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NATUKAL SCIENCE NEWS. 



Family VIREONID/E. — Vireos. 



624. Red-eyed Vireo. Vireo o/iv a ceus. Common summer resident. 

 Breeds. 



626. Philadelphia Vireo. Vireo phifadelphicus. Occasional migrant 

 and may possibly breed. 



627. Warbling Vireo. Vireo gilvus. Common summer resident. 

 Breeds. 



628. Yellow-throated Vireo. Vireo fl a vifrons. Summer resident 

 and breeds. Not very common. 



629. Blue-headed Vireo. Vireo solitarius. A rare migrant. 



Family MNIOTILLID/E. — Wood- warblers. 



Mniotilta v&ria. 



636. Black, and White Warbler. 

 ally seen in the spring. 



639. Worm-eating Warbler. Helmitht 

 al migrant and possibly breeds. 



641. Blue-winged Warbler. 

 reports securing a female July 21 



:rus vertnivoru 



Migrant, usu- 

 Occasion- 



and lies in a regular strata, is very 

 easily quarried and cut, and as- 

 sumes a magnificent polish. In 

 color it varies from the red or rose 

 colored stone of which the State 

 capitol is constructed, to a light 

 gray, with various intermediate 

 shades. Granite has been taken 

 from this mountain for the capitol 

 building and dam at Austin, the 

 jetty works at Galveston Harbor 

 and mouth of Brazos River, and 

 the government building at Kansas 

 City, without having any percep- 

 tible effect upon its appearance. 

 >At a distance it looks as if it had 

 never been touched. — Waif red 

 Wilson i?i Scientific American. 



Helminthophila pin us. Mr. Davison 

 1889. An occasional migrant. 

 642. Golden-winged Warbler. Helminthophila chrysoptera. Sum- 

 mer resident and breeds. Have found it nesting at Chili and it is re- 

 ported as breeding at Medina and Naples. 



645. Nashville Warbler. Helminthophila ruficapilla- Common 

 migrant and rare summer resident. Breeds. 



647. Tennessee Warbler. Helminthophila peregrina. Occasional 

 migrant and rare summer resident. Breeds. 



648. Parula Warbler. Compsothlypis ctmericanus. Rare summer 

 resident and breeds. 



650. Cape May Warbler. Dendroica tigrina. Rare migrant. 

 652. Yellow Warbler. Dendroic astiva. Abundant summer res- 

 dent and breeds. 



654. Black-throated Blue Warbler. Dendroica carulescens. 

 Common migrant. 



655. Myrtle Warbler. Dendroica coronata. Common migrant. 



657. Magnolia Warbler. Dendroica maculosa. Common migrant 

 and rare resident. Breeds. 



658. Cerulean Warbler. Dendroic ccerulea- Summer resident 

 and breeds. Not very common. 



656. Chestnut-sided Warbler. Dendroica pennsylvan>ca. Sum- 

 mer resident and breeds. Not very common. 



660. Bay-breasted Warbler. Dendroica castanea. Migrant in 

 flocks. This and the next species sometimes swarm in places where 

 feed is plenty. 



661. Black-polled Warbler. Dendroica striata. Common mi- 

 grant with the last. 



662. Blackburnian Warbler. Dendroica blackbiwnice. Common 

 migrant. Said by Langille to be resident in Tonawanda Swamp, Or- 

 leans Co., through the summer. 



667. Black-throated Green Warbler. Dendroica virens. Com- 

 mon migrant. Mr. Davison reports finding a young one unable to fly 

 on June 24, 1883. Probably a very rare breeder. 



671. Pine Warbler. Dendroica vigorsii. Mr. Davison reports it 

 a very rare migrant. I have never seen one taken in this vicinity. 



672. Palm Warbler. Dendroica palmarum- Rare migrant. 



674. Ovenbird. Seiurus aurocapillus. Summer resident and breeds. 



675. Water-Thrush. Seiurus noveboracencis. Summer resident. 

 Breeds. Not common. 



677. Kentucky Warbler. Geothlypis formosa. Shot one in May, 

 1894. Mr. Davison reports seeing a male on May 21, 1891 



Geothlypis agilis. Rare migrant, 

 after the first edition of this list had 



678. Connecticut Warbler. 

 Saw one in August, 1893, just 

 gone to press. 



679. Mourning Warbler. Geothlypis Philadelphia- 

 ported by Neil F. Posson as a summer resident. 



681. Maryland Yellow-throat. Geothlypis trichas 

 ident and breeds. 



Migrant. Re- 

 Summer res- 



Biggest of Big Trees. 



The largest tree in the State of 

 California, or on the American con- 

 tinent, perhaps, is "Old Sequoia," 

 the titan of all the redwood giants, 

 which stands at an altitude of 5,- 

 300 feet above sea level, at a dis- 

 tance of seventeen miles from the 

 Yosemite. Valley. At present the 

 "Old Sequoia" is but a blackened 

 stump, but as it stands it is with- 

 out doubt the oldest representative 

 of tha vegetable kingdom in the 

 world. At one time, before fire 

 and wind partially destroyed the 

 grove of "big trees" of which it 

 was the chief, "Old Sequoia" was 

 more than 100 yards high and 

 ward of fifty feet in diameter, 

 present the "stump" is 185 

 high and about forty-one feet in 

 diameter near its charred and black- 

 ened roots. Quite a "stump" af- 

 ter all. — St. Louis Republic 



Live Bookworms. 



up- 

 At 

 feet 



Mr. Austin, an assistant librarian 

 in the Cornell library, while cata- 

 loguing the fine Dante collection 

 presented to the University by 

 Prof. Willard Fiske, has found 

 some live bookworms in an edition 

 of the "Divine Comedy," bearing 

 the date 11 36. This is the third 

 time only that these insects have 

 been found in an American library. 

 Prof. Comstock, of the entomolog- 

 ical department has succeeded in 

 raising from the 'insects a number 

 of eggs, worms and beetles for the 

 University museum. — New York 

 Mercurx. 



The largest sponge ever sent to 

 market was from the Mediterra- 

 nean. It was ten feet in circum- 

 ference and three in diameter. 



