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Maine, and do not find it noticed in any lists of birds given for 
Maine, to which I have access, except in one published by the 
Portland Society of Natural History. I do not know from that 
list who found the bird, or in what part of the state it occurred, 
The bird may be common in this state but it is new to me in this 
region.— C. H. FERNALD, 
MENOBRANCHUS EDIBLE. —Cayuga Lake (near Ithaca, central 
New York) abounds with the spotted Proteus, Menobranchus 
maculatus (perhaps a variety of M. lateralis, but never striped 
and always spotted). In preparing a paper upon their anatomy 
and embryology, Dr. W. S. Barnard and myself have occasion to 
use them in numbers; and a single fisherman, who sets many 
hooks for fish has brought us a hundred during the past month 
(March) ; he, and all others, apparently regard them as poisonous, 
and are rather averse to touching them ; so far is this from the 
case, that they are absolutely harmless in every way ; and on the . 
5th, Dr. Barnard and myself eat one which was cooked, and found 
it excellent; it is our intention to recommend it as food, but not 
until our investigations are concluded.— Burr G. WILDER. 
New CRUSTACEA OF THE SWEDISH JOSEPHINE EXPEDITION. — 
The Norwegian naturalist G. O. Sars, the son of the celebrated 
zoologist, Professor Michael Sars, has worked up the species of 
Cumacee found by the Josephine expedition. They are little 
shrimp-like Crustaceans, some of which were found at ge 
depths by the naturalists of the Swedish expedition which partice 
pated in the recent deep sea explorations with the dredge. AS 
some of the species new to science are from near the coast O - 
Long Island, the paper will be of interest to our American zool- - 
ogists. The work is done in the most thorough manner, with : 
admirably executed plates. It forms one of the memoirs of the - 
Swedish Academy. 
SPECIAL MODE or DEVELOPMENT OF CERTAIN BaTRAC 
In a letter printed in the “ Revue Scientifique,” No. 37, 
Jules Garnier communicates some remarkable observations als 
have been made by M. Baray on certain Hylodes which ¢ oa 
large numbers in the island of Guadaloupe. These animals the 
widely distributed over the island, being found not only neat” 
sea, but in the higher lands of the interior, and after rain pee 
croak makes the air resonant. The physical features of Gua" 
1873, Me 
