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On the other hand there are not lacking cases of equally 
important value in such introduction. Among such is that of the 
India ‘‘ Meina brought to the Island of Mauritius and proved 
effectual in exterminating the locust pest which had become intol- 
etabley (Ci: Imseet ite, V ol) TH, ‘pi s44s) 
Later reports concerning this bird do not seem to confirm 
the anticipation entertained concerning it. (Cf. Report U. S. 
Dept. Agr., 1899, p. 290.) 
All in all, there seems little doubt as to the fact that the con- 
sesus of scientific opinion points unmistakably to the high eco- 
nomic importance of birds from almost every point of view. 
Both observation and somewhat extended experience con- 
spire to suggest extreme caution as to introduction of foreign 
birds, or other faunal factors. 
It is not beyond reasonable expectation that continued agi- 
tation and distribution of reliable information may do much 
toward the protection of our avifauna from the cruel rapacity of 
thoughtless sportsmen and pot-hunters, and from the heartless 
vanity of a barbarous fashion. 
THE GEOLOGY OF THE SERPENTINES OF CENTRAL 
NEW YORK. 
Puitiep F. SCHNEIDER. 
APRIL, 18, 1902. 
Igneous rocks in the horizontally stratified Paleozoic beds of 
Central New York are too rare to pass unrecorded; and when, 
recently, excavations in Syracuse for the Butternut street trunk 
sewer disclosed another of these occurrences in a new locality and 
at so great a depth that ordinary excavations had not reached it 
because of the thickness of the overlying drift, it became impor- 
tant that some permanent and available record should be made of 
the same. 
The eruptive rock was first noticed April 16, 1901, some 
three days after it was penetrated. At this point, a short dis- 
