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week or two, while others are naturally much longer in making 
the change, and probably both Rana fontinalis and Rana pipiens, 
and perhaps other species, require to pass one or two winters in 
the tadpole state.— F. W. P 
Tue GOLDEN-WINGED WooprecKker.—In his ‘‘ Notes of an Or- 
nithological Reconnoissance of portions of Kansas, Colorado, Wy- 
oming, and Utah,” J. A. Allen speaks of specimens of Colaptes 
auratus, taken in eastern Kansas, showing a tendency to the col- 
oration of O. Mexicanus in having the “black maxillary patch, 
more or less tinged with red;” and mentions one from Florida 
with the same peculiarity. I have observed red feathers in the 
cheek patches of birds shot at Orange, N. J., in three or four 
instances; and in one case the black was quite thickly sprinkled 
with small specks of bright, shining red, more brilliant than that 
of the nape. Here ye have an instance of occasional indiv viduals 
of one species exhibiting a tendency to vary in the direction of a 
congeneric species, not occurring within fifteen hundred miles of 
the former.—T. Martin Trirpe, Orange, N. J. 
ORNITHOLOGICAL Queries.—I wish to make two or three orni- 
thological queries through the pages of the Naturazistr. What 
are the southernmost localities in which the following species are 
known to breed? viz: Regulus satrapa, R. calendula, Anorthura 
hyemalis, Junco hyemalis, Plectrophanes pictus, P. Lapponicus and 
P. nivalis? What is the eastern limit of Vireo Belli? and what is 
_ the southern and southwestern range of Pediccetes phasianellus? 
I am very desirous of obtaining information on these points.— 
Maritim Trırre, Orange, N. J. 
Mone or Ece-LAYING or Acrion.— Mr. G. W. Dunn writes us 
that while collecting at Santa Cruz, California, he observed a 
species of Agrion (as we find the insect to be) “flying about the 
water united male and female. The female would light om @ 
spear of grass growing in the water; the male would then let g0, 
and the female go down the grass twelve or fifteen inches under 
water and deposit her eggs.” 
Hasirs or MONOHAMMUS pentator.—On the 9th of June, 1872, 
my attention was directed to a yellow pine (Pinus mitis) abou 
fifty. feet high and twelve inches in diameter, in which several 
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