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ZOOLOGY. 
Rage Snakes FROM FLORIDA. — Mrs. A. D. Lungren, of Volusia, 
has made collections in natural history which have added a number of 
facts of interest to the herpetology of Florida. She has obtained the 
Contia pygea, a calamarian form, of which but two specimens are known, 
both from Volusia. The second specimen of Dromicus flavilatus comes 
from her collections. It will be remembered that the first specimen of 
is rare species was procured by Dr. H. C. Yarrow, on the coast of 
North Carolina, at Fort Macon. She has also found the Helicops Allenii 
in the same neighborhood, and a new species of Ohorophilus (O. verru- 
cosus Cope). Persons desiring collections from that region, in any de- 
partment of natural history, cannot do better than communicate with her. 
. D.C. 
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Rev-Beturep Nut-Haron (Sırra CANADENSIS) NESTING ON THE 
Grownp (?).— On the 27th of May the son of a neighbor brought me 
four eggs from a nest he discovered in the woods, stating that it was 
built in a hole in the ground, and that he found it by the old bird’s leav- 
Ing it and attempting to lead him away by the well-known artifices of 
Many ground-building birds. The nest contained six eggs, white, with 
a faint blush, well covered, especially at the larger end, with coarse red- 
dish-brown spots, mingled with a few faint lilac ones. While he was 
Temoving the eggs the bird was very courageous, and seemed much 
Inclined to attack him, but when frightened away alighted on the side 
of a tree, up which she ran “like a woodpecker.” He described the 
bird as follows: In size, quite small; color of back, blue; of breast 
and under parts, reddish-brown, a very little white on it, and quite a 
long bill. As this description was volunteered without any questioning 
on my part, I think it must be quite correct; and, taken with the climb- 
mg habits of the bird, I can think of no bird which it can indicate but 
the red-bellied nut-hatch, though I have never known that bird to be de- 
scribed as nesting elsewhere than in a tree or stump. The eggs meas- 
* The departments of Ornithology and Mammalogy are conducted by Dr. ELLIOTT 
Coves, U, S; A. 
