708 General Notes. [ November, 
(F. schaufussi var. americana), both fall victims to their insatiate 
rapacity. Large numbers of these brown and yellow ants are 
reared in the slave-making colony, and they make excellent 
nurses for their masters. They also make raids upon two species 
of Aphenogaster, but these do not remain long with their captors. 
But I am happy to state that there are two species of ants in the 
grove which the red marauders dare not attack— Camponotus 
meleus and Polyergus lucidus they*never attack, however small or 
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weak the colony.— Mary Trea 
Nores on Paciric Coast Mammats.—The curious case of a 
breed of one-toed hogs, mentioned by Dr. Coues, is paralleled, at 
least in an individual instance, by that of a one-toed deer, the 
four feet of which were presented recently to the California 
Academy of Science. Unfortunately the only parts sent were the 
metatarsals and toes, so that it would be difficult to be certain of 
the species further than that it was a Cariacus. The deer was 
killed in Mendocino county, Cal., but no information as to the 
existence or non-existence of others resembling it has yet been 
obtained. In all cases the third toe was the only one utilized for 
progression, but the extent of the development of the fourth toe 
differed in the respective feet. 
Mr. Chapman, a taxidermist of San Francisco, has a deer horn 
which is eighteen inches long, has an external basal prong five 
and a-half inches long and an internal posterior prong four and 
a-half inches long, branching off six and a-quarter inches from 
the slightly re-curved tip of the main antler. 
In the collection of Mr. Lorquin, another taxidermist of San 
Francisco, there was, not long since, a very large pair of horns of 
Cervus canadensis, full grown yet with the velvet still perfect. 
The left horn measured four feet eleven inches along the curve, 
the right, about an inch less. The right had four branches near 
the base, and divided into four prongs at the crown; while the 
left had but three basal prongs and three coronal branches. The 
distance between the horns at their greatest outward curvature 
was three feet eight inches, and the tips were two feet six inches 
apart. Will some reader of the Naruratisr kindly inform me 
whether similar differences between the two horns of this species 
are the rule or the exception; and also whether the large palmated 
anterior basal prong of the male reindeer’s horn usually occurs 
on one horn only or on bot i 
The lynx of Alaska, which I suppose is Lynx canadensis, 
appears to attain very large dimensions, since the largest among 
several large ones in the possession of Mr. Blunt measured our 
feet one inch from the tip of the nose to that of the tail. This 
= gentleman had also an albino gopher of a dirty white tint. By 
the term “gopher” I do not mean the Spermophilus, which is 
often miscalled by 
that name, but the true gopher (Thomomys 
ockington. a 
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