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author believes that from them the eyes have developed, so that 
he regards them as incipient eye-spots. 
Some Norges on Birp Micrations.—The City of Chicago is 
perhaps not the most favorable locality for observing the phe- 
re on the same area. “ Here,” thought I, “ is the favorite home 
of the jays, where they can get the protection of the evergreens, 
Which the native forest denies, and breed undisturbed ;” for shoot- 
ing and birds-nesting are forbidden on that sacred ground. 
For two weeks after my first visit the number of jays appeared 
undiminished, but as soon as signs of returning warmth were more 
“Pparent, I noticed a decided diminution in their ranks, till by the 
first of May not more than two or three pairs were left; and in- 
deed it may be questioned whether these were not new-comers 
Pected before, that the jays,as well as others of our so-called 
resident ” species, are, to some extent, migratory, only within nar- 
rowerlimits than the great mass of birds. - It would appear that the 
thic Evergreen trees and the immunity from disturbance acted as 
an attraction to induce the jays to seek this place to pass the win- 
ter, so that they were collected here in far greater numbers than 
Would ordinarily be found on any other corresponding area. It 
may be that at the approach of the breeding season they simply 
that €r themselves over the adjacent country, but as the land in 
Gp cee Sa, 
: = Probable that they go north to the more heavily timbered 
s. 
on 
on April 17th, while visiting this cemetery and some other 
Suburban fields, my attention was attracted by the great number 
" Solden-winged woodpeckers or flickers, everywhere to be 
