"West Va. May 1874" 183 ings than obtaining her consent they performed the sexual act; in many as before described, the clam mote I cannot distinguish from that of nonboreensis; it may be a trifle fuller & less sharp; in all thin motion i habits they are identical, though indiviidians seems more fond of rocky streams while the other (though I suppose most of them are migrants here) is found on the muddy margin of Gonor Creek. Among some high oaks found a Mel ether, and provided him merely when he took to a high dead tree top and kept so pertinacing on the opposite side from her that after walking around it some twenty minutes or more I was fain to give him up & so left him there. R. D. confirms my observation on the way of N. varivonus; he heard numbers to day & others it as I did to that of Spij. Poicallis. Some of the Sains an very picturesqu: The water burns in all the streams though cold & good, shows a peculiar light thique indigo blue color & clear great in roots 6 ft. deep it is quite opaque & the bottom undistin- guishable; Many of the forest trees are commencing to leaf out; I notice one very entirely new to me indeed the only familiar ones on the