390 ` NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 
amongst the connective tissue of the skin, the large veins near the heart, 
and on the surface of the pericardium. In some respects the acarus 
described agrees with Sarcoptes, but has an extraordinary maggot- -like 
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net, an o 
found them in the pelican. It is exceedingly difficult to account for their 
appearance. Are they undergo oing a no eme phase of their existence, or 
have they been accidentally introduced in the cases recorded, and found 
the habitat a favorable one ?— Quarterly perom of Science, London. 
RNITHOLOGICAL. —In the September (1868) NaruRaALIsT Mr. Kedzie 
gives an PRU of the ** breeding peculiarities” of the Golden-winged 
‘Woodpecker (Colaptes auratus), in which he states that he obtained 
thirty-three eggs from one of ip Sad and calls upon any of the read- 
ers of the NATURALIST to surpass 
In the spring of 1865, while in cc TRANS I obtained twenty-two eggs 
from the nest of our common House Wren rfe edon), and doubt- 
less would have got more had not the nest been broken u up. Mr. George 
twenty-eight eggs from the nest of a Kingbird (Tyrannus Carolinensis). 
Although the number of eggs obtained in the two cases mentioned are 
not equal to those got by Mr. Kedzie, yet € the size of the dif- 
TUR birds I think that I am a little ahead o 
Last spring, while in Florida, I found the Bluebttd (Sialia or ae 
ing there. Can any of our ornithologists inform ase 
been found breeding so far South before?—C. H. NAUMAN, pfs Pa. 
REGENERATION OF LruBs.— M. Milne-Edwards has communicated to 
the French Academy some new results of M. Philippeaux's experiments 
on the subject of the regeneration of limbs. The author's early experi- 
ments made on reptiles prove that if the limbs of a newt be cut off, the 
scapula or ilium being left behind, the limbs will be msi ubi but that 
^ oo d the scapula is removed the limb is never reproduced. He has now been 
experimenting on fishes, and has proved that this is true. If the fin-rays 
Of a fish be cut off they will be reproduced; but if the part which is 
homologous with the scapula be removed, no reproduction will take 
place. — Scientific Opinio 
THE MARYLAND Manor OT (Arctomys monax Gmel.), more popularly 
known in this locality by the common name of “Groundhog,” is still 
|... tolerably Been mire ud the southern districts of Lancaster County, P8-; 
ra pai I never knew they were so prolific, at least I have seen nothing oD 
M that indieates anything like the fecundity of a female specimen 
Lh eles i in Drumore T. Township, on the 24th of April last. This subject 
.. before she was killed, brought forth five naked cubs, and afterwards 0 
taxi dermist found that her matrix contained six more, making eleven. 
mg were all entirely nude—not a particle of hair on any of 
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