




NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 

BOTANY. 
DOUBLE FLOWERED SARRACENIA. —In the summer of 1867, I found a 
specimen of the Sarracenia purpurea, double, in East Hampton, Mass. In 
the summer of 1868, I found a specimen of the Geranium maculatum, with 
all the parts of the flower of a pure white. — E. S. MLLER, Wading River, 
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ZOOLOGY. 
THE BREEDING HABITS OF BIRDS are subject to so great variation 

England,” says they excavate a "winding hole.” Mr. Fowler and Mr : 
Endicott, in the NATURA 
thus implying that this is the invariable, or even general form? One of 
the nests which I have found had the bottom covered with 
_ I have in my collection a set of Long-eared Owls' eggs, six in number. 
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