Nov. 1906] PROCEEDINGS S. 1. ASs'n ARTS AND SCIENCES. 87 



Staten Island. 



The Sharp-tailed sparrow breeds here, but Nelson's sparrow is only 

 a bird of passage in this region. 



Mr. Chapin also exhibited a skin of a R2t.ccoon, Procyon lotor (Linn.) 

 Storer, shot by some boys on April 20th, last, near Silver Lake. The 

 fur was in excellent condition, without any indications that the ani- 

 mal had been in captivity. 



Mr. John Rader presented a fragment of a gray granite bowlder, 

 obtained from an excavation at the corner of Clinton and Van Duzer 

 Streets, Tompkinsville, and a sample of fine sandy clay, containing 

 mica, from drift deposits encountered in an excavation on Richmond 

 Terrace near Westervelt Avenue, New Brighton. 



RECENT LITERATURE RELATING TO STATEN ISLAND. 



L "Observations on the Occurrence of Boott's Fern." Philip 

 Dowell. Torreya, vol. vi, 1906, pp. 205-209. 



In this contribution the author gives, in considerable detail, an 

 account of his personal observations on the distribution of Dryopteris 

 Boottii (Tuckerm.) Underw., with incidental references to the allied 

 species or varieties associated with it, D. cr-istata (L.) A. Gray, D. 

 spinulosa (Retz.) Kuntze, D. Clintoniana (D. C. Eaton), D. Goldieana 

 (Hook.) A. Gray, Z). inte^-media (Muhl.) A. Gray, and D. marginalis 

 (L.) A. Gray, with comments on the subject of hybridity. Several 

 Staten Island localities for the ferns are described, with notes on the 

 accompanying vegetation, etc. — A. H. 



II. "Perch Lake Mounds, with Notes on other New York Mounds, 

 and Some Accounts of Indian Trails." William M. Beauchamp, 

 Bull. N. Y. Stale Mus. No. 87. Pamph., pp. 82, pis. 1-12. Albany. 



1905. 



This contribution, although dealing primarily with Indian mounds 

 in the vicinity of Perch Lake, JefTerson Co., N. Y.,also contains many 

 references to mounds and trails in other parts of the State. 



In the "Addenda," on p. 50, is a brief reference to a communication 

 from our fellow member, Mr. Alanson Skinner, relating to his finds of 

 implements and other aboriginal relics on Staten Island, and on pp. 51, 

 52 is a list of the village and camp sites of the Island abstracted from 

 Mr. Skinner's paper in the Proceedings of the Natural Science Associa- 

 tio?i of Staten Island for April 11, 1903. — A. H. 



The meeting then adjourned. 



