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Another is a view of a meadow, tliickly covered with daisies, in 

 which the nests were found. 



A barred owl, Stri.v varia varia, in the first moments of its flight 

 from a hollow tree, is depicted on p. 56. 



The cover illustration for the May-June number is a picture 

 of a spotted sandpiper, and the same picture is repeated on p. 

 107, and a bobolink, perched and in the act of singing, is the 

 subject of an illustration on p. no. All of the illustrations are 

 reproductions of photographs taken by ]\Ir. Cleaves in the vicinity 

 of Prince's Bay. 



On the Affinities of the Genus Yezonia^- 



In this article the author discusses two genera of fossil plants 

 described by Stopes and Fugii from the Cretaceous of Japan 

 {Yezonia and Cryptonieriopsis. Philos. Trans. Roy. Soc. London 

 201B: 1-90. pi. i-g. 1910). It may appear to be wandering 

 rather far afield to connect Japan with Staten Island, but the 

 author contends, and apparently with every fact in his favor, that 

 the supposed new genus Yezonia is identical with Brachyphyllum, 

 utilizing sections of B. iiiacrocarpuin Newb., from the Kreischer- 

 ville clays, for purposes of comparison. Similarly, the genus 

 Cryptomeriopsis is regarded as identic3.\ with Gcinitcia (Sequoia) 

 Reichenbachi (Gein.) Hollick & Jeffrey, from the same deposits 

 (Mem. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3: 38. 1909, reviewed in Proc. Staten 

 I. Assoc. 2: 205. 1909). It is certainly interesting to realize 

 that specimens collected in Japan, carried to England, and de- 

 scribed there as new to science, are generically and perhaps 

 specifically identical with specimens previously collected and de- 

 scribed from Staten Island. 



A. H. 



"Edward C. Jefifrey. Annals Bot. 24: 767-773. pi 63. O 1910. 



