Avifauna of Lake Erie Islands. 17 



Wood Pewce, Least Flycatcher, Song Sparrow, Indigo Bunt 

 ing, Wilson's, Black-throated. Blue, Canadian, and Black-poll 

 Warblers, Redstart, Goldfinch, and Robin, all fairly common. 

 It should be noted that there were no Common Terns nest- 

 ing on this island during this year. 



The Kelley's Island list is not of sufficient interest to war- 

 rant the space, it would occupy. It is sufficient to say that 

 the only migrant birds noted were the Wilson's, Black-poll, 

 and Magnolia Warblers. The Purple Martins were crossing 

 in great numbers from Pelee Island, and could be noted all 

 the way. When they reached Kelley's they remained there, 

 and at early twilight formed a huge funnel shaped cloud over 

 the woods a little west of the middle of the island. This cloud 

 was the. signal for retiring into the trees for the nightly roost. 



July 28, 1908, a class of ten students visite.d Pelee, Big 

 Chicken, North Harbor, and Put-in-Bay islands. Since an- 

 other trip was made to these same islands and also to Little 

 Chicken. Middle, and the Rattle of Rattlesnake islands by 

 four of us from August 17 to 21 of the same summer, noth- 

 ing need be said of the one-day trip separately. The partici- 

 pants in this launch trip were B. R. Showalter, W. G. Gif- 

 ford, students, and the writer's fifteen-year-old son. The itin- 

 erary of this trip was as follows : Left Sandusky at 3 :15 p. 

 m., August 17, spent that night on the east side of Kelley's. 

 Middle Island, 7 to 10 a. m., August 18; Pelee Island, 10 a. 

 m., August 18, to 8 a. m., August 20. Brief stops were made 

 on Little Chicken, Big Chicken (Chick being under water), 

 North Harbor, where lunch was eaten and considerable study 

 and photographing done, the Rattle of Rattlesnake, and Ce- 

 dar Point, all on August 30, with a stop for the night and 

 early morning at Cedar Point. The only notable things 

 learned on this trip, aside from some new records for Pelee 

 Island, were that there were no changes of any consequence 

 in the conditions on the smaller islands, and we found the 

 Common Terns nesting in as great numbers as possible on 

 the westerly extending reef of Middk Island, and all over 

 the top of the Rattle. We were also told that there were nest- 



