170 The American Naturalist. [ February, 
is called the west harbor, and about seventy-five on the east harbor, 
feeding on the fish offal thrown away by the fishermen. As the major- 
ity of these winter visitors lack the white on head and tail that char- 
acterizes the old birds it may be that they are birds that have not 
mated or built nests. 
The eagles at all times of the year subsist on fish, eating but little 
else. They take them alive from the water and dead from the shore, 
and here as well as on the Atlantic coast they occasionally take them 
from the osprey. When an eagle captures a live fish it is sometimes: 
pursued by another eagle which succeeds after a spirited struggle in 
getting it away. Among the farmers they are not considered beneficial 
nor very harmful, though they occasionally take tame ducks and, it is 
said, lambs. On Kelly’s Island and Put-in-Bay they are less numerous 
than formerly, but on the peninsula the number is increasing. 
—E. L. Mose.ey. 
The Paludicolæ.—Dr. Shufeldt offers the following scheme 
to show the divisions of the suborder, Paludicolæ, of the Uniteđ 
States : 
Suborder. Superfamilies. Families. Genera. 
( : Gruidae, Grus. 
Gruoidea Aramidae, Aramus. 
rae 
i | Cre 
Paludicolae < P 
| Ralloidae Rallidae) Yono aes ana. 
| Gallin ula. 
4 Fulica. 
In regard to the connection of the Paludicolae with other avaim 
groups, the author notes that the Jacanidae link this suborder with the 
Limicolae, through certain species in the Plover-Sandpiper line; Pod- 
ica and Heliornis lead towards the Pygopodes; and such ancestral 
types as Chionis connect them with the Longipennes ; by various links 
they are connected also with the Herodiones, through Rhinochetus and. 
Eurypyga. 
Professor Fiirbringer believes that the Apteryges are far more closely 
related to the Rallidae than has been, heretofore, realized. If this be 
true, it forms a line toward the Struthious types—with all the Gallinae 
likewise only a little more remotely related. (Proceeds. Zool. Soc- 
London, March, 1894.) 
