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Age, in relation to the transmission of characters in birds; variation in accordance with, in birds. Agelaeus phoeniceus. Ageronia feronia, noise produced by. Agrion, dimorphism in. Agrion Ramburii, sexes of. Agrionidae, difference in the sexes of. Agrotis exclamationis. Ague, tertian, dog suffering from. Ainos, hairiness of the. Aitchison, Mr., on sheep. Aithurus polytmus, young of.
Lowell says: "With them 2000 miles is common; while many exceed 2500; and the Eumenides-Orcus is 3540 miles from the point where it leaves Lucus Phoeniceus to where it enters the Trivium Charontis." This last canal is barely visible on our map, its commencement being indicated by the word Eumenides. The Trivium Charontis is situated just beyond the right-hand margin of our map.
I suggest the question to those whose business it is to be learned in such matters. Mr. Ridgway, in his Manual of North American Birds , had already described a subspecies of Florida redwings under the name of Agelaius phoeniceus bryanti. The tall grass about the borders of the island was alive with clapper rails.
When the prickly pear had made a golden garden of the prairie and the heart of Cereus phoeniceus was warm with the intention of lighting its gorgeous crimson torch on the divides; when the arroyo, but lately a pretty streamlet, had told wellnigh all its beads to the sun-god, and had but here and there in its parched length an isolated pool; when the flock at noon no longer flushed the last teal from the creek, because that lingering bird had finally winged its way toward Manitoba or some other favorite retreat northerly, at this time the constant wind, gentle but never-failing, and almost always from the south, was overweighted with a roar of multitudinous bleating and befouled with dust; for shearing was going on at the ranch.
Now, in some few cases, the two sexes of the same species appear to have been differently affected; in the Agelaeus phoeniceus the males have had their colours greatly intensified in the south; whereas with Cardinalis virginianus it is the females which have been thus affected; with Quiscalus major the females have been rendered extremely variable in tint, whilst the males remain nearly uniform.
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