is the fourth class of the aang ae path the Mollus- 
Labs in which striated muscular fibre has been shown to exist; it has 
een demonstrated in Polyzoa (Eschara) by Milne-Edwards; in Con- 
"hom SEM by Lebert; in Ascidia (Salpa and dattadiiuum by Es- 
ch d Moss; and finally in Gasteropoda in the present case. — W. H. 
A. 
CEDAR BIRD WITH WAXEN APPENDAGES ON THE TAIL. — I have not seen 
it mentioned in any work, nor do I think that many are aware that the 
Cedar bird prets Resin Baird) is occasionally, though very rarely, 
rated 
found with the tail dec with those singular wax-like, really horny 
tips, which " is well nem own adorn the wings. I have recently been 
n a specimen taken in New York State in which the four middle tail- 
specimens here mentioned gave evidence of being unusually old birds.— 
ENRY GILLMAN, Detroit, Michigan. 
WoonprPEckER.—In the spring of 1869 
some Melanerpes erythrocephalus, ‘can pecking a hole for a nesting 
place, at about sixty-eight feet from the ground, in the steeple of one of 
the churches that is situated in our village. One of our citizens, Mr. J. C. 
: Gibson, in order to put a stop to their operations and prevent the farther 
disfiguration of the edifice, Ade. to kill all the birds he saw engaged 
in pecking at the hole thus commenced; he kept up his deadly assaults 
upon them until this spring, Mii his absence from home stopped his at- 
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are now engaged in rearing a brood in it. Is not such persistency of pur- 
pose worthy of admiration, notwithstanding it is exhibited by à harmful 
bird? — L. J. Stroop, Waxahachie, Ellis county, Texas, pedem 24, 1870. 
the wild regions of the Adirondacks. Mr. H. H. Bromley of the Chasm 
House informs me that dead ones have often been found in the woods, 
having been killed by the spines of hedge-hogs which they had attacked. 
M. OE 
