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the warblers lived on insects. They did not touch the cedar 

 nor dog-wood berries, but did eat grapes at times. 



The warblers always kept on the side of the point most 

 protected from the wind. In those localities where there was 

 an abundance of both cedars and deciduous trees the warblers 

 seemed to shift back and forth between the oaks and the ce- 

 dars indiscriminately. The red and chestnut oaks were by 

 far the most popular of the deciduous trees, although the 

 sycamores and sugar maples were favored. Warblers could 

 almost always be found in the willows and button-bushes 

 about the swamp. They were rarely found in ash trees. 



The vegetation of the point was very peculiar. It had the 

 general southern aspect of all Lake Erie sandspits, but was 

 lacking in those prime features, the cottonwoods and wil- 

 lows. Among the plants wdiich we do not find commonly 

 about Oberlin were the hackberry, chestnut oak, arrow-wood, 

 snowberry, sweet-scented sumach, wafer ash, red cedar, com- 

 mon juniper, western prickly pear, red ash, blue ash, green 

 ash, and red bearberry. The absence of the chestnut, beech, 

 hornbeam, horse chestnut, and smooth sumach were notice- 

 able. 



WOODY PLANTS ON FISHING POINT. 



Red Maple. — Common at extreme base. 



White Maple. — Common at extreme base. 



Sugar Maple. — Abundant in the deciduous belt. 



Hackberry. — Common in the deciduous belt. 



White Ash. — Fairly common, except among the cedars. 



Black Ash. — ? — in the deciduous belt. 



Green Ash. — Common in the deciduous belt. 



Red Ash. — Fairly common, except among tlie cedars. 



Blue Ash. — Common, except among the cedars. 



Honey Locust. — Uncommon. 



Black Walnut. — ^V few oii the east shore. 



Red Cedar.— Abundant. 



Red ]\Iulberry. — Scattered. 



Flop Hornbeam. — Common. 



Sycamore.— Fairlv common. 



