24 TWENTY-SEVENTH REPORT ON THE STATE MUSEUM. 



Two Night-hawks (OJiordeiles popetue Baird). From John 

 Bratt, West Point. N. Y. 



Two eggs, of the first sixteen laid by a very large bramah hen, 

 showing the range of size.; the smallest (round in shape), 

 .65 inch in diameter, the largest, .8 inch and 1 inch in 

 its diameters. From D. F. N. Parker, Versailles, N. Y. 



Palatal bone of . From E. Labischiner, Albany. 



N. Y. 



Whip sting-Ray {Pastinaca haslata De Kay), and two small 

 blue Sharks {Qarcharias cceruleus De Kay). Purchased. 



Part of the skull and upper jaw of a Whale (Balosnoptera, 

 sp.), with five vertebrae (two of which are imper- 

 fect), two ribs and a fragment of a third, right humerus 

 and radius ; also, a vertebra, probably of another indi- 

 vidual. Balize, Louisiana. From Thomas W. Olcott, 

 Albany, N. Y. 



Section of cedar trunk burrowed by ants. Hair-ball from 

 stomach of a hog. From Moses Eames, Watertown, 

 N. Y. 



Three mounted Buffaloes (Bos Americanus Grmel.), bull, cow 

 and calf. Skeleton of a bull Buffalo. Purchased. 



Carapace of Armadillo, from "west coast of Africa." From 

 Robert Brookhouse, Salem, Mass. (Contributed to the 

 State Cabinet prior to 1866, but not hitherto recorded.) 



Parasite on brook-trout (Salmo fontinalis), from Moose river, 

 N. Y. From Verplanck Colvin, Albany, N. Y. 



Two skulls of black hear (Ursus Americanus Pall.). Nos, 



41, 42. Skeleton (imperfect) of an Alligator (Orooodilus 

 • lucius). No. 65, E. I. 

 Vertebrae of a seal. No. 65, E. II. 

 Whale cap. No. 65, E. III. 

 Miscellaneous recent bones, thirty or forty specimens. No. 65, 



E. IV. 

 Tertiary (North Carolina ?)■ fossil bones. No. 65, E. V. 

 Mastodon remains from the locality of the "Warren Mastodon, 



Orange county, N. Y. ; two sternal bones ; five foot bones, 



four vertebrae, two ribs. No. 65, E. VI. 



