1380. ] Zoölogy. 521 
think generally that he is right. As an instance of his onoma- 
clastic spirit (to coin a word), the fifty-three species of Squillidz 
have been described under seventy-six different specific names. 
The new species described are Lysiosquilla brazieri, goncdactylus, 
excavatus and 9-furcicaudatus. A new genus Septosquilla is 
created for Sguilla schmeltsit A. M.-Edw. and Chloridella is sub- 
stituted for Chlorida, preoccupied. The plates are fair.— 7. S. 
Kingsley. 
ANOTHER Brack Rosin.—In the Bulletin of the Nuttall Orni- 
thological Club for January I described a case of melanism in 
urdus migratorius, the specimen being taken from a nest at 
Freehold, New Jersey, last summer. I have lighted on another 
specimen taken from a nest the same season, in Hudson county, 
ew Jersey. In this instance the color is more intensely black, 
and the neck has considerable of that play of metallic luster, of a 
purple hue in the varying light, which we see in the crow-black- 
bird, Quisculus purpureus. The Freehold specimen is of a sooty- 
ue, not unlike the color of the rusty grackle, Scolecophagus fer- 
rugineus, The Hudson county specimen was owned by a saloon 
keeper near Jersey City, who set a fancy price on his bird, and 
failing to find a purchaser, at last accounts, was trying to raffle off 
is rara avis at two dollars a chance.—S. Lockwood, Freehold, 
New Fersey. 
OCCURRENCE OF THE BOHEMIAN WAX-WING IN WESTERN WASH- 
INGTON TERRITORY,—The past winter has been an unprecedented 
one, snow having fallen to the depth of from two to three feet in 
the valleys—the lowest observed temperature was + 8°, which, 
however, was not as cold as before known. Coincident with the 
snow, appeared for the first time in the history of the country, the 
hemian wax-wing (Ampelis garrulus). 
Many flocks of these beautiful birds were seen in various parts 
of the country, the greatest number observed in one flock was 
about two hundred. They were feeding mostly on the capsules 
of the wild rose (Rosa fraxinifolia), which are abundant here, the 
e some I dissected were literally crammed with these seed 
! vessels. 
Since the fitst of F ebruary none have been seen, hence I con- 
clude that, with the disappearance of the snow, they have retired 
to colder regions.— ¥, K. Lum, Lewis county, Washington Territory. 
Rose-BreasteD GROSBEAK AND CoLorapo Porato BEETLE.— 
Regarding this useful and pleasing bird, the following appeared 
sa the New York Weekly Tribune, of February 11, 1880, to wit: 
‘Prof. C. E. Bessey, of the Iowa Agricultural College, several 
years ago observed the rose-breasted grosbeak’s habit of feeding 
on the Colorado potato beetle * * *. Its useful propensity 
Was again remarked during the past year by a correspondent of 
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