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way out on this, it was most amusing to watcli the little mites come 

 buzzing over the last of the red-cedar bushes and then drop down 

 towards the ground and. without pause or hesitation, follow every 

 winding of the ever-changing sand to its extreme end. and then, with 

 a sudden and resolute turn, square away for Pelee Island, just visi- 

 ble on the horizon. Dr. Jones was stationed on the opposite islands 

 from August 26 to September 2, 1905, and makes the following state- 

 ment as to the movements of the species over the waters of the lake : 

 "Hummingbirds were passing during the daylight, and all those noted 

 were flying very low. In fact they dropped down between the waves 

 for protection from the wind, which was quartering, or at right an- 

 gles to their line of flight and seemed to disturb them. I noticed 

 that in the strong westerly wind, all birds headed southwest, but al- 

 ways drifted south." 



98. *Tyranniis tyrannns. — Kingbird. 



Common on all May visits. In September, 1905, the bulk of the 

 species had left when we arrived on the 3d, and we saw but too the 

 next, and one each on the two succeeding days. The next year. Sep- 

 tember 1, we saw a little flock of about twenty on the mainland dur- 

 ing our ride out to the Point, and four more on the return trip on the 

 4th, but none were noted on the Point itself at that time. On our 

 return on the 15th of the same month all had gone. In 1907, when 

 we arrived August 24, Kingbirds were very common and distributed 

 all over the Point and the adjoining mainland. Each day brought 

 more, until by the 27th there were a greater number of Kingbirds 

 present than any of us had ever seen at one time before. Most of 

 them were in the waste clearings near the end of the Point, where 

 at times we saw flocks numbering hundreds of individuals. The 

 dead trees scattered about the edges of these clearings were at all 

 times more or less filled with them and it was no uncommon sight to 

 see from fifteen to twenty in one small tree. The 29th saw the cul- 

 mination of the flight, and when we went out in the morning of the 

 30th we found that the bulk of the kingbirds had left, and we saw 

 but a few scattered individuals, where the day before there were 

 hundreds. They kept steadily diminishing in numbers until Septem- 

 ber 5, when we saw none and decided that the last had left, but the 

 next morning, before we broke camp, we saw two in the fields near 

 one of the farm houses. Likely these were the last stragglers. 



99. *My larch us crinitus. — Crested Flycatcher. 



On nearly all visits, except those of early spring (March) and 

 late fall (October), we have found the Crested Flycatcher fairly 

 common. The bulk seems to leave before the middle of September. 

 Our latest record is September 15, 1906, though Keays lists one as 

 late as the 19th, 1901. 



