74 STATEN ISLAND INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 
Barnes, J. P. Chapin, and H. H. Cleaves, was presented. The 
observers were afield from 7.45 a.m. to 5 p.m. Temperature 36 
to 40° F. Sky overcast. Wind light, east. Ground snow-cov- 
ered. Territory Tottenville to Great Kills on foot, to New Dorp 
by train and through the Moravian Cemetery on foot. 
(Birds are listed in order seen.) Herring gull 500 to 600, esti- 
mated. Crow about 50. Horned grebe 1. Junco about 25. 
Starling 30 to 50. White-throated sparrow 1 (Tottenville), feed- 
ing at refuse dump. Song sparrow 4, two singing. Blue jay Io. 
Sparrow hawk 4. Golden-eye 9 or 10. Buffle-head flock of about 
IO, sexes evenly divided. Horned lark 2. Meadowlark about 15. 
Red-winged blackbird 2 males and 2 females observed in company 
with starlings and meadowlarks. Holboell’s grebe 4 at Princes 
Bay. Goldfinch 3. Myrtle warbler 3. Scaup duck 7 (Huguenot 
Park). Redbreasted merganser 1 (Princes Bay). Redshoul- 
dered hawk 1 (Huguenot Park). Cardinal 1 (Annadale). 
Chickadee 1 (Annadale). Barred owl 1 (Robinson’s woods, 
Great Kills). Great black-backed gull 5 (Great Kills). Redpoll 
25 (New Dorp). Tree sparrow several at New Dorp; one at 
feeding station in Moravian Cemetery. Saw-whet owl 1 (Mora- 
vian Cemetery). Longeared owl 25 to 30 in several groups, Mora- 
vian Cemetery. Muscellaneous: Signs of screech owl noted in 
three different tree cavities and nesting boxes at Pleasant Plains, 
Princes Bay, and Huguenot Park, respectively. Beneath one of 
the holes, on the ground, were found the entrails of a mouse, and 
inside of the cavity were the remains of half a meadow mouse. 
In the second roost (a Berlepsch box) was found a mass of starling 
feathers and two lower mandibles from starlings, one from an 
adult and one from an immature bird; also English sparrow feath- 
ers. The third place examined contained numerous screech-owl 
pellets. Several gray squirrels were seen (Tottenville and Great 
Kills) and numerous tracks. Track of ring-neck pheasant noted 
at Great Kills near the Boulevard. 
Mr. Wm. T. Davis stated that on Feb. 20, 1920, he had seen 
six female and one male evening grosbeaks on the wooded slope 
