el gl el aoe) BSS se Oey ee Pe El ree Pe Be 
biel es eih ri ate its eos be le f 
1878.] Anthropology. 821 
As the common black snake, B. constrictor, is not, to my know- 
ledge, among the number sgh accredited with a propensity 
for cold victuals, an account o ack snake’s dinner whic 
recently came under my observation may pe of some interest to 
those EE oie incline 
could see undue of the dead snake left there the day previous, 
I immediately suspected the one inside his constrictorship to be 
ing the garter snake this proved to be the 
head and body. ‘The length of the black snake was a little short 
of three and a half feet, and that of his dinner, twenty-two 
inches.—/, W. Cragin. 
KUNK EATEN BY TURKEY-BUZZARDS.—Some years ago, while 
residing in Chester county, Penna., having set a steel-trap fora 
ground-hog (Maryland marmot), I found a large skunk caught by 
a leg. Though a very unwelcome prize, there seemed no alterna- 
tive “but to kill it, which was done. This was about 8 o’clock in 
the morning; immediately a number of turkey-buzzards com- 
menced their usual gyrations over the dead body, and by 10 
o'clock nothing remained of the unsavory animal but its well 
piskad skeleton.— William Kite. 
ANTHROPOLOGY .! 
A VESSEL OF GLAZED POTTERY TAKEN FROM A TUMULUS IN 
FrLortpa.—The_ peculiar, egg-shaped vessel surmounted with 
bulbous-shaped mouth, a description of which is here given, 
was found, associated with some much-decayed human bones, 
and a single arrow soniye chipped Se reddish flint, in a burial 
mound near the south shore of Santa Fe Lake, Florida. The 
color of this Gagne piece of sit is a dull shade of buff or 
drab. It is formed of yellowish clay, like that found in the neigh- 
borhood, perhaps mingled with marl; but without any admixture 
of crushed stone or shells being used in its construction. Its 
height is eleven paleo and its “greatest exterior diameter 8.40 
inches. It weighs six pounds, and holds over one gallon of 
liquid, or exactly four and one-third quarts, being perfectly water 
tight. Its base is too rounded to permit of its standing without 
support. The peculiarity of its construction is that it is built 
spirally from the bottom upward with one continuous cylinder or 
rope of clay, giving the vessel a ribbed or corrugated surface ; 
there being twenty-four rounds or circuits of the cylinder. The 
entire inside is glazed with a decided but somewhat thin 
„glazing of a pale yellowish tint. The bulbous-shaped mouth is | 
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