REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR AND STATE CEOLOGIST 



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BIRDS 



Donations 



Mrs W. W. Byington, Albany N. Y.: Mounted group of loons 

 and sandpipers, St Lawrence river. 



Miss Annah Arms Cheney, Glens Falls N. Y.: Tine siskin 

 S pin u 6 pi ii u s (Wils.), Glens Falls N. Y. 



Miss Bridget Dempsey, Albany N. Y.: American osprey Pan- 

 dion h a 1 i a e t u s carolinensis (Gmel.), Albany N. Y. 



Collections 



M. S. Farr: Screech owl Megascops asio (Linn.); Balti- 

 more oriole I c t e r u s g a 1 b n 1 a (Linn.), in. and v.; phoebe 

 S ;i y o r a i s p h o e b e (Lath.), f. ; wood pewee Contopua 

 v i r e n s (Linn,), m. ; Ovenbird Seiuras aurocapillus 

 (Linn.), m.; American redstart Setophaga ruticilla 

 (Linn.), 2 m., 1 f.; chestnnt-sided warbler Dendroica 

 p e nsy 1 v a n i c a (Linn.), m. and f.; white-breasted nuthatch 

 S i 1 1 a canadensis (Lin.), m. and f., Kenwood, Albany, N. Y. 



Purchases 



George W. Cornell, South Cambridge N. Y. : American bittern 

 Botanrns lentignosus (Montag.), South Cambridge. 



BIRDS' EGGS 

 Donations 



M. S. Farr: sets robin Merula migratoria (Linn.); 

 8 sets catbird Galeoscoptes carolinensis (Linn.) ; 

 2 sets brown thrasher IT a r p o r h y n c h u s r u f u s (Linn.) ; 

 2 sets kingbird Tyrannus tyrannus (Linn.); 1 set dove 

 Z <> n a i d u r a niacroura (Linn.) ; 1 set wood thrush H y 1 o- 

 c i c h 1 a m u s t e 1 i n a (Gmel) ; 2 sets grass finch Pooecetes 

 g r a in i n e n s (Gmel.) ; 1 set crow Corvus americanus 

 Aud. ; 1 set house sparrow Passer domesticus (Linn.) ; 17 

 sets red-winged blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus (Linn.), 

 Cranbury N. J. Singles of the following species: 25 house spar- 



