38 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 
ZOOLOGY 
The Zoologist has continued the investigation of reptile and 
amphibian life histories and the study of the very extensive spider 
fauna of the State, the latter project having been inaugurated sev- 
eral years ago as a joint undertaking with Prof. C. R. Crosby of 
Cornell University. 
Field work carried on in the regions about Mount Marcy in the 
Adirondacks, near Stamford in Delaware county and in the Helder- 
berg mountains, Albany county, has resulted in the collection of 
valuable data and materials relating to the particular problems under 
investigation. In January 1922, 10 days were spent at Ithaca study- 
ing the extensive spider collection of the department of entomology 
at Cornell University. 
Two new bird groups designed to show the nesting habits of the 
rose-breasted grosbeak and the scarlet tanager were prepared by 
Joseph A. Santens of Buffalo and installed in Zoology Hall and the 
collection of mounted fishes further supplemented by the addition 
of about twenty specimens not heretofore represented in the exhibit 
series. Several of the older groups, including those of the wolf and 
mink, were completely dismantled and remodeled along more effec- 
tive lines. 
The amount of available space left in the Zoology Hall for addi- 
tional exhibits is very limited. Much floor room is taken up by 
capacious habitat groups and it has been necessary to resort to special 
and very shallow wall cases in order to take advantage of utilizable 
space. Under existing limitations it 1s hopeless for this division of 
the Museum to attempt any more large habitat groups of birds and 
mammals. It may be remarked, however, that such groups are to 
be found in all museums; that they are in many ways of the con- 
ventional museum type of exhibit and it would seem to be a better 
policy for this division to undertake the production of small groups 
of the lesser and more inconspicuous members of our fauna, such as 
the small mammals, reptiles, batrachians, etc. These are animals 
which are seldom to be found on exhibition and in which there is 
none the less a widespread interest. 
INR ClaliOIOXGAC /AINID IB MEUNOILOG AL 
The principal line of research of this division is to discover and to 
record all the facts concerning the archeology and ethnology of the 
New York aborigines resulting from field and museum activities. 
