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HABITS OF THE BirrERN.—I notice some statements respecting the 
breeding cits of the Bittern oe lentiginosus) in the lately 
published work of Mr. Samuels, on the Ornithology and Odlogy of 
says that these birds build in bushes or low trees or tufts of grass; 
that the nest is of twigs, grass, and a few leaves; and that they breed 
in communities, a dozen or more nests being often found in the space 
of a few rods. 
The few eggs that I havé found have all been on the ground— 
bare ground — — among thick tufts of lambkill, on the ‘‘ Fowl ‘ia 
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bird’s udit buagh to go unnoticed; and because I am cony iaceat iik 
he, who should expect to find a community of stick-built bittern’s 
nests on bushes or trees in this vicinity, would be disappointe 
South Canton, Mass. W.E. Koor 
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GEOLOGY. 
Tue MIOCENE TERTIARY FLORA or NORTH GREENLAND.—Differ- 
ik voyagers have, from time to time, brought from Greenland, and 
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a steep hill, Ri Atanekerdluk, opposite the Isle of Disco, in lat. 7 
A total of six -six species have been recognized, and from them and , 
the Miocene epoch the climate of North Greenland was warmer than 
it is at pta by fully 16° C., or 28’ 8° F.; and he thinks that “we © 
= ot by any rearrangement of land and water produce for the 
emisphere a climate which would explain the phenomena in 
a Satisfactory manner.” ‘We must admit,” t we are face 
d, and we doubt not —— by the astronomer.” — Quarter! y 
Journal of Science, London 
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MICROSCOPY. 
Puospnorescent ENToMosTRACA.—Minute Crustaceans, belonging 
to this order and allied to the genus Cypridina, were discovered in 
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