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roundings. Sharp-shinned Hawks are also usually found 

 here, and occasional Crows and JMeadowlarks. During" the 

 heaviest migrations not only are such places full of all sorts 

 of birds, but they even spill over upon the sand meadows and 

 beach, and fly out into the marsh vegetation. Many strictly 

 wood warblers have often been observed feeding like shore 

 birds near the water's edge on such occasions. 



Westward from the mouth of the Black Channel, accom- 

 panying the more open waters of the bay proper, the sand 

 spit widens, and for the most part is covered with a more or 

 less dense forest marshward from the crest, with occasional 

 and usually small areas of bare sand or grass covered sand, 

 except in the dune region where the blowouts between the 

 dunes cause many extensive bare sand areas. These forested 

 areas correspond to forested areas of the adjacent mainland, 

 except that the species represented are more numerous, and 

 there are areas of considerable cedar thickets. For a more 

 detailed account of the vegetation the reader is referred to 

 tlie two papers cited above. 



It should be noted that from a width of less than twenty 

 rods at its eastern terminus at Rye Beach the marsh widens 

 and opens westward to its western end where there is open 

 water and a distance of two miles between Cedar Point pleas- 

 ure resort and the docks of Sandusky, and that the distance 

 westward to Marblehead is considerably farther and across 

 open water. Kelley's Island is plainly visible some seven 

 miles northwestward. 



Pelee Island is the largest and most northerly island of the 

 archipelago lying between Sandusky and Point Pelee. Its 

 physical features are strikingly similar to those of the greater 

 part of Point Pelee, but the interior marshes are less extensive 

 now, having been drained and utilized for agricultural pur- 

 poses. Its southern end closel}- resembles the southern end 

 of Point I'Vlee \\'ith practically the same vegetation and l:)each 

 formations. On all of my visits to the island during the 

 autumnal migrations I have foimd all sjiecicy; of migrating 

 birds rant^'ing southward along or ]iarallel to tlie east shore 



