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rary, in Boston, where for several days they were seen, in excellent 

 condition, busily searching the walls, window seats, etc., for eggs and 

 larva3 of insects. 



Dr. Brewer read extracts from papers of Mr. McCullocli, Dr. Bry- 

 ant and Mr. J. A. Allen, confirmatory of his own observations as to 

 the terrestrial habits, at times, of the Red-poll Warbler. Alone of all 

 Dendroicce^ so far as is known, it breeds on the ground. At other 

 times this warbler shows that it can be, when the occasion offers, an 

 expert fly-catcher. Dr. Samuel Cabot, who has frequently observed 

 the Red-poll in the spring, in Massachusetts, among the birch trees, 

 was unaware of its terrestrial proficiencies, but has only noticed it 

 feeding on flies among the tree-tops. When seeking its food on the 

 ground its motion is graceful, easy and natural, demonstrating that it 

 is natural to the bird, and not the prompting of necessity. 



Mr. S. H. Scudcler placed upon the blackboard a tabular 

 sketch of the various localities in which insects had been 

 found in a fossil state both in Europe and this country, re- 

 ferrino- them to their geological horizons ; in connection Avith 

 it he gave an account of the various fossil insects hitherto 

 discovered in America. 



He exhibited specimens of the fossil larva fi-om the Connecticut 

 River sandstone, which Professor Hitchcock had considered a neurop- 

 terous insect, and had named Mormolucoides articulatus. The speci- 

 mens were from the cabinet of the Society, and that of Prof O. C. 

 Marsh of New Haven. Although they differed from Professor Hitch- 

 cock's illustrations, Mr. Scudder believed them to be the same animal, 

 and probably larv« of Coleoptera. 



Mr. T. T. Bouve, who had seen the originals of Hitchcock and many 

 similar specimens, agreed with Mr. Scudder in referring these remains 

 to the same species. 



The Corresponding Secretary read the following letters 

 which had been received since the last announcement : — 



From the Portland Society of Natural History, February 4th, 1867 ; 

 Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, Copenhagen, March 31st, 

 1866; Academy of Sciences of Chicago, January 1st, 1867; Ly- 

 ceum of Natural History, New York, February 11th, 1867 ; Regents 

 of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, February 15th, 186 7 ; K. 

 Hof- und Staats-Bibliothek, Munich, November 28th, 1866, acknowl- 

 edging the receipt of the Society's publications. From the Societe 

 de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Geneve, October 15tli, 18G6, 



