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them common on all visits, and without doubt they winter on the 



Point March 9-10, 1907, they were in full song. 



140. *Zamclodia ludoviciana. Rose-breasted Grosbeak. 



The Rose-breasted Grosbeak was fairly common May II. I'.ior,. but 

 was not seen at all May 20-21, 190G, and but two from May 30 to 

 June 1, 1907. We have met.it but once in the fall. From September 

 18 to 21, from one to seven w r ere noted each day. They were very 

 dillicult to find, keeping well up in the tops of the high trees and hid- 

 den in the leaves, and the only indication of their presence was the 

 sharp grosbeak click that occasionally came to us from somewhere 

 overhead. Even after hearing one it was most difficult to locate it 

 and we spent hours in the aggregate, standing under the large wal- 

 nut trees, with our necks bent back, staring into the foliage, trying 

 to locate from which quarter the sounds came. It was only in the 

 early morning that any were noted at all. In short, this fall it wa< 

 rioted that, though from sunrise for a few hours certain parts of the 

 woods would be filled with warblers and other birds, later in the day 

 there would hardly be one in sight or to be found, and it always re- 

 mained a mystery where so many birds could spend so many hours 

 of the day without their presence being detected. 



132. *Cyanospiza, cyanea. Indigo Bunting. 



Common on nearly all our visits, October 29, 1905, and March 0-H>. 

 1907, being the only dates when we failed to note them. October 14, 

 1906, three late birds were seen, and a juvenile with nestling down 

 still plentifully attached to the feathers, was taken. 



133. *Spiza americana. Dickcissel. 



The Dickcissel is another bird that, after extending its range into 

 Southeastern Michigan, retreated again. Its history at the Point 

 closely parallels its career in Michigan, at least as far as its re- 

 cession is concerned. Personally we have not met it on Pelee. 

 though we have looked closely for it. Saundcrs reports that it was 

 common enough in 1884, and says of it, Auk II, 307, "June 1, 1884, 

 W. L. Bailey, Mr. A. P. Saunders and W. E. Saunders found several 

 Black-throated Buntings about two miles from the end of Point 

 Pelee in a meadow first Canadian record. Subsequently, in extend- 

 ing our search, we found one or more pairs in every field. ... 1 

 birds were observed in every locality on the Point, and on the re- 

 turn drive they were heard constantly till we had gone three miles 

 into the mainland and then no more were noted." Saunders aNo in- 

 forms us that he met them again September 10, I'.MK). and says. -\V.> 

 saw five Dickcissels, but did not secure any. They were in the I 

 fields on the dry side of the east and west ditch and perhaps half a 

 mile from it." The next fall, 1901, Keays did not note the bird, nor 

 has it been seen on the Point since. 



