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a or Ants. — On the 17th of June, 1866, I eco that the 
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running about at random as if hunting for food, but scart in a path a 
inches wide, which extended from the door into a neighboring yard. 
of the ants appeared to have unusually large heads, but on closer ex- 
tion it appeared that each carried another ant in her jaws. Ifa pair 
ithose of every ant they met. When they had recognized each other by 
$ means of peunication, they clasped their jaws together, and raised 
e to it, so as to hang entirely free from the earth. In this posi- 
tion they were carried with very little dificnlty, being entirely out of the 
of the limbs of their carriers. Tracing the line of march I found it 
tended to the door-step of a neighbor, some twenty yards off, passing 
mder a gate and over a step four inches high, and through several yards 
ing in the opposite direction, were al 
i handed. This aay nsportation continued for ten days, excepting 
o garain. The larvæ and pupæ were eee last. After the pisii 
[Mr. E. enon informs us that this is the hones fusca Linn. —Eps.] 
: Is me Crow 4 Brrp or Prey?—In the summer of 1866, while out on a 
trip with my friends, Messrs. Gill and Smith, about a mile from 
e sawa crow (Corvus Americanus of Audubon) pounce down 
an after the manner of a hawk, on a brood of young chick- 
= Carry one of them off. The act seemed strange to us at the time, 
although we knew that a great part of this bird’s food, at this season, 
"d of the eggs and young of _ birds, yet we had never heard 
capturing its prey in this man C of our ornithologists 
me whether this s is a common els with this bird or not?— 
Pa. 
I), a IN Birps.—You can add to the list of Albino birds (page 
8 Reed-bira, his near Philadelphia; the entire plumage is white, 
r Shen feet ‘Date rawek Also, a Robin; this is an instance of 
Dr. E. Cou ues; that is, “the entire plumage is checkered or 
over with white, the normal colors showing in the spaces be- 
