CONTENTS 



I. Announcement, 1 



II. List of the Coleoptera Observed and Collected in the Vicinity of 



Buffalo. By Frank H. Zesch and Ottomar Reinecke, . 2 



III. On Certain Fossils of the Water- Lime Croup near Buffalo. By 



Julius Pohlman, ... 17 



IV. Notes on the Imitative and Ventriloquial Power of Birds. By E. 



E. Fish, 23 



V. New Coleoptera. By John L. Le Conte, M. D. , . . .27 



-* VI. Observations and Notes. — Eudryas unio ; Smerinthus modesta ; 

 Hylesinus trifolii ; Cossus Kobinise ; Papilio Thoas ; Tyreus 

 Abbotii ; Cypripedium acaule. By David S. Kellicott, . 39 



VII. On the Domestication of Some of our Wild Ducks. By Charles 



Linden, 33 



VIII. Additional Notes on the Fauna of the Water-Lime Group near 



Buffalo. By Julius Pohlman, . 41 



IX. Notes on the Larvae of some Local Pterophoridse. By David 



S. Kellicott, 47 



X. A. New Tortricid. By C. H. Fernald 53 



XL Additional List of Coleoptera. By Ottomar Reinecke, . .55 



XII. Notes on the Spongillse of Buffalo. By Henry Mills, . . 57 



