THE 



WILSON BULLETIN 



NO. 59. 



A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY 



VOL. XIX JUNE, 1907. NO. 2 



THE BIRDS OF POINT FELEE. 



BY P. A. TAVERXER AXD B. H. SWALES. 

 INTRODUCTION. 



The following report is niostU- compiled from the notes of 

 the members of the Great Lakes Ornithological Club, a small 

 organization formed for the purpose of co-operation and in- 

 tensive study of the birds of the Great Lakes. Region. At 

 one of the earliest meetings of the club attention was- called 

 by W. E. Saunders to the peculiarly interesting phases of 

 Point Pelee avifauna, and the interest of the membership was 

 so aroused that a trip was made there May 13 and 1-1, 1905, 

 by W. E. .Saunders, B. H. Swales and P. A. Taverner. The 

 results were so encouraging that further and more extended 

 trips have been made as business conditions permitted. The 

 following are the fruits of the work to date. Credit must be 

 given to the following members, who have aided the writers 

 to the utmost in their endeavors to present all the data so far 

 accumulated in regard to the birds of this interesting locality. 



Dr. William Brodie, who made a collecting trip to the Point 

 in July, 1879, and added some valuable notes in regard to 

 conditions at that early date. 



Mr. W. E. Saunders, of London, Ont., who made various 

 trips during and after 188-1, and has added several species that 

 do not seem to occur there now or that the rest of us have 

 failed to find, besides many other notes whose value will appear 



