496 NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 
A VARIETY OF THE Ox-EYE Daisy.—I am not a little interested 
in the note in the NATURALIST for September, by Professor Tenney, in 
relation to the form of the Ox-eye Daisy, which he suspects to be 
been detected. Within a period of fifteen years past, I have found it 
some three or four times, I think; and I never suspected it to be any- 
thing but a chance variety of Leucanthemum vulgare. In the summer 
of 1865, it was brought to me from a spot close by my house, agreeing 
in all respects with the description by Professor T.; and wishing to 
could become known. I cannot believe it to be specifically distinct 
from the common Leucanthemum, or anything more or less than a va- 
riation, through accidental neta from the normal state of the spe- 
cies. To my mind it stands in the same line with the petaloid form 
of Penthorum, or the yna condition of Linaria vulgaris; an 
many other genera might be cited as furnishing instances of like de- 
partures now and then from the ordinary and natural style. —C. M. 
RACY. 
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ZOOLOGY. 
Tue BreepinG Hairs or Birps. — In reading the lately published 
work of Mr. Samuels, on the Ornithology and Odlogy of New Eng- 
land, I noticed some statements regarding the breeding habits of some 
of grasses, leaves, and feathers, is built, —or laid, which would, per- 
haps, be the better term. This hole is sometimes as oo as six or 
eight feet, usually from four to six, in length.” Page 1 
My experience in regard to the breeding habits of a Kingfisher 
is entirely at variance with the above. Of two burrows 
Spring, one measured thirty-four, aa the other thirty-five inches 
in length; they were excavated in the form of an elbow. The pas- 
‘Sage leading from the entrance in one of them was PETR inches 
in length; and then turning to the right, lead to a cavity of about 
~ ten inches in diameter, the bottom of which was three-fourths of an 
inch below the bottom of = way leading to it, and four and a half 
inches oo the form of an oven; including the cavity, 
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