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jaws were long and curved.- At the extremity of the lower jaw 
was a large, curved process that shut into a cavity in the roof of © 
the mouth. There was, indeed, between the two sexes as greata 
difference as there is between the male and female of our common 
domestic fowls. Yet in June there was so little difference that 
only a practised eye could distinguish the male from the female 
salmon. The fishermen who had been handling them all their lives 
had never observed the difference. hs 
During the process of spawning and after its completion both 
sexes continue to fall away in flesh and soon the colors begin to : 
fade. At the end of a month the process on the lower jawi 
found to have decreased in size. Two females and one male taken : 
from the water on the 23d of November, thirteen days after the 
completion of the spawning, were forwarded to the Peabody Acad 
men, a male, that was put, early in July, i 
two hundred acres in Bucksport, and running into @ ih 
November, was taken thence after ten days. This was the finest 
specimen seen, a strong, stout-built fish thirty-four inches Jong anil : 
weighing eleven and a half pounds. His colors were Unus i 
deep, perhaps in consequence of the deep reddish color of oe 
water, through which nothing could be seen at the depth of three 
"G. A: 
feet. — 
Ax OrsrmoLocicar Brunper.—Having submitted the a 
“ Bonasa Jobsii” (Jaycox; “Cornell Era,” IV, 182) 19 BE 
thologist, requesting him to pass upon it, we are favored W A 
following reply : — “ Newspaper science is rarely worth p 
attention, but as the ‘Era, a publication of an institutiot 
learning, notices a supposed new species of bird which, it aP. 
is named by the President of the University, although ihe 
by another gentleman, I suppose the article must be Tete 
to the extent at least of blaming it for introducing ê ae 
nym of the ruffed grouse. It is such a complet coil 
_ same time is written with such ingenuousness, that I ie 
what you ask and spare the writer’s feelings too. I a : 
not one of the ‘striking differences’ that Mr. Jaycox 
sufficient to characterize a new species and perhaps # new ally 
are of the slightest consequence. Bonasa umbellus p 
eighteen tail feathers, but is also found with sixteen, 35 | 
