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THE NATURALISTS' COMPANION. 
or three piii8 in them at the slioul- 
der joints. Alter the bird has been 
placed in the desired attitude it 
should l)e carefully wound around 
with a strip of cloth one-half inch 
Avide and sufficiently long: to wind 
tlie entire bird, and should renu\in 
on until the bird is entirely dry, 
thus holding the feathers in their 
natural position. Now if any 
readers do not understand this let 
them write us, inclosing a stamp, 
and we will endeavor to explain. 
'JO BE CONTINUED. 
THE OF GOLD. 
The question of the origin of na¬ 
tive gold always has been and is 
quite likely to remain a disjjuted 
question among geologists and min¬ 
eralogists. Prof. J. S. Newberry 
now contests the theory that the 
grains and nuggets founU in placers 
are formed by precipitation from 
chemical salution. He holds that 
geology teaches, in regard to the 
genesis and distribution of this 
precious metal, that it exists in the 
oldest known rocks, and has been 
thence distributed through all the 
strata derived from them; that in 
the metamorphosis of these dei’ived 
rocks it has been concentrated into 
segregated quartz veins by some 
process not yet understood; that is, 
it is a constiuitent of tissure veins of 
all geological ages, tvhere it has 
been deposited from hot chemical 
solutions, which have reached dee}»ly 
buried rocks of various kinds, gath¬ 
ering froni them gold with other 
metallic minerals, and that gold has 
been accumulated through mechan¬ 
ical agents in ])lacer deposits by the 
erosion of strata containini»' aurifer¬ 
ous veins. According to the re}>ort 
of Special Agent Clarence King, of 
the census, based n|)on ijiforniatiou 
directly Ironi the producers of bul¬ 
lion, a comparison of the aniuial 
output of different States shows 
that the United States produce 3o.13 
per cent, of the gold yield of the 
whole world, 50.51) per cent, of the 
silver, and 40.01 ])er cent, of the 
total. Of the aggregate supply of 
the precious metals. North America 
furnishes 55.78 per cent. 
COBllESFOJVDEJWE, 
TUib Culuuiu is o|u-ii f^e»^ to yearly siibsrribers only. 
To K. I). (t., New Sharon, la.— 
The Summer YellowbiiH, or Yel¬ 
low Warbler as it is commoidy call¬ 
ed, lays from four to five eggs of 
grayish-white ground color, spotted 
and* Idotched with brown. These 
spots, or rather blotches are quite 
thick at the larger end of the egg. 
The size ot the eggs average about 
.65x.50, Fresh sets of the egu's of 
this bird can be obtained irom May 
20th to June 15th. The nests are 
usually placed in young saplings, 
six to twelve feet trom the ground. 
We Avill give a more complete des¬ 
cription sometime in the near luture. 
J. A., Jr., Lake Yiew, Ill.— Will 
endeavor to answer your question 
in the Jiext number. 
Why are not our readers a little 
more inquisitive*'' We wish they 
were, as we wish to make this de¬ 
partment one of the features of our 
paper. 
Persons wishing a good collection | 
of CAiriositiiis should purchase of^ 
Bennett & Dean. i 
