﻿Additions 
  to 
  the 
  State 
  Museum. 
  19 
  

  

  Specimens 
  of 
  Teredo 
  navalis 
  Linn., 
  taken 
  alive 
  from 
  the 
  tim- 
  

   bers 
  of 
  the 
  U. 
  S. 
  frigate 
  Congress, 
  sunk 
  by 
  the 
  Merrimac 
  in 
  

   Hampton 
  Roads 
  ; 
  also 
  a 
  polished 
  section 
  of 
  the 
  perforated 
  

   timber. 
  From 
  Wm. 
  J. 
  McAlpine, 
  Albany, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  

  

  A 
  cat 
  having 
  the 
  fore-legs 
  only 
  — 
  a 
  year 
  old 
  at 
  its 
  death. 
  The 
  

   skeleton 
  added 
  to 
  the 
  Museum 
  collection. 
  From 
  William 
  

   W. 
  Dueeee, 
  Grloversville, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  

  

  A 
  hoary 
  bat 
  — 
  Vespertilio 
  pruinosus 
  Say. 
  From 
  Veeplanck 
  

   Colvin, 
  Albany, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  

  

  A 
  pine 
  grosbeak 
  — 
  Pinicola 
  enucleator 
  (Linn.), 
  from 
  flocks 
  

   feeding 
  on 
  the 
  berries 
  of 
  the 
  mountain 
  ash 
  {Pyrus 
  Amer- 
  

   icana)^ 
  during 
  November 
  and 
  December, 
  in 
  New 
  Scotland, 
  

   Albany 
  county, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  From 
  John 
  S. 
  Moak, 
  New 
  Scot- 
  

   land. 
  

  

  An 
  entozoon 
  from 
  a 
  cat. 
  From 
  Chaeles 
  Devol, 
  M. 
  D., 
  Al- 
  

   bany, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  

  

  A 
  photograph 
  of 
  a 
  muskalonge 
  — 
  Esox 
  estor 
  (Linn.), 
  taken 
  

   July 
  2, 
  1869, 
  in 
  the 
  St. 
  Lawrence 
  river, 
  near 
  Clayton, 
  N.Y., 
  

   of 
  the 
  length 
  of 
  4 
  feet 
  7£ 
  inches, 
  and 
  circumference 
  of 
  25J 
  

   inches. 
  From 
  Elisha 
  W. 
  Hopkins, 
  Little 
  Falls, 
  N. 
  Y.* 
  

  

  Tusks, 
  6} 
  inches 
  in 
  length, 
  of 
  a 
  domestic 
  hog 
  — 
  Sus 
  scrofa 
  

   Linn., 
  ? 
  , 
  killed 
  at 
  Cohoes, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  From 
  F. 
  A. 
  Clute, 
  

  

  Schenectady, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  

  

  A 
  piece 
  of 
  a 
  bone, 
  two 
  inches 
  in 
  diameter, 
  imbedded 
  in 
  the 
  

   trunk 
  of 
  a 
  hemlock 
  tree, 
  near 
  its 
  center, 
  two 
  feet 
  below 
  a 
  

   branch, 
  and 
  forty-five 
  feet 
  from 
  the 
  ground, 
  the 
  trunk 
  at 
  the 
  

   point 
  having 
  a 
  diameter 
  of 
  twenty 
  inches. 
  Chittendon, 
  Vt. 
  

   From 
  Heney 
  Spawn, 
  Albany, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  

  

  Skull, 
  feet 
  and 
  leg 
  bones, 
  vertebrae 
  and 
  ribs, 
  and 
  skin 
  of 
  a 
  

   Peccary. 
  Lower 
  jaw 
  bones 
  of 
  a 
  large 
  Wolf. 
  Skull 
  of 
  a 
  

   Bear. 
  Two 
  skulls 
  of 
  Racoons. 
  Opossum 
  skull 
  (not 
  com- 
  

   plete). 
  Skeleton 
  of 
  a 
  large 
  Crane. 
  Carapace 
  and 
  plastron 
  

   of 
  a 
  Turtle. 
  Teeth 
  and 
  bones 
  of 
  various 
  animals. 
  Fishes, 
  

  

  * 
  Another 
  muskalonge 
  captured 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Hopkins 
  at 
  the 
  same 
  locality, 
  meas- 
  

   ured 
  4 
  feet 
  11-J- 
  inches 
  in 
  length, 
  27 
  inches 
  in 
  circumference, 
  and 
  weighed 
  42£ 
  

   pounds. 
  

  

  