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  Report 
  on 
  the 
  New 
  York 
  State 
  Museum. 
  

  

  reservoirs 
  are 
  plentifully 
  stocked 
  with 
  the 
  species. 
  A 
  short 
  time 
  

   ago 
  an 
  individual 
  was 
  washed 
  out 
  of 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  fire-plugs 
  in 
  the 
  

   heart 
  of 
  the 
  city, 
  and 
  report 
  says 
  that 
  another 
  became 
  wedged 
  in 
  

   the 
  water-pipes 
  of 
  one 
  of 
  our 
  school-houses 
  and 
  had 
  to 
  be 
  cut 
  out 
  

   in 
  order 
  to 
  allow 
  the 
  water 
  to 
  flow. 
  

  

  As 
  the 
  Hudson 
  and 
  Delaware 
  Eivers 
  are 
  connected 
  by 
  a 
  cana^ 
  

   which 
  runs 
  from 
  Kingston 
  on 
  the 
  Hudson 
  to 
  Port 
  Jervis 
  on 
  the 
  

   Delaware 
  it 
  is 
  not 
  improbable 
  that 
  the 
  Mud-Puppy 
  will 
  at 
  some 
  

   future 
  time 
  be 
  found 
  in 
  the 
  Delaware. 
  

  

  At 
  present 
  no 
  record 
  of 
  its 
  occurrence 
  in 
  the 
  Delaware 
  is 
  known 
  

   to 
  me, 
  and 
  probably 
  it 
  has 
  never 
  yet 
  been 
  found 
  in 
  that 
  river. 
  

   At 
  least 
  no 
  mention, 
  of 
  the 
  species 
  is 
  made 
  in 
  Dr. 
  C. 
  C. 
  Abbot's 
  

   Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Vertebrates 
  of 
  New 
  Jersey, 
  published 
  in 
  1868 
  

   nor 
  in 
  Julius 
  Kelson's 
  revision 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  catalogue, 
  published 
  

   in 
  1890. 
  

  

  The 
  presence 
  of 
  the 
  species 
  in 
  the 
  Hudson 
  and 
  its 
  tributaries 
  is 
  

   worthy 
  of 
  note, 
  as 
  it 
  is 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  very 
  few 
  instances 
  in 
  which 
  we 
  

   have 
  apparently 
  good 
  evidence 
  that 
  the 
  habitat 
  of 
  an 
  aquatic 
  

   animal 
  has 
  been 
  unintentionally 
  enlarged 
  through 
  human 
  agency. 
  

  

  ¥M. 
  B. 
  MARSHALL, 
  

  

  Albany, 
  JV. 
  T. 
  

  

  