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viduals may continue to molt in the spring, while others of the same 
species cease to do so. 
V. The remiges are molted less frequently than any other part of the 
plumage. Asa rule, they are only renewed at the annual molt (ex- 
ception Dolichonyx). : 
VI. Variability in the order of molt in the remiges and presence or 
absence of molt in the flight feathers at the end of the first summer are 
generally family characters, i. e., Ceryie differs from any other species 
treated of in this paper in the order of molt in the primaries. All 
Picidæ and all Icteridæ, except Icterus (and Dolichonyx ?), molt the 
flight feathers with the rest of the first plumage. None of the Oscines 
except Icteride (as above), some (all?) Hirundinidx, Olocoris and 
Cardinalis molt the flight feathers at this time. 
Mr. Stone’s conclusions as to “ color-change without moulting ” are 
the same as those reached by Chapman, in his article on “ The Changes 
ot Plumage in the Dunlin and Sanderling,” namely : that color-change 
without molt or abrasion is incapable of taking place from the very 
nature of the structure of a feather, and that all the cases so reported 
can be otherwise acconnted for. (Proceeds. Acad. Nat. Sciences, 
Phila., 1896.) 
The Florida Deer.—The fact that the Florida deer is but little 
more than half the size of the deer of northeastern United States, to- 
gether with certain cranial and dental peculiarities, is sufficient, accord- 
ing to Mr. Outram Bangs, to give it full specific rank. He therefore 
describes it under the name Cariacus osceola. The most striking differ- 
ences between the Florida animal and its northern relatives are (1) the 
shape and size of the nasal and maxillary bones, and (2) the very large 
molar and premolar teeth. (Proceeds. Biol. Soc. a iaa Vol. X, 
1896.) 
ENTOMOLOGY." 
Professor Forbes’ Eighth Report.—The nineteenth report 
from the office of the State Entomologist of Illinois, covering the 
years 1893-4, has recently been issued. It is the eight report of the 
present incumbent, Professor S. A. Forbes, and adheres closely to the 
lines of thorough and accurate record, which have made its seven pre- 
decessors notable in the literature of economic entomology. The bulk 
! Edited by Clarence M. Weed, New Hampshire College, Durham, N. H. 
