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no migralional activity in this species until the beginning of Oc- 

 tober but this experience at the Point indicates that they start 

 moving the first of September and what seems to us hke a sta- 

 tionary population is,in reality, a steady stream of migrants. 



Like data points in the same direction with other species. 

 Blue Jays as a species are permanent residents yet the middle of 

 October, 1906, we saw them in lafge numbers crossing the lake. 

 Blackbirds also migrate heavily from the last of August or ear- 

 lier while the species seems to remain stationary in point of 

 numbers until late in the fall, and they sometimes winter with 

 us. Cedar Waxwings we have always suspected to be migra- 

 tory though generally listed as not so ; but we were hardly pre- 

 pared to find them migrating the first of September ; or the 

 Robins and Bluebirds the middle of October, nearly a month 

 before they are, as a species, due to leave us. 



The Carolinian tendencies of the fauna have been previously 

 enlarged upon in their botanical relations in the Description. 

 The same tendency is markedly shown in the ornithology as 

 the following list of species will demonstrate : 



Cardinal. — common resident. 



Carolina Wren. — regular and not uncommon resident. On 

 our last visit almost abundant. 



Yellow-breasted Chat. — common summer resident. 



Blue-gray Gnatcatcher.— common migrant and likely regu- 

 lar breeder. 



Orchard Oriole. — very common migrant and without doubt a 

 common breeder. 



Cerulean Warbler. — common migrant and likely breeds. 



Besides these there are three other species of a more or less 

 southern general distribution which were once common but are 

 now rare or extinct on the Point. Their decrease, however, 

 does not seem to be due to local causes as the same might be 

 said of them in other surrounding territory. 



Lark Sparrow, Grasshopper Sparrow and Dickcissel. 



To this list of Carolinian birds might be added two stragglers 

 — ^Mockingbird and Chuck-wills-widow. 



The latter is of course a wanderer pure and simple, but the 

 former had every indication of being perfectly at home and 



