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2517. Male adult. Sing Sing, N. Y. July 1, 1886; noon. Dr. A. K. Fisher. 
Animal matter, 65 per cent.; vegetable, 33; gravel, etc., 2. Stomach well 
filled. 
Contents. — Seven cherry stones (like those in No. 2516), and bits of skins and 
other debris of fruit; about a dozen seeds of Ruhus, apparently the red 
raspberry {R. strigosus) ; large quantity of insect remains, one or two in- 
sects nearly entire ; a very small amount of sand. 
2518. Male adult. Sing Sing, N. Y. July 1, 1886 ; 1 p. m. Dr. A. K. Fisher. 
Animal matter, 70 per cent.; vegetable, 30 ; gravel, etc., 0. Stomach full. 
Contents. — Nineteen cherry stones (like those in No. 2516) ; a few bits of fruit 
skins and vegetable fiber ; a very large amount of insect remains; four 
, small vertebrae of small, tailed batrachian, perhaps a salamander (iden- 
tified by F. A. Lucas). 
2519. Male adult. Sing Sing, N. Y. July 2, 1886; 10.30 a. m. Dr. A. K. Fisher. 
Animal matter, 60 per cent.; vegetable, 40 ; gravel, etc., 0. Stomach well 
filled. 
Contents. — Six cherry stones (like those in No. 2516), and a very little other 
vegetable matter ; bones and flesh of a small bullfrog (identified by F. A. 
Lucas). No trace of insects or gravel. 
2520. Female adult. Sing Sing, N. Y. July 2, 1886; Ip. m. Dr. A. K. Fisher. 
Animal matter, 50 per cent.; vegetable, 50; gravel, etc., 0. Stomach little 
distended. 
Contents. — Five stones of cherry (like those in No. 2516); remains of insects ; 
no gravel. 
2521. Female adult. Sing Sing, N. Y. July 2, 1886; 1.30 p. m. Dr. A. K. Fisher. 
Animal matter, 60 per cent.; vegetable, 40; gravel, etc., 0. Stomach nearly 
empty. 
Contents. — One cherry stone (like those found in No. 2516), and a single frag- 
ment of some other fruit stones ; insect remains ; no gravel. 
2522. Female adult. Sing Sing, N. Y. July 2, 1886; 2.30 p. m. Dr. A. K. Fisher. 
Animal matter, 33 per cent.; vegetable, 65; gravel, etc., 2. Stomach well 
filled. 
Contents. — Four cherries, whole or nearly so, and stones of twelve more (like 
those in No. 2516), with a very little other vegetable matter; bones of a 
frog, forming about four-fifths of the animal matter, the remainder being 
fragments of insects ; a single pebble and a very little sand. 
2678. Young. Nigger Pond, Ramapo Mountains, N. J. July 4, 1886; 5 p. m. F. 
M. Chapman. 
Animal matter, 10 per cent.; vegetable, 90; gravel, etc., 0. Stomach nearly 
empty. 
Contents. — A few pieces of acorns, peas, or kernels of corn ; three or four small 
berries, probably of the heath family, perhaps blueberries {Vaccinium) ; 
two or three pieces of animal matter, possibly bits of marine worms : two 
or three bones of small fish ; no sand or gravel. 
2679. Young. Nigger Pond, Ramapo Mountains, New Jersey. July 4, 1886; 5 p. 
m. F. M. Chapman. 
Animal matter, 3 per cent.; vegetable, 97; gravel, etc., 0. Stomach about 
half full. 
Contents. — Numerous fragments of the flesh of some nut, fruit or grain, not 
determined, perhaps of acorn, as there are many fragments of shell re- 
sembling that of an acorn ; 2 pistils of flowers nearly an inch long ; a few 
bones of small fish ; no trace of insects or gravel. 
2866. Male adult (?). Peterborough, Madison county, N. Y. July 14, 1886. G. S. 
Miller, Jr. 
Animal matter, 60 per cent.; vegetable, 30; gravel, etc., 4; indeterminate, 6. 
Stomach well filled. 
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