Davis: NATURAL History RECORDS 69 
Messrs. Edgar Bell and Carol Stryker and Miss Campbell re- 
ported finding the nest of a redshouldered hawk in the woods on 
Todt Hill on April 19, 1919; and Miss Bailey and Mr. Bell re- 
ported a dead great-horned owl on Todt Hill on April 20, 1910. 
The meeting of May 12, 1919, was held in the Public Museum. 
Mr. Carol Stryker recorded a wood duck seen May 4, 19109, in 
the Todt Hill woods and exhibited one hunting and one war arrow- 
head found in the Little Clove Valley, one hunting arrowhead from 
Martling Pond, Clove Valley, and arrowheads from Todt Hill. 
Mr. Edw. J. Burns exhibited a small specimen of Tropaea luna 
forma rubromargimata Davis, captured in Cameron’s woods ‘on 
May 2, 1919, and stated that it was a variety found only in the 
spring. He also showed the beetle Buprestis decora Fab., taken 
at Tompkinsville on May 9, 1910,:and a syrphid fly, Callicera 
johnsont Hunter, taken at Grasmere April 27, 1919. Both of 
these insects are new to Staten Island. The Buprestid may have 
emerged from lumber in one of the yards near by. 
Mr. Wm. T. Davis exhibited a nest of the blue-gray gnatcatcher, 
Polioptila caerulea caerulea, collected after the breeding season by 
Col. Wirt Robinson at Wingina, Virginia, August 1916. The 
nest is very beautiful, being made of plant fibers; the walls are 
_ high and thick, while the outside is adorned with lichens. 
Mr. Edgar Bell reported a cardinal’s nest in Silver Lake swamp 
May 3, 1919. It contained one egg at the time. 
The meeting of June 2, 1919, was held in the Public Museum. 
A letter was read from Mr. Howard H. Cleaves stating that purple 
martins had visited a birdhouse at Princes Bay several times dur- 
ing May, though they did not stay. He also mentioned a consider- 
able number of blue-winged warblers near Huguenot, he having 
heard three males singing at one time. 
Mr. Edw. J. Burns exhibited the rare beetle Gnorimus macu- 
losus Knoch, found on the trunk of a tree near Rockland Avenue 
and Manor Road on May 23, 1919; also an olive-backed thrush 
which died on the porch of the Museum on May 24, 1919. It was 
