Jones — 0.\ Hirds of Cedar Point. 



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r,l. ChiiH/iild (iain/iild (iniericdiKi. — (lolden-eye. 



Out of twelve ret'ords for this species seven are for tlie Ober- 

 liii Water Works reservoir. There are only three Cedar Point 

 records. No migration dates fan he assigned from the records, but 

 there are indications that the sirring migration covers the last half 

 of March and most of Ainil, and that the birds return during the 

 last half of November. January 20. 1008, three were recorded at 

 Cedar Point. Hunters mention (Jolden-eyes or "Whistlers" as oc- 

 casional ducks in the marshes. 



Fig. 7. — A dune (ontrolled by the Prunus Virginia Consocies of 

 the Prunus-Ithus Dune Thicket Formation. Note the secondary 

 species. This dune appears in the distance in the left third of Fig. 

 2 ( first paper). It was in the vicinity of this dune that the nest of 

 Piping Plover was found, in the midst of a broad, flat sand waste. 



.".">. CUiiif/iila islaiidicd. — P>arrow's Golden-eye. 



There is the skin of a female in the Oberlin College collection 

 which was captured on April .">, 1S02. at Lorain, by Mr. Harry 

 Warden. Its presence in the Cedar Point marshes has been sti'ong- 

 l.v suspected. ])ut no siiccimens have been actuall.v secured. 



.".(I. Clidiitoiieltd dlheold. — Buftle-head. 



.V common migrant, hut far less so than formerly. The docreasp 

 lias been niai'ked since 10(14. T'ntil 1004 it was the most regular 

 of the ducks in its \isitations lo the Oberlin Water Works reser- 

 voii-. companies nf li-oni three to more than twenty remaining there 



