556 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. . 
regarded as a casual visitor along our southwestern border. Mr. 
Norval reports one or two being found near Port Rowan and Dr. 
Maccallum mentions that a few are seen every summer along the 
lake shore south of Dunnville, where they are supposed to breed 
among the evergreens. (Mcl/lwraith.) A fine male specimen of 
this species in the museum of Toronto University is labelled ‘‘Weston, 
Ontario,” a northwestern suburb of Toronto. (E. T. Seton in Trans. 
Cay. Institute, Vol. I., p. 55, 1890.) Mr. Moore’s identification is 
probably incorrect. The birds seen by him were almost certainly 
the summer tanager. 
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 des- 
cription we concluded that 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 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 to be hoped, however, that 
it will not restrict its range to the point nor to the shore of Lake 
Erie in Ontario, as this bright plumaged bird will make an acceptable 
addition to our fauna. Inland, we have but few records of stragglers, 
which in the vicinity of London are as follows: One shot at St. 
Thomas, spring of 1890, by Mr. O. Foster; one taken in a cedar 
wamp a mile from London, November 30th, 1896, this being the 
