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it is the Tringa crassirostris of Temminck and Schlegel, a species 
hitherto known only from eastern China and Japan, and an inter- 
esting addition to our northwestern fauna. W. H. DALL 
GEOLOGY. 
Ow 4 Few MINERAL LOCALITIES WHICH ARE Nor MENTIONED IN 
THE Booxs.—Beryl occurs sparingly in the southern part of Sul- 
livan, New Hampshire. I have an absolutely perfect crystal, both 
terminations perfect, from this place. Dana mentions beryl from 
Sullivan with a query. 
From Alstead, N. H., I have obtained crystals of beryl which 
have yielded the most beautiful gems. The beryl here is found 
near the well known mica quarry. In the mica quarry itself there 
occurs an interesting variety of albite, containing prominent scales 
of a-silvery colored mica. The small crystals of beryl from the 
old mica quarry are remarkable for their modified terminations. 
In Gilsum, N. H., I have obtained crystals of beryl, and fine 
crystals of mica. I found them in a cut made through the coarse 
granite, for the highway, between Gilsum and Marlow. 
A mile or two northwesterly from the centre of the town of 
Acworth, N. H., and on the north side of the old highway from 
this town to North Charlestown, there is a locality of blue kya- 
nite, an account of which, however, I gave at the Troy meeting 
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. 
The kyanite will be seen, by the careful observer, on the stone 
wall by the wayside, and it is found in place a little to the north- 
ward of the wall. A variety of kyanite (fibrolite?) is common in 
the mica slate of the eastern part of Marlow, N. H. Black tour- 
maline also occurs in this town. 
Plumbago occurs sparingly in the last named town; also more 
abundantly in Weare, N. H. The fact of its occurrence in Weare 
may have been recorded before. I am not sure about it. 
Acicular crystals of rutile in perfectly limpid quartz occur as 
owlders in the southern part of New Hampshire. I have one of 
these which I obtained in Jaffrey, N. H., but of its exact locality I 
Am not now sure. I may here add that I have a similar specimen 
ftom the northern part of Vermont, and from the fact that not a 
few Specimens of this sort have been found in these two states, it 
‘8 evident that somewhere to the northward there is an important 
cality of this mineral SANBORN TENNEY. 
