
NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 

BOTANY. 
GEOGRAPHY OF PINUS PUNGENS.--- In a note to a paper on “ Variations 
in Pinus and Tazodium," recentiy published by the Philadelphia peni 
of Natural Sciences, I have given snother locality for them: * e 
hills north of Harrisburg, along the i fc nam mire are pod 
abundant through the eater’ of the State. — T. MEE 

ZOÓLOGY. 
Dors with Honws.— The doe with horns, mentioned in the July num- 
ber of the NATURALIST, must have been a very fine specimen, as well as à 
very marked example of the imperfect development of sex which some- 
times occurs, and has been found by naturalists in all branthes of the 
animal kingdom. I saw a few years ago a doe with a pair of horns; it 
was about eighteen months old: and was in an enclosure on Long Island. 
In the same enclosureBwas a buck of the same age; the horns of - 
animals were so nearly alike that they could not have been told apart 
have heard of others that have been killed in the Adirondacks, the horns 
iie like those of the Base of the second or third year. They ar 
own there as barren d 
pod inability to Nube young, however, seems to depend on the 
amount of masculine nature inlierited, as the doe that I saw did have one 
fawn. 
Martin says: “In domestic cattle, where the cow produces twins, one 
kee a male and the other a female, the female calf is very apt to be bar- 
and the external form to resemble that of the ox. A calf of this 
tad is called a free martin, the origin of which name is however obscure. 
These calves on being slaughtered have been found to be hermaphro- 
dites." 
I have seen a peahen that, after it had ceased laying, grew à pair of 
spurs. Darwin says: *It is well known that a large number of female 
birds, such as fowls, various pheasants, SPD c ipee ducks, ete., 
When old or diseased, or when operated on, partly assume the secondary 
male character of their species." “A duck ten n years ola has ee known 
to assume both the perfect winter and summer plumage of the drake." 
“Waterton mentions the case of a hen that bod ceased laying, and had 
assumed the plumage, voice, spurs, and warlike disposition of the cock; 
thus every character of the — pu st have lain dormant in this itn as 
long as pid ovaria continued to 
The reindeer and caraboo are eie only two species of the genus Cer- 





