BuRNSi — On Alexander Wilson. 79 



1902. Coues, Elliott. Key to North American Birds, II. Wilsonia 

 microcepliala, pp. 223-224. 



1902. Ridgway, Robert. Birds of North and Middle America, II. 

 Wilsonia, microcephala Ridgway. ("Pennsylvania and New 

 Jersey; also, according to Audubon, Kentucky.") 



1904. Townsend, Charles Wendall, M.D. The Birds of Essex Coun- 

 ty, Mass. Memoirs of the NattaU Oni. Club, No. Ill, Musci- 

 capa mimita, p. 318. ("Brewer at Wenham.") 



1907. Chapman, Frank M. Warblers of North America, Hypothet- 

 ical List, Wilsonia microcephala (Ridg.), pp. 299-300. 



1908. Trotter, Spencer. Ty])e Birds of Eastern I'ennsylvania and New 

 Jersey. Cassinia, XI. 3007, ]\Inscicapa miinda (Wils.), p. 25. 

 ("This species, not since detected and the basis of Audubon's 

 attack on Wilson and Ord's counter charge, is stated by the 

 latter to have been secured by Wilson near Philadelphia.") 



THE BIRDS OF POINT PELEE. ■ 



BY P. A. TAVEENEB AND B. H. SWALES. 



(Continued from Vol. XIX. p. 153.) 

 142.t *Piranga erythromelas. — Scarlet Tanager. 



We have found the Scarlet Tanager common on all May visits. In 

 the fall it has not been as numerous as the abundance of other 

 species would lead us to anticipate. From September 4 to 1.1. 19(i."). we 

 saw but five, all on the 5th. The next year one was seen September 

 1 and none on the succeeding visit in the middle of the same month. 

 However, on October 14 three were secured or taken. In 1907 from 

 August 26 to September 2 one or two were noted each day. In all 

 probability it is a more or less common summer resident. 



143. *Pro<jne siibis. — Piirple Martin. 



The Purple Martin has always been present on the occasions of 

 our May trips about the streets of Leamington, where a colony or 

 colonies continue to hold out. Swales, in his trip from May 1 to 4, 

 1908, discovered from ten to several there, while at the same time 

 they had not arrived in any numbers in Detroit. Our fall dates have 

 usually been a little late for this species, wliich usually leaves these 

 localities before the end of August. 



In the fall of 1905 Lynds Jones' work among the outlying islands 



tOwing to a mistake of the writer, the numbering of some of the 

 last species in the previous installment of this list is incorrect. This 

 is the proper nund)er of this species in its sequence in the list. 



P. A. T, 



