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were not followed by any other sound while the bird was buzzing- these 

 80 times. 



Another interesting- fact which appeared to be evident is that the 

 bird did not seem to stand in the same place or position while buzzing. 

 Some sounds were indistinct, and it was plain that the woodcock kept 

 turning- first in one direction and then another. 



April 24. — At twenty-five minutes past seven p. m., I heard one 

 ■woodcock only, and it continued its song- for but a short time, and 

 then I heard no more. It seemed that the season of song- for the 

 woodcock was waning-, even as is the case with other birds when the 

 breeding- time comes on. 



April 27. — At five minutes to seven p. m., I heard one bird buzz 

 a few times, and then all was still, save for the woodfrogs and picker- 

 ings in adjoining ponds, and up to date (May 8) I have not heard 

 another woodcock. 



NOTES AND COMMENT. 



Mr. Alanson Skinner exhibited specimens of moccasins made by the 

 Seneca, Cayuga, Mohawk, Ojibway, Cree, and Sioux Indians, and 

 discussed their several peculiarities of shape, embroidery, etc. 



Mr. James Chapin exhibited skins of a young and an adult little 

 green heron, Ardea virescefis Linn., together with a nest, obtained from 

 the vicinity of Green Ridge. 



RECENT LITERATURE RELATING TO STATEN ISLAND. 



I. "Hybridization of Wild Plants." D. T. Mac Dougal. Bot. 

 Gaz., vol. xliii, Jan. 1907, pp. 11-44, fig's- 1-4- 



This contribution is not only one of general interest on the subject 

 of hybridization among wild plants, but it is of special interest to us 

 by reason of the discussion in connection with Bartram's oak {Qtceracs 

 heterophylla Michx.), and the fact that the critical observations on this 

 admitted hybrid, described and illustrated in this contribution, were 

 based upon young seedlings raised in the New York Botanical Garden, 

 from acorns collected at Richmond Valley, Staten Island, in October 

 1905. 



The tree from which the acorns were obtained was one of the several 

 first discovered by Mr. Wm. T. Davis, in 1888, and recorded in the 

 Proceedings of the Nahiral Science Association of Staten Island, vol. i, 

 p. 71, Sept. 8, 1888, many years before the subject of hybridization 



