492 NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 
tween the white.” These specimens are in the possession of Joseph W. 
Drexel, Esq., of Philadelphia, who also has an example a Ground 
Squirrel, or Fence-mouse, as it is commonly called, which is, pe the ex- 
ception of the stripes on the back, entirely white; the stripes are pale 
brownish or yellowish. 
I trapped a snow-white specimen of the common rat, and also tained 
another one from my friend, fe jaa RSS ate of co but 
these, I suppose, are not uncommon. — HERMAN STRECKER. 
MIGRATIONS OF Brrps.— Do our migrating birds aa follow the 
same route in their annual migrations? I think they do, uniformly, un- 
less thrown out of their course by great stress of weather. 1n the fall of 
1863, one morning I noticed a large flock of robins (Turdus pase 
excavating the earth and lining it with, hydraulic cement. This tank H 
filled with water and swamp muck at the bottom, in which are growing 
the white Pond-lily (Nymphea odorata), the leaves of which make @ 
charming place for the birds SAA and drink. Among the robins I 
noticed a fine Albino. He, h his pagnons du voyage, remained in 
my yard about half an ioni sababaan dianti, and eating the berries of 
April came, ne morning my wife exclaimed, “Oh! what a large 
flock of robins!” I replied, “Look for my Albino,” when my ears were 
greeted with ‘‘Yes, here he is, the same bird.” He had some markings 
and myself as before, made the same request to m 
him, and if he came again, and I was gone, to report to TT 
land. Fall came, and with it my dear little Albino. Thus fo 
sive seasons this Albino came and went. Does not this es 
settle the question? Whether he ever came again I do not kno 
ARLICK, oo 0. 
e dis- 
ion of the fossil 
b 
a palpable error. The older naturalists were exceedingly fon 
ject of the unicorn, and the modern have made great efforts to ide 
or wild bull of Palestine, now extinct. — Land and Water. 
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