170 CLIMATE, &C., SOUTH SHORE LAKE ERIE. 



from the Northwest, through the long chain of the Great 

 Lakes. 



Many of our birds are species whose most Northern ranges 

 of migration have been assigned, by ornithologists, many 

 degrees South of this. The Hooded, Kentucky, Yellow 

 Throated Wood, Cerulean and Prairie Warblers annually 

 rear their young in this vicinity. Trail's Fly Catcher and 

 the Piping Plover have been repeatedly seen here, and the 

 Purple Ibis is an occasional visitor. The list might be 

 greatly extended. 



Great numbers of the Sylvicolae semi-annually congre- 

 gate here, during their migrations, and seem to make it a 

 resting place, both before and after passing the Lake. More 

 Northern species occasionally resort here during Winter for 

 the purpose of obtaining food, or are driven here by storms ; 

 such are the Pine Grosbeak and the White Owl. The Bohe- 

 mian Wax- Wing visits us almost every Winter, and some- 

 times in large flocks. The Pine Finch is described, by some 

 ornithologists, as resorting to the United States only at long 

 intervals, and during Winter. It visits our gardens and 

 grounds in numerous flocks, every season, early in July, 

 and remains here till the ensuing Spring. The young, at 

 their first appearance, still retain much down about their 

 plumage, and cannot have been long absent from their 

 nests. The food of these birds is Aphides during Summer, 

 and at other times small seeds of grapes and other vege- 

 tables. 



The insect tribe show, still more strikingly, Southern 

 affinities. The Papilio Cresphontes, figured and described 

 by Boisduval and Le Conte as the Papilio Thoas., has been 

 repeatedly taken here, though it has been considered as 

 exclusively Southern in its resorts. In the South the larva 

 feeds on the orange and lemon. Here, Major Le Conte 

 informs me, it lives on the Hercules Club.* 



'■' I have since discovered that the favorite food of the larva, in Ohio, is the 

 Fraxiuella, cultivated in our gardens. J. P. K. 



