142 The Wilson Bulletin — No. 80. 



Woodhouse's Jay. Baird. " Named in honor of Dr. Wood- 

 house, who first discovered it on October 11, 1851, at San 

 Francisco Mountains, N. Mex." 



Worthing:ton's Marsh Wren. Brewst. " Named in honor 

 of the discoverer, Mr. W. W. Worthington, who first found 

 it at Sapelo Island, Ga., November 17, 1887." 



W^rig^ht's Flycatcher. (Swains.) Baird. "Named in 

 honor of the discoverer, INIr. C. Wright, of the Mexican Boun- 

 dary Survey, who obtained the specimens at El Paso in 

 Texas." 



Xantus's Humming-bird. Lawr. "Named in honor of Mr. 

 Xantus's, who discovered it. 



A STUDY OF THE AVIFAUNA OF THE LAKE ERIE 



ISLANDS. 



by lynds jones. 



The Birds of Pelee Island. 



By referring- to the first article of this series of papers it 

 will be noted that this, the largest island of the group studied, 

 was visited August 28 to September 1, 1905; for about two 

 hours on July 28, and again from August 18 tO' 21, 1908 ; 

 July 16 to September 7, 1910; and finally the evening of Au- 

 gust 21 and the morning of August 22, 1911. This list, there- 

 fore, takes account only of the summer resident birds and the 

 beginning of the autumn migrations. It cannot be regarded 

 as more than preliminary even for the summer season. The 

 correctness or incorrectness of the reports which the residents 

 of the island made to us of vast migrations of the birds, par- 

 ticularly tlie water fowl, during the last of September and 

 well into November need corroboration. There seems to be 

 no resident of the island now who is competent to make 

 the necessary observations. 



The writer believes that the list as here presented repre- 

 sents the actual conditions of the bird population during the 



