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been sat on very long this will be found a good process to clean out the 
embryo: Make alittle larger hole than usual in the side, pick out as 
much of the young bird as you safely can, and then blow water into the 
egg with a blow-pipe; let it stand for some sansa in a dark drawer or 
box; keep repeating this process about every third d Pa gra adually Mie 
ing more water into the shell, and picking a little out, till the whole 
a rare and valuable egg. I often put large eggs where the Cabinet-bug 
hiner can get into them, and clean out any suas matter adhering 
o th . BOARDMAN. 
bos. OF EARTHWORMS.*—-Last spring (and this) I was led to watch 
the common earthworms in my garden, and on the plot of grass saw their 
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action of the rings of the whole body drew the leaf and one inch of the 
tender stock into his mouth, and then by a violent muscular action drew 
the whole stock of young and tender clover towards him, and when all 
the substance was sucked out he let the plant go and it (the stock) flew 
back to its former place. The leaf and stem were entire, but looked as 
though it had been boiled. I then laid a small piece of cold mutton 
down, and he appeared to feast both on the fat and lean, dragging them 
after him, as his powers of suction. could not actas well as if they had 
been held like the clover leaf. I also find that when the male and 
female are together AE appear as one worm of double the size. — R. P. 
Knicut, Pi hiladel; lphia 
Honey BEE steel BY ASCLEPIAS POLLEN.—I found Bidens frondosa 
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am either got free themselves or with a little beatin zs Hfotiiid them most 
undantly i in à neighborhood of Peekskill, N. Y., being much assisted 
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llen mass on his leg alights on the flower, and as 
2 ot his leg up, in reaching over to the other side, brings the blade 
; € pollen mass into the stigmatic cleft, where it adheres, separating 
e stalk, which still remains attached to the insects leg. This 
* Communicated by the Smithsonian Institution. 





