The Birds of Cedar Point, Sandusky. 143 



THE BIRDS OF CEDAR POINT, SANDUSKY. 



R. L. Baird. 



The following list of birds I observed on Cedar Point withirL 

 two miles of its extremity, from July 30th to August 2otli, 1901, 

 while a student at the O. S. U. Lake Laboratory. The list is 

 not so complete as it might be. I found the birds I did for the 

 most part in short daily visits of about an hour each, generally 

 in the afternoon. One whole day I spent on the Point and two 

 half days. With one exception, that of the American Herring 

 Gull, I think all the species named nest in the neighborhood of 

 Cedar Point. The list ought to be much extended by going 

 over the part nearer the mainland. I think at least fifteen or 

 twenty more species ought to be found there as summer residents. 



I rode from Oberlin to Sandusk}' several times and the 

 additional species I saw in Erie count}' I shall add in a list by 

 themselves. The most noticeable of these were the Bank 

 Swallows. They were in immense flocks along the road from 

 Sandusky to Huron. Sometimes as many as five hundred would 

 alight on two lengths of telephone wire. 



The Long-billed Marsh Wrens were quite common all the 

 time in the reeds to the west of the Point. They were not 

 singing, however, after August 5th. The swamps upon the 

 Point supplied many of the shore birds. In a ilock there were 

 generally Bartramian, Pectoral, Spotted and Semipalmated vSand- 

 pipers, Semipalmated Plover, and Killdeers. It was a common 

 thing during the last week to hear the Coots in the marsh west 

 of the Point. Pied-billed Grebes were al.so tolerably common 

 there. The Bald Eagles were probably a pair which had a nest 

 nearer the mainland. The American Bittern I quote on the 

 authority of Mr. Field, of Dennison College. 



I use the order of the latest A. O. U. check-list. The 

 following abbreviations I add after each species : C. — common ; 

 Tc. — tolerably common ; Fe. — few ; figures indicate the exact 

 number seen. 



CEDAR POINT LIST. 



6. Pied-billed Grebe, Podilj-mbus podiceps. Tc. 



5i(?. American Herring Gull, Larns argentatus sniithsonianus. 1. 



70. Common Tern, Sterna hirundo. C. 



77. Black Tern, Hydrochelidon nigra surinamensis. Fe. 



190. American Bittern, Botaurus lentiginosus. Fe. 



191. Least Bittern, Ardetta exilis. Fe. 



194. Great Blue Heron, Ardea herodias. Tc. 



201. Green Heron, Ardea virescens. Tc. 



212. Virginia Rail, Rallus virginianus. Tc. 



214. Sora, Porzana Carolina. Tc; 



