Hq. 40;] 17 



BIRDS. 



OEDER I. ACCIPITRES. 



FAMILY STRIGID^. 



ZooLo&T — Pait H. 



Bubo virginianus, Great-horned Owl p. 24 



Taken in the town of Stuyvesant, Columbia county (N.T.), in the 

 month of Noyember 1854, and presented to the State Ca,binet by 

 Aakon Van Allejs?. 



ORPER IV. GRALL^. 



FAMILY GRUID^. 



Ardea vibescens, The Qreen Heron (young male and female). . . . 224 

 Taken near the city of Albany, in the summer of 1854. 



Ardea biscors, Black-crowned Night-heron {iemaXo) 227 



Taken in the town of Guilderland, Albany county, in the summer 

 of 1854, and presented to the State Cabinet by Alexander C. 

 Grant of the city of Albany. 



ORDER VI. NATATORES. 



FAMILY LARID^. 



liARUs BGNAPARTii, Bonapartc^s Gull (male) , 311 



This specimen was taken in the town of Ne-w -Scotland, Albany 

 county, in the summer of 1854, and presented to the State Cabinet 

 by Samuel Dickson, M.D. 



FROM SAMUEL DICKSON, OF NEW-SCOTLAND, ALBANY COUNTY. 

 Bones of one of tfee Wings of the Albatross. 



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