12 Thirty-first Report on the State Museum, 



II. ZOOLOGICAL. 

 A Field-mouse. From Andrew M. Bender, Adamsville, N. Y. 



A Woodchuck — Arctomys monax (Liim.). From Seth E. Parsons, Albany, 



N. Y. 



A New York Ermine (Putorius Noveboracensis). From John H. Burns, 

 Cedar Hill, N. Y. 



A Northern Tree-toad — Hyla versicolor Le Conte, taken at Center, N. Y., 

 feeding on the sugar-bait spread on pine trees for Lepidoptera. From W. 

 W. Hill, Albany, N. Y. 



A large slug — Tebennophorus sp ? from a cellar of a house in Albany. 



From W. W. Hill, Albany N. Y. 



A Pickerel — Esox reticulatus Le Sueur, 45 inches long, weighing 19 pounds, 

 taken on Friend's Lake, Chester, Warren Co., by Mrs. H. A. Ferguson of 

 Troy, N. Y. From Mrs. Ferguson. 



A fish from Banda Sia ; a Snake, known as " Kutonki " by the natives. Sunda 

 Dio, Java. Four examples of Medusae, from the North Pacific Ocean. 

 From Howard Treadwell, Albany, N. Y. 



A scarlet Tanager — Pyranga ruber (Linn.) — shot in Bainbridge, N. Y., Aug. 

 13th. From G-. A. Dodge. 



A humming-bird — Trochdus colubris (Linn.). From S. Birch, Albany, N. Y. 



A red-tailed Buzzard — Buteo borealis (Gm.) Vieill — of 50 inches expanse of 

 wings. From E. E. Wands, New Scotland, N. Y. 



A Butcher-bird — Colluris borealis (Vieill) Bd. — said to have killed a number 

 of pigeons. From Miss Amelia Hartmann, Watervhet, N. Y. 



A hen's egg of abnormal form. From John O'Hare, Albany. 



An egg of very elongate form from a black Spanish hen. From Wm. J. 

 Boss, Albany, N. Y. 



An egg-yolk of solid consistence and sublaminate structure, and entirely 

 destitute of an albuminous envelope ; dropped in this condition by a white 

 Leghorn hen. From Wm. P. Buell, Jr., Albany, N. Y. 



A case containing Vespa diaboliea, Halictus ligatus, Pelopoeus cosruleus, 

 Ceratina dupla, and other Hymenoptera. (About 50 species in 74 exam- 

 ples.) 



Twelve specimens of Hymenoptera (nine species), viz. : 



Apis mellifica Linn., 5 , £ , p ; Megachile femorata Say ; Andrena 

 vicina (Smith ; Pompilus fatrox Dahlb. ; Vespa crabo Linn., Kings Co., 

 N. Y. ; Sphex Pennsylvania Linn. ; Sphex ichneumonea F., Fishers' 

 Island, N. Y. ; Mdissodes pruinosa Say ; Melissodes binotata Say, 6 , $ . 



Vertebral joint, detached spinal process and two epiphyses of a fin-back Whale, 

 stranded at Fisher's Island in 1870. From Rev. J. L. Zabriskie, 

 New Baltimore, N. Y. 



