162 TRANSACTIONS OF SCIENTIFIC SECTION. 



Bucephala albeola — dipper: butter-ball. 



One specimen. 

 Harelda glacialis — "old wife : " long-tailed duck. 



One specimen. 

 Mergus merganser— shell-drake : goosander. 



Two specimens. 



Order : Longipennes — long-winged swimmers. 



Family : Laridce — gulls. 



Hydrocheltdon lariformis (fissipes) — black tern. 

 One specimen. 



There are in the museum, in addition to the above- 

 named, two specimens of "bitterns," four specimens of 

 "grebes," of the genus Pod iceps, and three specimens 

 of the genus Podilymbus, all found in this vicinity, 

 whose species have not yet been determined. 



From southern localities we have a srjecimen of the 

 "snake bird," "rosy-spoonbill," "great white egret," 

 and from the w T est there are specimens of " Calif ornia 

 quail," pinnated grouse, or, "prairie hen," and "ptar- 

 migans" in summer, fall, and winter plumage. 



APRIL 23, 18S4— TWENTY-SIXTH STATED MEETING. 



Prof. W. B. Pwight, chairman, presiding ; ten mem- 

 bers present. 



The chairman presented the following Annual Report : 



To the Members of the Scientific Section, Vassar 

 Brothers Institute : The scientific meetings of this Sec- 

 tion have been held with unbroken regularity during 

 the present season. As required by our by-laws, I will 

 make the following report of the work that has been 

 done. 



Dr. C. B. Warring gave the first paper, on the Gyro- 

 scope, to the most lively entertainment of all who lis- 



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