54 General Notes. - [January, 
WILD GEESE NeEstinG IN TREEs.—While in Greeley, Colorado, 
last summer, Mr. Louis Wyatt told me that he had seen wild 
geese nesting in large cottonwood trees on Snake River, a branch 
of the Yampah or Bear River, west of the Rocky Mountain range, 
in Colorado, at a point bearing a little north of west of Greeley, 
Colorado. This is the only instance published, I believe, of this 
habit as observed in Colorado. Dr. Coues, in his “Birds of the 
Northwest,” states that it “nests in various parts of the Upper 
Missouri and Yellowstone regions zx trees.’ —A. S. Packard, Fr. 
RATE OF GROWTH OF THE BARNACLE.—Upon taking up, Nov. 
17, a post to which my boat was moored, and which was put down 
at low-water mark April 5th, 1877, in Salem harbor, I found 
numerous barnacles (Balanus balanoides) living and of nearly full 
size, being four-tenths of an inch in diameter and about two-tenths 
high. With them were small Fucus vesiculosus, the largest one 
of which was about three inches in length. The post was a new 
one and had not been used the year previous. A number of sim- 
-ilar observations will be found in Darwin’s work on barnacles.— 
A. S. Packard; Fr. 
ANTHROPOLOGY. 
THE ARCHÆOLOGY OF THE PaciFic Coast.—The Rev. Stephen 
Bowers has just completed an archzological exploration along the 
Pacific Slope for Major J. W. Powell, who is in charge of the Sur- 
vey of the Rocky Mountain Region. During the six months 
of his labors, Mr. Bowers examined one hundred and fifty miles 
of the southern coast of California, and the inland country drained 
by the three streams, Santa Ifiez River, Sisquoc River, and Cuyama 
River. He also visited San Miguel and Santa Cruz Islands, hav- _ 
ing previously explored Santa Rosa Island for the Smithsonian 
Institution. The results of his last and most important expedition 
are between five and six tons of antiquities. 
The collections obtained consist of the following objects: — 
Ollas of crystalized talc; zortia or millstones of the same ma- — 
terial; arrow-smoothers of the same material; mortars and pestles 
of sandstone (some of the latter finely wrought and over two feet 
= in length); cups of serpentine; pipes of indurated talc and other — 
= material; charms or amulets of talc, etc.; perforated discs of ser- _ 
-~ pentine, sandstone, etc.; spear-points and arrow-heads; knives of 
-= chert; vast quantities of shell ornaments, and beads, in great va- 
- they would be too bulky for use. 
