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  Twenty-eighth 
  Eepoet 
  on 
  the 
  State 
  Museum. 
  

  

  taceans 
  in 
  the 
  case 
  of 
  Invertebrata 
  ; 
  also 
  groups 
  of 
  individuals 
  

   attached 
  to 
  sea- 
  weeds, 
  with 
  their 
  filamentary 
  appendages 
  finely 
  

   shown. 
  

  

  The 
  annual 
  appropriation 
  for 
  the 
  special 
  increase 
  of 
  the 
  

   Zoological 
  collection, 
  which 
  we 
  received 
  for 
  several 
  years, 
  hav- 
  

   ing 
  been 
  withheld 
  the 
  past 
  year, 
  I 
  am 
  unable 
  to 
  report 
  any 
  

   extensive 
  additions 
  to 
  the 
  skeletons 
  of 
  the 
  New 
  York 
  Yerte- 
  

   brata. 
  Some 
  preparations 
  of 
  the 
  foot-bones 
  of 
  Mammals 
  and 
  

   Birds 
  have 
  been 
  made 
  and 
  mounted 
  by 
  Dr. 
  J. 
  W. 
  Hall, 
  Assis- 
  

   ant 
  in 
  the 
  Museum, 
  and 
  placed 
  in 
  the 
  collection 
  ; 
  and 
  the 
  

   series 
  of 
  skulls 
  has 
  been 
  re-labeled. 
  

  

  An 
  addition, 
  of 
  some 
  interest, 
  to 
  the 
  stuffed 
  skins 
  of 
  the 
  

   New 
  York 
  Mammalia, 
  is 
  that 
  of 
  an 
  Albino 
  Mink, 
  which 
  was 
  

   killed 
  in 
  a 
  barn 
  near 
  G-reenbush, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  

  

  A 
  very 
  interesting 
  addition 
  to 
  the 
  collections 
  of 
  this 
  floor 
  

   is 
  a 
  specimen 
  of 
  the 
  Horse-Mackerel, 
  American 
  Tunny 
  (Orcy- 
  

   nus 
  secundi-dorsalis 
  Storer), 
  of 
  which 
  I 
  was 
  so 
  fortunate, 
  

   during 
  a 
  short 
  sojourn 
  on 
  the 
  sea-coast 
  last 
  summer, 
  as 
  to 
  pro- 
  

   cure 
  three 
  specimens 
  which 
  had 
  become 
  stranded 
  in 
  a 
  fish- 
  

   wier 
  in 
  Cape 
  Cod 
  Bay. 
  The 
  largest 
  of 
  these, 
  an 
  unusually 
  

   large 
  individual, 
  measuring 
  nine 
  feet 
  and 
  four 
  inches 
  in 
  length, 
  

   has 
  been 
  stuffed 
  and 
  mounted 
  by 
  Prof. 
  Ward 
  of 
  Rochester, 
  

   and 
  is 
  now 
  in 
  position 
  over 
  the 
  case 
  containing 
  the 
  alcoholic 
  

   collection 
  of 
  New 
  York 
  fishes.* 
  The 
  skeleton 
  of 
  another 
  is 
  in 
  

   course 
  of 
  preparation, 
  and 
  will 
  soon 
  be 
  received 
  at 
  the 
  Museum, 
  

   while 
  the 
  skin 
  of 
  the 
  third 
  specimen 
  is 
  in 
  preparation 
  by 
  Mr. 
  

   J. 
  Wallace, 
  of 
  New 
  York. 
  

  

  These 
  specimens 
  are 
  a 
  valuable 
  acquisition 
  to 
  the 
  collec- 
  

   tions. 
  The 
  estimated 
  weight 
  of 
  the 
  Museum 
  specimen 
  was 
  

   eight 
  hundred 
  pounds. 
  This 
  fish 
  is 
  known 
  on 
  the 
  American 
  

   coast 
  from 
  Newfoundland 
  to 
  Florida. 
  In 
  Massachusetts 
  Bay 
  

   it 
  is 
  called 
  Horse-Mackerel, 
  and 
  in 
  Rhode 
  Island 
  and 
  else- 
  

   where 
  it 
  is 
  known 
  as 
  Albicore 
  or 
  Albricore. 
  It 
  was 
  for 
  a 
  long 
  

   time 
  supposed 
  to 
  be 
  identical 
  with 
  the 
  Tunny 
  of 
  Europe 
  

   (Thynnus 
  vulgaris), 
  which 
  occurs 
  often 
  in 
  immense 
  numbers 
  

  

  * 
  It 
  has 
  since 
  been 
  removed 
  to 
  the 
  large 
  wall-case 
  containing 
  the 
  skeletons 
  of 
  

   Mammalia 
  and 
  the 
  larger 
  stuffed 
  Fishes. 
  

  

  