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destro bas sig them. Potato-vines, beans, beets, and various other culinary plants, suffer 
in the e way.” The services of the robins, in destroying these alone, gave: ore than 
pay m the fruit they devour. Indeed, during the bre age ing season, a robin is seldom 
seen without having in on mouth one of these caterpilla: b, which he 
designs for his young; das the Mobi — Aisa ene broods of young during the 
season, hi f noxious insects than almost all other 
mini er In my gardening i I have had my full share of cutworms; 
itl sh Cat-bird busy early in the morn- 
, Br wn 
n Borida before oe —_ are out of their feather-bedsy fgur ra ca raamo T 
AEC! hing t LIESE 
THE neice FORMATION OF THE — or Sioux Kan OF 
THE MISSION OF OMAHAS AND OF TEKAMA, ON THE BORDERS OF 
Missourr. B aia Marcou. sands the Binid: of the Geological 
Sei of France. 1866. 8vo, pp. 15. With a plate 
In tbis and a previous paper,* the author shows that there is a re- 
e 
bed rocks containing them. The facts are thus stated in the present 
Cle :— 
Between Omaha City, Nebraska, my Sioux City, is a fresh-water bene inetagecoinell ee 
a flora ent ich, in Euro pe, h the epot: h of 
te Miocene (middle) Tertiary Period, but Which in America, however, is found in the 
The steps that led to this discovery are detailed quite fully by Prof. 
F. V. Hayden, in the American Journal of Science for March, 1867. 
LEPIDOPTEROLOGICAL No OTES AND DESCRIPTIONS, I, II y Aug. R. 
sie and Coleman T. Robinson. 8vo, pp. 30. 1865-6. With five 
lates. 
Notes ON THE SPHINGIDÆ or Cupa. By Aug. R. Grote. 8yo. 1865. 
With two plates. 
NOTES ON THE ZYGENIDE oF Cusa. By Aug. R. Grote. 8vo, pp- 16. 
NOTES ON THE LEPIDOPTERA or America. By A. R. Grote and Cole- 
man T. Robinson. New York, 1867. 8vo, pp. 35. With two plates. 
of papers, of which we select the titles of but a few, pub- - 
lished b pas authors in the Proceedings of the reaa iS pa 
New York, are descriptions of new and interesting forms ep our 
native moths, sia | by a admirably pip lithographic plates, 
g y of the rarer er new or previously 
i The authors have delineated many of the forms of that beautiful and 
wA Geitis ; i ; Society 
| ae ee Recomnolanan ia Nebraska, From the Bulletin of the Geological 
