568 NOTES ON 8OME OF THE 
by cutting a slice of some green stem, when the sap is in 
the wood. and it is therefore the more readily cut, and also 
taking a slice of some Endogen, the garden asparagus being 
an excellent plant for that purpose, and after placing them 
on a glass “slide” and moistening them with water, covering 
them with a piece of thin " covering glass," and then exam- 
ining them with a mieroscope; even an ordinary pocket lens 
will, often show these points of structure very well. Thus 
will the student of nature find instruction and amusement, 
knowledge and pastime, even in a shaving of wood cast off 
. from a carpenter’s jack-plane. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 10. 
Fig. 1. Section of oak wood cut transversely across the grain. 
Fig. 2. Transverse section E sugar cane. 
Both magnified 25 diameter. 

NOTES ON SOME OF THE RARER BIRDS OF 
MASSACHUSETTS. 
BY J. A. ALLEN. 
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acus. Aquila chrysaétos Linn. (A. Canadensis 
auct.) A specimen was killed near Munson in November, 
1864, and another - near Deerfield, December 14th, 1865. 
The rn x hee is BH to have weighed thirteen and a 
half p la: T - 

seven “feet and six inches 

in ala - ek T It is noir me Springfield Museum of 
Natural History : Mr. J: G. Scott informs me that two speci- 
S wer eat Westfield three years ago, one of 





