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to respectfully suggest the following ornithological titles for his 



Thackeray, W. M. Adventures of Timothy Titmarsh (Parus 

 palustris). 



Husband, A. Letter to his Little Duck (Anas) of a Wife 

 (sjwnsa), enquiring whether the Baby is still a Creeper (Certhia). 

 [N. B. If Dr. Giebel should be in doubt under which one of his 

 xxxiii headings this title should come, he might put it under 

 "Propagatio" or under "Monographs of Families."] 



Policeman, A. On the Jayl-birds (Garrulus) and Gutter-snipes 

 (Scolopax gutturalis) of the metropolis ; or, how to go on a Lark 

 (Alauda). 



Giebel, C. G. Ornithological evidences of Lunacy (Loon-icy, 

 Golymbusglacialis). 



The European Cabbage Butterfly probably made its appear- 

 ance in the neighborhood of Cleavelaud, Ohio, during the season 

 of 1873, but its ravages did not attract special attention till the 

 summer of 1874, when many thousands of dollars were lost by 

 the wholesale destruction of cabbages and cauliflowers in this 

 section. We have also received notice of similar devastation 

 among these plants in Western Pennsylvania (1874), probably 

 caused by the larvae of this same insect pest. Fortu 

 vegetable gardeners, however, the active European p 



ml, and scarcely less than ninety per 



e of the 



i or less completely filled 

 with individuals of the bronzen ichneumon-fly known as Pteromalv.s 

 puparum, either in the larval or pupa state. — T. B. Cojistock. 



The Lark Bunting. — While with the Yellowstone Expedition 

 of 1873, under Gen. Stanley, I collected some material, amongst 

 which was a nest of the Lark bunting, Calamospiza bicolor 

 Bonap.), containing three eggs of the same, with one parasitic 

 egg, which I have every reason to believe was that of the Crow 



. bird ( Mointhrus ,„,■,„•/* Suain-i,). 



with the eggs of this 



the Lark bunting sen 



abated 

 to settle. 



Tally found at the head-waters 

 of the various streams running either into the Heart or Big 

 Knife Rivers, in fact so close to the springs that in main places 

 the ground was moist. The nests which I found were generally 

 under or amongst tufts of grass, or other shrubs of a stunted 



