164 The Ottawa Naturalist. [Nov. 



Turkey Point is a small marshy piece of land extending 

 about two miles out into Long Point Bay, on the north shore of 

 Lake Erie, some 40 miles south-west of Hamilton. — W. E. 

 Saunders, London, Ont. 



Unusual Nesting Habit op Slate-colored Junco. — 

 While at Armstrong's Point, Youghall, N.B., in July last, I was 

 surprised to see a nest of the Slate-colored Junco, Junco hyemalis, 

 built on a ledge beneath the gable of the house in which I was 

 staying. When examined on July 20th, it contained two young 

 birds, about half grown, and one old egg. The nest was situated 

 about 10 feet from the ground and the house was partly sur- 

 rounded by the edge of a spruce grove — Arthur Gibson. 



Extension of the Range of Peronyscus Michiganensis. 

 — Some months ago I published an account of the taking of thia 

 mouse at Point Pelee. Subsequently Mr. John Morden found 

 these in great numbers at the base of Point Pelee on the main 

 land, so that one is led to expect them throughout the Lake 

 Erie District of Ontario, but I was rather surprised on May 13th 

 to find in my traps on the shore of Lake Huron several of these 

 mice. The locality was about twenty-five miles east of Sarnia, 

 just at the south-east corner of Lake Huron. The mice were 

 inhabiting the beach in the same way that they lived at Point 

 Pelee. 



I have received from Mr. Norval Jones at Grand 

 Bend, two more specimens of this mouse. Grand Bend is only 

 fifteen miles north-east of the Point where I took the mice on 

 May 13th, but the district is very northern in its characteristics. 

 Crossbills are to be seen there during the summer, and the 

 White-throated Sparrow and Olive-sided Fly-catcher spend the 

 summer there, so that the range of this mouse in Ontario receives 

 quite a northern aspect from these facts. In June, 1908, at the 

 niouth of the Thames River in Lake St. Clair I trapped another 

 of this species, and there is no doubt that it occurs all throughout 

 the South Western Peninsula in considerable numbers.- — W. E. 

 Saunders, London, Ont. 



A Black-fruited Thorn in Ontario. — Mr. Frank 

 Moberley, C.E., has sent down from Abitibi, specimens of 

 black fruit of a CraicBgiis, presumably Douglasii, which Mr. 

 James M. Macoun records as far east as Manitoba. I know of 

 no black-fruited thorn having been previously found in 

 Ontario. — J. Fletcher. 



