Davis: NATURAL History REcorpDs 129 
Mr. Carol Stryker reported what he had identified as a yellow- 
crowned night heron near the Bird Club cabin on April 8 and 
showed a number of photographs taken by Mr. Bell and himself 
of a redshouldered hawk found disabled. The bird had been fed 
until it was restored to health. 
Mr. Wm. T. Davis stated that April 10, 1922, with a temperature 
of 84 degrees, was the warmest April 10 in the vicinity of New 
York City of which the Weather Bureau had any record. On 
that day he had observed the large dragonfly Anav junius on 
Hyatt St., St. George, and it was also quite common in the Mora- 
vian Cemetery and about the Ink-well Pond. In the pond and 
neighboring swamp he had observed five large painted turtles sun- 
ning themselves. He saw no small specimens thus early. In the 
swamp in front of the Bird Club cabin he had observed with a 
glass a male Maryland yellowthroat warbler for about a half hour. 
This is an early record. While he was looking at the warbler a 
turkey buzzard flew over going in a southerly direction. The 
latter does not often reach this part of the island, though in recent 
years it has come frequently to the vicinity of Tottenville. 
On the night of April 20-21 it was cold and a pail of water was 
frozen over on the morning of the 21st. On April 26 apple and 
other fruit trees were generally in blossom. He considered this 
spring about a week earlier than usual. 
Mr. Davis also stated that he had heard the harsh and dis- 
cordant squawk of the introduced pheasant, both in Bucks Hollow 
near Richmond, on April 26, and in the large swamp west of 
Huguenot Avenue, at Huguenot Park, on April 28. 
The presence of the redbacked salamander under the porch of 
the grocery store owned by Mr. Macdonald, across Wall St. from 
the Museum, was mentioned by Mr. Davis as. an interesting ex- 
ample of how a species may maintain itself for a long time in an 
isolated locality if left undisturbed. 
Mr. Edward J. Burns exhibited a box of Diptera composed of 
the common flies to be met with in the spring, pointing out their 
