526 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
One set of three eggs taken by Prof. Macoun, May 3rd, 1889, at 
Hastings, B.C. 
CCVIII. CARDINALIS Bonaparte. 1837. 
593. Cardinal, Red-bird. 
Cardinalis cardinalts (LinN.) Licut. 1854. 
Two were seen, a male and a female at Scotch Lake, York Co., 
N.B., Aug. 20th, 1900. (W. H. Moore.) The cardinal can only be 
regarded as a casual visitor along our southwestern border. Mr. 
Norval reports one or two being found near Port Rowan and Dr. 
Macallum mentions that a few are seen every summer along the 
lake shore south of Dunnville, where they are supposed to breed 
among the evergreens. (MWcllwraith.) A fine male specimen of 
this species in the museum of Toronto University is labelled 
‘Weston, Ontario,” anorthwestern suburb of Toronto. (7hompson- 
Seton in Trans. Can. Institute, Vol. 1., p. 55, 1890.) 
In September I spent four days, 17th to 21st, in company with 
my cousin Mr. H. H. Keays, at Point Pelee, collecting. Nearly 
every day of our stay the fishermen gathered around our camp 
fire, apparently much interested in us as strangers, and in our 
work. After telling us of the strange birds they had seen on the 
point (their descriptions of which were usually too complicated for 
us to make more than a.guess at the species) one of them asked 
us of a bird that made its appearance about four years ago and 
had since been quite common, stating that it was a splendid 
whistler, and that an old lady living in the vicinity had caught a 
number of them and sold them for cage birds, catching them in 
a cage trap and using the first one taken as a decoy for more. 
From his description we concluded that it must be the cardinal 
(Cardinalis cardinalts), and sure enough, on the following day, we 
secured one, a young male in moulting plumage. Twice after- 
wards we heard near our camp, just at dawn, the call note of 
what we decided must have been this bird. Without doubt the 
cardinal has come to stay at Point Pelee, nor could they select a 
more suitable place, the cape being quite plentifully covered with 
red cedar, and the weather in fall remaining mild longer than 
on the mainland, on account of its proximity to the lake, as is 
evident by our having no frost during our stay, while on our 
return we noticed the corn well bleached on the mainland. It is 
