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Ancistrodon contortrix B. and G.), about two feet long, verd Leoni per- 
fect, except that the head showed signs of incipient digestion. Soon 
afterward this was ise by a good sized frog, agire ian farther ad- 
vanced in digestio 
How the Black dn managed to capture the Copperhead bipes being 
bitten is quite a Cong Possibly he took the Copperhead at a disad- 
vantage, while was busily engaged in swallowing the frog and so 
swallowed both din and frog together. — I 
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CITATION OF AUTHORITIES. — Without intending to discuss a question 
which has caused much controversy, I call attention to the fact that after 
ascertain who first stated in 5 the fact known to all,of a given species 
of described Mya be eing a Unio 
Mr. Prime in his earliest paper on Pisidium (since corrected), cited 
Gould for P. dubium (Cyclas dubium of Say), with the synonym P. a 
ruptum Hald. (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., July, 1841), the latter being the first 
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Pisidium abruptum of July was corrected in October, in the words 
dium abruptum is not distinct from P. dubium Say,” which, under this 
rule, gives me a citation to which I would not have been nii had I 
not Abpea a blunder 
Some authors cite Prof. Baird for the Bluebird (a Linnéan species, Sia- 
lia satis (Pacific R. R. Reports, Vol. 9, p. 222, October, 1858); but if the 
es is not eed it is mine, because I mentioned it fifteen years pre- 

posed that “the name of the author of a species, or genus, or family, 
Shall remain forever attached thereto, and shall be considered a part of 
the said specific, generic, or family name.”—S. S. H 
THE LOGGERHEAD SuriKe.—In the September and February numbers 
of the NATURALIST rien are asked about the Butcher Birds return- 
ing to its empaled prey. As I have lived South, I have never seen à 
Butcher Bird, and so € oe nothing as to its habits, but as for its South- 
ern brother, the Loggerhead Shrike (Collyrio Ludovicianus), I have often 
Watched it return to the prey which it has killed and hung on thorns. e 
Shake h had been more than half pe Sitting sir behind some 
tin near by, I determined to keep watch, but had not remained there 

