Staten Island” or ‘‘The Staten Island 
Assoeiation ef Arts and Scienees.’’ 
The report was accepted and discus- 
sed and the latter name was approved 
and adopted as the name to be incorpor- 
ated in the preposed new charter. 
Mr. Wm. T. Davis exhibited mounted 
Specimens of scrub oak and black-jack 
oak and their supposed hybrid, (Quer- 
sus Bxittout Davis) and read the follew- 
ing paper: 
A NEW STATION FOR THE HYBRID OAK, 
QUERCUS BRITTONI DAVIS. 
In these Proceedings for September, 
1892, an oak supposed to be a hybrid 
between the scrub oak (Quercus nana 
(Marsh.) Sarg.) and the black-jack oak 
(Quercus Marylandica Muench.) was de- 
seribed under the name of Quercus Brit- 
font. The trees from which the speci- 
mens were gathered grew at Watch- 
ogue, but were destroyed by fire a few 
years after their discovery. 
During the past summer I was fortu- 
nate in finding an example of what ap- 
pears to be this same hybrid growing 
near Lewer Jamesburg, Middlesex 
Co., N. J., near the side of the road 
leading to Matehaponix. The tree is 
about fifteen feet high, has a single 
trunk with smooth bark and lighter 
colored folige than the black-jack oak. 
In viewing the tree its mixed character 
is quite obvious, and upon a nearer ap- 
proach the leaves are found to be rusty 
pubescent beneath, the pubescence be- 
ing more generally spread oyer the 
surface than im Marylandica, though 
not so close as the white down in ama. 
Both the scrub oak and the black-jack 
oak grow at the Jamesburg locality, 
and near the tree described. 
Mr. Jas. Chapin exhibited a mounted 
specimen of snow bunting(Plectrophenax 
nivalis Linn.) shot near Four Corners, 
and read the following memorandum: 
SNOW BUNTINGS ON STATEN ISLAND: 
The snow bunting, while common in 
winter farther north than Staten Island, 
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rarely comes here, except in very cold 
weather, They were seen by Dr. Hol- 
lick on Fort Hill in the winter of 1872-3 
and by Mr. Wm... T. Davis on February 
26th, 1892, at Todt Hill, and on Carey 
Avenue, West New Brighton, on Feb- 
ruary 22d, 1902. 
On December 31st, 1904, I saw a 
flock of about twenty. near the beach at 
New Dorp. They flew over the salt 
marsh and lit onthe sand. When they 
were running around in the weeds they 
allowed me to appreach quite near, but 
when the nearest bird became frighten- 
ed he flew up whistling and the others 
rose in abody. OnJanuary 14th there 
was a Similar flock in the same place. 
On February 11th I saw a flock of 
about thirty flying ever the salt marsh 
at New Dorp. 
On Febrwary 13th I went to Castleton 
Corners. In a field behind Eckstein’s 
brewery there was a flock of about 
seventy-five. They were eating the 
seeds of a weed and the waste grain 
from the brewery. These birds were 
shyer than those at New Dorp. When 
frightened they would all rise  to- 
gether, fly around overhead twittering, 
and then alight in another part of the 
field. I saw one sitting on the side of 
a stack of corn-stalks. I was told by 
a man working in the field that they 
eame there once last winter. Doubtless 
their unusually large number this win- 
ter is caused by the cold weather and 
heavy snow-fall. 
SPECIMENS EXHIBITED. 
Mr. Davis exhibited under the micro- 
scope specimens of biting lice (Vzrmus 
thoracicus Packard) found on the snow 
bunting exhibited by Mr. Chapin. 
After the adjournment of the meeting 
the newly elected trustees met and or- 
ganized by electing Howard R. Bayne, 
president; Arthur Hollick, secretary; 
J. Blake Hillyer, treasurer; and Char- 
les A. Ingalls, curator. 
