210 NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 
the case in southern Arizona; where the protracted heat and drought of a long summer, 
which seenecies on intermediate seasons, eaxircested the regelar: arity of migration; or even 
entir ely ta! ay fi y impulse.” 
The habits ofa PS of EPSE are thus described :— 
The ge isa xylo paana rather than an insectivorous one. I do not 
mean that the Fa n never eat insects, for coleoptera and their larvæ may often be 
HIE in sa stoma But their lai. sustenance is the cambrium, or soft, inner, live 
10ugh to discri 
cies of Picus, Melanerpes, Centurus, ae Instead o simply “ “ta pping 7 trees 
yt 
larv working within, ‘the Sphyrapicines denude live nrescheg of their varn — gr iei 
area of several square inches at a tim 
from which the bark has been re paved from large ir rregularly shaped spaces; and the 
PEN as mg ht be expected, - ones eedingly different from that produced from the mips 
Bes ides — Sey g sheep species, 
particularly in the full, feed 
The occurrence of hybrids TREE closely allied species of animals 
is now well known sometimes to occur. The author thus speaks of a 
— caer two “nig of TO the Snow-bir 
ceps, because in a my collection are several examples which I regard as most undoubtedly 
brids between the two. Their general aspect is that of caniceps; t the head, Hedley ae 
throat being slate gray, not black; the lores decidedly blackish, etc. 
in 
sal area, colored as in oregonus, ey most marked feature of all, the sides are strongly 
Hngen with pinkish fulvous. S, exactly as in nei ie instead of being plain m gray, 
S in caniceps. _ Oth r speciimens ] agate means still more to- 
rds oregonus, j i 
“The ee, are pich ep hybrids, that they mere not in the least invalidate ot 
negii tio: ag nak species. In the case o Bees ‘olaptes auratus i and me. 
s, it has i a hathi 
? * a 
sees allied ane ane distinct species.” 
The Wild Turkey was found to be “a permanent resident of co 
much so that I procured no specimens. In some portions of ‘tis 
Southern Rocky Mountains region, it is exceedingly numerous.” 
KATUBAL HIST KORT, MISCELLANY. 
TERET 
Tue Lotus.—All the tribes a the White Nile have their harvest 
of the Lotus seed. There are two species of water lily —the 
large 
white flower, and the small tcl The seed-pod of the white lotus 
is like an —— ws kilichoko, containing a number of light-red grains 
equal in size t must; at seed, i ak p d lik PES E A the poppy, and 
