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tions on Dzierzon’s Theory of PEERS in the Honey-bee,” read 
o the London Entomological Socie 
ts 
iew that “all 
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tw 1 -bee are only of one and the same e type, which, when they are oT 
witl ith tl ut, on 
the maipli when they are fertilized by male semen, produce female b ” from whic 
eor: trae, we might, in the ere ven Siebold, “expect aee that by the 
d a reddish-bro talian bee, the 
ixt f the t 1 ly b be expressed in ‘the hybrid females or wo » but 
must remain purely Ger- 
man or parny P Italian, according as the pum PRR for the production of kybri 
WOE: rk to obtal n hybrids between 
ili 1 Apis Ligusti ica, d t Anis fasciata. and the 
result o omy experiments wae that Fa nha queen-bees fertilized by English drones,, and 
Egyp ptian queen li h produce ed drones,which, as well as 
the ia were hybrid in their characters, and } kab! eid indie 
ence cot the male parent, From this the author arew the E that the eggs o 
quecn-be tili whee her they develop ito 
aq 
drones or 
of the progeny pa: art ray of the paternal ‘and m naternal character af races ie which it na 
pitt that Dzierzon’s was not the true theory of reproduction the y-b pec 
ns of the hybrids were exhibited to the we and Mr. “se smith Pete aa jot con- 
peor Apis Ligustica to be specifically distinct from Apis mellifica) tion of 
the specimens, corroborated Mr. Lowe’s sah te that the hybrid drones distinctly 
showed characters peculiar to Apis mellifica in combination with the eharacters which 
distinguish Apis Ligustica and A. Jasciaia respective ne 
NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 
eng 
ZOOLOGY. 
DO.—Mr. George Clarke, of Mauritius, has discovered a 
large deposit of bones of the Dodo in the swamp known as the ‘‘ Mar- 
caux Songes.” By this now celebrated discovery the whole skeleton 
of the o has been made known, excepting the end of its wing; 
whereas before the head and foot at Oxford, the skull at Copenhagen, 
the foot in London, and the beak at Prague, were all the specimens 
known of the bird. — Quarterly Journal of Science, London. 
SINGULAR VARIETY OF THE FIELD Sp. — On the 1 2th of Oc to- 
ber, I shot a very singular variety of pe ; walk Sparrow (Spizella 
pusilla) Baird. It was precisely similar to the ordinary form of that 
bird, except that its tail was pure white; with the exception, ere 
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usual color. So marked a variety in a bird that generally presents 
very Ri variations in color is so remarkable, that.I consider it 
worthy > = notice. — T. MARTIN TRIPPE. 
