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Our experience with a pair which were domesticated in my labora- 
tory for a month, agrees with his, so far as regards the water; 
when offered it was either refused or merely tasted. Of milk, 
however, they were very fond, and drank from the same dish with 
a cat, lapping it up greedily and seldom stopping while any milk 
remained; in less than fifteen minutes, however, a looseness of 
the bowels always appeared, which continued for a day or two. In 
uttering their peculiar cry, they seemed to stiffen the whole trunk 
and “rear” into a very comical attitude. Curiously enough, they 
not only burrowed, but were vigorous climbers, would run up my 
legs and get upon my shoulders and even head; but they seemed | 
to have little power of estimating height, for they continually 
tumbled from the chairs and tables, often striking upon the tip of 
the nose, whereupon they made comical passes in front of the nose 
with the front-paws ; one of them finally was killed by falling from 
a window, to the seat of which he had climbed by means of a 
table-leg. The other has been described, and I may hereafter give 
some account of its structure. — Burt G. WILDER. 
ORNITHOLOGICAL Query. — I have seen a partially albino 
Robin, in which numerous pure white feathers are scattered through 
the otherwise normally colored plumage. This is of very common 
occurrence, but the circumstances under which the specimen was 
secured open an interesting question. It was one of a flock in 
which were several partial albinos like itself, and one wholly white 
bird. Is it probable that, as suggested by Mr. Glover, these 
speckled birds were the offspring of the white one and a normally 
colored mate ?— Exirorr Coues. 
Birds Founp BREEDING IN THE CATSKILL Mountains. — During 
a visit to the Catskill mountains, in the second week of July, 
I found the following birds breeding there:— Regulus satrapa, 
Dendreca coronata, Sitta Canadensis, Troglodytes hyemalis, Junco 
hyemalis, Dendræca virens, D. Canadensis. The last four birds 
are common throughout summer in all the higher hills of Ulster 
and Sullivan counties, and the mountains of Pennsylvania. The 
golden-crested wren, I noticed only on the summits of Round Top, 
and one or two others of the highest peaks. On the eighth of 
July, {| saw several young birds, apparently not many days from 
the nest. They, were attended by their parents, and hid them- 
selves from observation, amid the densest hemlock boughs. At 
