676 General Notes. [June 
way describes a new warbler from the island of Santa Lucia, W. I, 
a supposed new plover from Chili, and defines anew the genus — 
Tantalus and its allies. Mr. L. Belding catalogues a collection — 
of birds made along the western coast of Lower California—— 
Observations on four mules in milk, by Professor A. Duges, of 
Guanajuato, Mex., are translated in the Proceedings of the United 
States National Museum. Although observations relative to the 
milk given by animals which have not passed through the state 
of gestation are few, still a number have been recorded, including 
some human beings. A mule in milk was observed by Dugès 
near Guanajuato. The animal had never given birth to offspring, 
nor had ever been served by an ass or horse. The mamma. 
which issued with much force and fell foaming into the vessel pre- 
pared to received it.” Dugès also records three other s “a 
cases._—lIn a paper in the same Proceedings on the birds of the 
tion of the writer, of all sounds issuing from animal beings. , 
“red monkey” (Ateles melanochir) is quite numerous, and ato 
largest in size of Costa Rican quadrumana. The most abu : 
kind, however, is the white-faced money ( Cebus hypoleucus). ; T 
were often quite annoying from their habit of throwing dis. 
nuts, etc., at the traveler passing below them. p 
covered the place where I took my morning bath, a 
noying in this particular that I appreciated as never 
thetic story of the ‘ Boys and the Frogs,’ and had a 
them in pure self-defense. But I felt like a murderer fortor 
found the flesh of the “ watousa” (Dasyprocta crist p 
the opinion of the writer, the most delicious meat he ever 
pleasure of eating.” 
before the p. 
General—Zodlogy in Spanish America :'—The perusal Ot J 
Resúmen del Curso de Zoologia, given at the Conte stirring | 
of Caracas, leaves the impression that there is some little st 
of the intellectual waters in that direction. i 
The classification adopted, albeit the “Estruciones o ho 
are intercalated between the Gallinæ and Palmipedes, af out 
the arrangement of both fishes and batrachians is some 
of date, is better than some to be found nearer home. 
1 Resúmen del Curso de Zodlogia, leido en la Universidad Central. Por. As" a 
Caracas, 1882. Pe 
