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382. NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 







i: ANT. — According to Wesmael, a » Belgian naturalist, 
discharge into receptacles. This is the Myrmecocystus Mexicanus, Or ko 
migas EY or mochileras, i. e. honey-ants, or ponchot i 
Mexica 
fon n ; 
iaisisiko rax): “This singular apparatus is furnished i xa 
ular orifice at the aie lateral angles, fr i 
fluid doubtless exudes. V ay, therefore, reasonably conclude 
insect elaborates a suitable and necessary aliment for the nourish 
of the young brood.” A species of ‘‘Honey-ant” is also found in a 
THE GOLDEN-WINGED WOODPEC 
illustrating well one of the piedi Poania of the oar 
Woodpecker (Colaptes ere has just occurred under my 20 
pair of these birds commenced yog about the first week in igi 
1. a [ removed 
the pea refully twice a weck, leaving ewe sm: the nest each 
have thus arbera thirty-three eggs, thirty-one of which & 
tg the other two (the last) having been hatched during my 
Their ordinary number, as every one knows, is only six. Th 
most extensive case of the kind I have ever known. Can any of 
ers of the Naturatisr surpass it?— W. K. Kenzie, Lansing, , Mich. 
HABITS or THE Evepuant.—In Ceylon, the Elephant seeks! 
of thick forests at the rising of the sun, in which he rests 
sks to assist him 
oadd; pie thirty tiie high, and ne richer portion of the 
fined to the crown; thus the elephant, not Pepi able Bede's re 
traordinary ; and I have seen trees uprooted of so large 
convinced no single elephant could have overturned t 
ured four feet six inches in circumference, aN 
elephants. —Baxer’s Albert Nyanza. 
