THE 



WILSON BULLETIN 



NO. 67. 



A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY 



VOL. XXI JUNE, 1909. NO. 2 



OLD SERIES VOL. XXI. NEW SERIES VOL. XVI. 



THE BIRDS OF CEDAR POINT AND VICINITY. 



BY LANDS JONES. 



The place referred to is Cedar Point, Erie county, Ohio. 

 It Hes at the west ejid of a long sand spit which forms the 

 eastern barrier protecting" the entrance to Sandusky harbor. 

 The name "Cedar Point" as here used is intended to cove.r 

 the whole of the seven miles of sand spit, which begins at 

 Rye Beach, some two miles west of Huron, and not merely 

 that portion of it which is occupied by the summer resort 

 grounds. 



The territory which is covered by this list includes the topo- 

 graphical quadrangles of Oberlin, \'ermilion, Sandusky, and 

 Put-in-Bay and the adjacent islands of Pelee, Hen and Chick- 

 ens, East Sister, and Middle. Standing at Cedar Point its 

 /Vicinity' as here used may appear too extensive and much 

 too scattered, but from the standpoint of a study of bird 

 movements this vicinity becomes of vital importance not mere- 

 ly to bring in comparisons with other localities which are 

 topographically very unlike the beach and its accompanying 

 swamps, but more to show the direction of these bird move- 

 ments. 



The beginning of the work upon which this list is based 

 dates back to the autumn of 1890, when the writer began his 

 residence in Oberlin. Previous to this time there had been 

 some Good but somewhat scattered work done bv Messrs. 



