Natural History Records from the Meetings of the Staten 
Island Nature Club? 
WILLIAM T. Davis 
The June 1922 meeting, postponed to July 1, was held at the 
home of Miss Miriam A. Campbell, 275 Watchogue Road. 
_ Mr. Edward J. Burns gave an account of two screech owls 
that raised three young in the birdhouse in the Paulownia tree in 
front of the Museum at St. George. The owls have frequented 
this birdbox for several years. Mr. Burns also exhibited some 
specimens of sycamore maple twigs with the keys or wings in 
threes and fours instead of the usual pairs. 
Mr. Carol Stryker spoke of his recent visit to the Adirondacks 
and gave an interesting account of the birds he saw there, and he 
compared the fauna and flora with that of Staten Island. 
Mr. Wm. T. Davis stated that the dragonflies Anax longipes 
Hagen and Ladona exusta Say were about the Ink-well Pond near 
the Moravian Cemetery as in 1921. The latter species has only 
of late years been seen on Staten Island. On most parts of Long 
Island this is replaced by Ladona exusta deplanta Rambur, a 
smaller and probably distinct species. He also showed two 
female Libellula quadrimaculata L., taken at Watchogue in open 
woods near the corner of Lambert Lane and South Av. May 30, 
1920, as another rare form locally. A male and female Dorocor- 
dulia lepida Hag. collected in the Woods of Arden, Eltingville, 
Staten Island, June 13, 1922, were shown as an addition to the 
dragonflies heretofore recorded from the island. 
Mr. Ernest Beaumont read a paper on the natural history of 
England, his onetime home, comparing many of the birds, wild 
flowers and trees, famous in literature, with those of our island. 
Mr. Arthur Bell exhibited a fine reel of motion pictures en- 
titled Across the Continent, projected with a small portable 
machine. 
1These records have been largely compiled from the minutes of the 
club, Edward J. Burns secretary. 
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