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would not fly when crumbs were thrown out. Then I began to feed it from 

 my hand, and it soon became so tame that it would fly to meet me, and 

 M'ould come in at the open door or window. I would call it to me at any 

 time if it was within sound of my voice. It went away in October and 

 returned the last of April. It would come to the doorstep all ready for 

 crumbs and would light on my hand and peck a piece of cake. I would 

 have known it from its manner, but it had lost a joint of one toe, which 

 I thought a sure mark. It would always bring its young to the door, and 

 sometimes into the house, and they, too, would be very tame. One sum- 

 mer it brought with its own a young bunting and fed it, a much larger 

 bird than the sparrow. The chippy came 7iine summers and the last one 

 one morning after a cold rain storm the last of May, came to the win- 

 dow seeming weak and sick. We fed it but it grew weaker and in a few- 

 hours it died." I have a like story reported to me from Milton, Mass., 

 where a Robin returned for four years. — Reginald Heber Howe, Jr., 

 Longxvood, Mass. 



The Cardinal an Established Resident of Ontario. — In September I 

 spent four days, 17th to 21st, in company with my cousin, Mr. H. H. 

 Keays at Point Pelee, collecting. Nearly every evening 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 com- 

 plicated 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 3'ears ago and had 

 since been quite common, stating that it was a splendid whistler, and that 

 an old lady 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 it must be the 

 Cardinal {^Cardinalis cardinalis), and sure enough, on the following day 

 we secured one, a young male in moulting plumage. Twice afterwards 

 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 qviite plentifully covered 

 with red cedar, and the weather remaining mild in fall 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 noted the corn 

 well bleached on the mainland. 



It is to be hoped, however, that it will not restrict its range to the point 

 nor to the shores of lake Erie in Ontario, as this bright plumaged bird 

 will make an acceptable addition to our fauna. 



Dr. McCallum says a few of this species are seen along the lake shore 

 every summer near Dunnville (Mclllwraith 'Birds of Ontario '). Inland 

 we have but few records of stragglers, which in the vicinitv of London 



