36 The Ottawa Naturalist [May 



that nearly all of these birds vanished before November, and I 

 have heard of only one Chewink having been seen in Ontario 

 since the middle of last November, and absolutely none of many 

 other species which were common at Point Pelee in the winter 

 of 1908-1909. 



These facts indicate that there is a great variation in the 

 pumber of summer birds which are found there during the winter, 

 or in other words, they prove that while Chewinks and other 

 similar species may stay in considerable numbers during one 

 winter, they may be entirely absent in the next, under circum- 

 stances which appear to us to be equally favorable. 



Another peculiar feature of bird life on the Point, which 

 was impressed on us very strongly during the recent trip, is that 

 the birds change their location in a very decided and thorough 

 manner, without reasons which appear adequate to the human 

 observer. For instance, in our former visit, the Robins and 

 Flickers were in the jungle, which is where the berries and grapes 

 are to be found, and Bluebirds were in the open field nearby, 

 feeding in the edge of the jungle, and around the mullein stalks. 

 On our recent visit we found all that region to be absolutely 

 deserted by such species, but they were living in a little section 

 of Red Cedar forest, nearly three miles north of the old location, 

 where their food was apparently limited to berries of Celastrus 

 and Red Cedar. 



Altogether, the visits of these two winters, instead of mak- 

 ing migration and residence problems clearer, seem to have com- 

 plicated them the more. 



The list of birds noted in the four days of the last trip is 

 as follows: 



Marsh Hawk 1 Blue Jay 5 



Great Horned Owl 1 Prairie Homed Lark 25 



Robin 20 Downy Woodpecker 20 



Golden-crowned Kinglet. . 10 Hairy Woodpecker 1 



White-breasted Nuthatch. 8 Goshawk 1 



Brown Creeper 12 . Golden-eve Duck 38 



Cedar Bird 80 Carohna Wren 20 



Cardinal 15 Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 



Song Sparrow 1 Crow 1 



Junco 6 Purple Finch 10 



Tree Sparrow 500 Flicker 4 



Goldfinch 20 Snowflake 12 



The numbers are taken from the day on which most were 

 seen, and it is likely that these numbers include most, if not 

 all, of those seen on the other davs. 



