370 ZOOLOGY. 
with subterranean galleries, having several outlets. It has a large 
head, full lustrous black eyes, teeth exceedingly sharp and well set. 
Ears round and one-fourth of an inch long, tail two inches long, 
clavate and tufted with short, stiff hair ; feet long, five fingers, body 
well formed with muscular arms and thighs.—G. Lincecum, Long 
Point, Texas. — Communicated by the Smithsonian Institution. 
A New Biro to Tue Unrrep Srates. An esteemed correspond- 
ent, Lieutenant Charles Bendire, U. S. Army, stationed at Tucson, 
Arizona, writes to me concerning an owl of the genus Glaucidium 
which he procured in that locality. It differs, be says, from Cas- 
sin’s description of G. gnoma as follows: —‘‘ The tail-feathers, 
which are brown, are distinctly barred with fulvous, or rather ru- 
fous, fading into white at the edges of the inner webs. The feathers 
of the head are ashy-brown with very narrow longitudinal stripes 
of white. The quills of the wing are brown, their outer webs with 
small triangular spots of pale rufous, the inner webs with larger 
spots of the same shape, ashy white fading to pure white on the 
edges.” He was thoughtful enough to enclose some of the char- 
acteristic feathers, and on my showing them to Mr. Ridgway, now 
our highest authority on American birds of prey, he pronounced 
them to be those of Glaucidium ferrugineum, a form not hitherto 
found within our limits. — ELLIOTT Coues. 
Tue Nest, Eces, AnD Breepinc HABITS OF HARPORHYNCHUS 
cRISSALIS. In a later communication, containing much novel and 
interesting information upon the birds of southern Arizona, Lieu- 
tenant Bendire furnishes a most excellent biography of this sP& 
cies, which I lose no time in making public, since nothing of "e 
cial consequence has hitherto been recorded. Although the bird 
is still extremely rare in collections, Lieutenant Bendire took no 
less than six nests with eggs during the fourth week of March me 
“The nest,” he writes, “ is externally composed of dry nie a 
some of which are fully a quarter of an inch thick; “= lining 
consists exclusively of dry rotten fibres of a species of wild hemp, 
_ or Asclepias ; in none of the nests did I find any roots, leaves +e 
hair. The inner diameter of the nest is about three inches, er 
a depth of about two inches. Taking it all together, it 15 
very artistically constructed. None of the nests were mar p 
three feet from the ground. In two cases I found nests 1n ad 
bushy thicket of wild currant, twice again in willow bushes, 
