THE 



WILSON BULLETIN 



NO. 71. 



A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY 



VOL. XXII JUNE, 1910. NO. 2 



OLD SERIES VOL. XXII. NEW SERIES VOL. XVII. 



BIRD MIGRATION AT POINT PELEE, ONTARIO, IN 

 THE FALL OF 1909.^ 



N. A. WOOD. 



As ma}' be infered from the literature. Point Pelee is a very 

 interesting region to the student of bird migration. Descrip- 

 tions, however, while giving the facts, cannot do the subject 

 justice and fortunate is the observer who has an opportunity 

 of watching the migrating hordes of birds that assemble and 

 cross Lake Erie at this place. 



The credit for the discovery of the advantages of this Point 

 for the study of bird migration belongs to W. E. Saunders of 

 London, Ontario, who studied birds there as early as 1882. 

 In 1905, Taverner and Swales began a study of the subject, 

 and the continued visits of these three earnest bird students 

 materialized in June, 1907, when Taverner and Swales pub- 

 lished a paper on the bird life of the Point. ^ This paper is 

 not merely a list but contains also an account of the habits of 

 many species. In August and September, 1907, Taverner, 

 .Swales, and others extended to me the hospitality of their 

 camp at the Point, and I spent a few weeks there observing 

 the migration. The time was too brief to permit of much 

 work on this trip, but in September, 1909, on an appropriation 



' From the University of Mjiehigan Museum. 



' Taverner, P. A., and Swales, B. H., annotated List of tlie Birds 

 of Point Pelee, Wilson Bull., .Tune. 1907. and September, 1908. 



