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2517. Male adult Sing Sing, N. Y. July 1, 1886 ; noon. Dr. A. K. Fisher. 

 Animal matter, 65 per cent; vegetable, 33; gravel, etc., 2. Stomach well 



filled. 



Contents. Seven cherry stones (like those in No. 2516), and bits of skins and 

 other debris of fruit; about a dozen seeds of Rubua, apparently the red 

 raspberry ( R. strigosus) ; large quantity of insect remains, one or two in- 

 sects nearly entire ; a very small amount of sand. 



2518. Male adult Sing Sing, N. Y. July 1, 1886 ; 1 p. m. Dr. A. K. Fisher. 

 Animal matter, 70 per cent; vegetable, 30 ; gravel, etc., 0. Stomach full. 

 Contents. Nineteen cherry stones (like those in No. 2516) ; a few bits of fruit 



skins and vegetable fiber ; a very large amount of insect remains ; four 

 small vertebrae of small, tailed batrachian, perhaps a salamander (iden- 

 tified by F. A. Lucas). 



2519. Male adult Sing Sing, N. Y. July 2, 1886 ; .10.30 a. m. Dr. A. K. Fisher. 

 Animal matter, 60 per cent; vegetable, 40 ; gravel, etc., 0. Stomach well 



filled. 



Contents. Six cherry stones (like those in No. 2516), and a very little other 

 vegetable matter ; bones and flesh of a small bullfrog (identified by F. A. 

 Lucas). No trace of insects or gravel. 



2520. Female adult Sing Sing, N. Y. July 2, 1886 ; 1 p. m. Dr. A. K. Fisher. 



Animal matter, 50 per cent; vegetable, 50; gravel, etc., 0. Stomach little 

 distended. 



Contents. Five stones of cherry (like those in No. 2516); remains of insects; 

 no gravel. 



2521. Female adult Sing Sing, N. Y. July 2, 1886 ; 1.30 p. m. Dr. A. K. Fisher. 

 Animal matter, 60 per cent; vegetable, 40; gravel, etc., 0. Stomach nearly 



empty. 



Contents. One cherry stone (like those found in No. 2516), and a single frag- 

 ment of some other fruit stones ; insect remains ; no gravel. 



2522. Female adult Sing Sing, N. Y. July 2, 1886; 2.30 p. m. Dr. A. K. Fisher. 

 Animal matter, 33 per cent; vegetable, 65; gravel, etc., 2. Stomach well 



filled. 



Contents. Four cherries, whole or nearly so, and stones of twelve more (like 

 those in No. 2516), with a very little other vegetable matter; bones of a 

 frog, forming about four-fifths of the animal matter, the remainder being 

 fragments of insects ; a single pebble and a very little sand. 



2678. Young. Nigger Pond, Ramapo Mountains, N. J. July 4, 1886; 5 p. m. F. 



M. Chapman. 

 Animal matter, 10 per cent; vegetable, 90; gravel, etc., 0. Stomach nearly 



empty. 

 Contents. A few pieces of acorns, peas, or kernels of corn ; three or four small 



berries, probably of the heath family, perhaps blueberries ( Vaccinium) ; 



two or three pieces of animal matter, possibly bits of marine worms: two 



or three bones of small fish ; no sand or gravel. 



2679. Young. Nigger Pond, Ramapo Mountains, New Jersey. July 4, 1886 ; 5 p. 



rn. F. M. Chapman. 



Animal matter, 3 per cent; vegetable, 97; gravel, etc., 0. Stomach about 

 half full. 



Contents. Numerous fragments of the flesh of some nut, fruit or grain, not 

 determined, perhaps of acorn, as there are many fragments of shell re- 

 sembling that of an acorn ; 2 pistils of flowers nearly an inch long ; a few 

 bones of small fish ; no trace of insects or gravel. 



2866. Male adult (?). Peterborough, Madison county, N. Y. July 14, 1886. G. S. 

 Miller, Jr. 



Animal matter, 60 per cent; vegetable, 30; gravel, etc., 4; indeterminate, 6. 

 Stomach well filled. 



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