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eral times leading us merry chases after what we thought was that 

 bird. 



August 15- HJ, 1908, Broun Thrashers were but fairly common and 

 probably represented the breeding population of the Point. The year 

 previous, from the 24th of the same month on, they were much more 

 alMimlant and, usually from the first of September to the appearance 

 of the Sharp-shin flight, the species has been abundant. As soon as 

 the hawks cotne the grout bulk of them suddenly thin out. We have 

 met with but little evidence that the Awipitrea really catch any 

 great numbers of them, but they are so harried arid worried that they 

 keep well within their favorite strongholds in the jumper beds that 

 jrrow between the red cedars near the end of the Point. When the 

 Sharp-shins are about in any numbers, it. is with great difficulty that 

 the Thrashers can be made to forsake this scrub. When they are 

 finally forced to break cover, they make a quick dash to the next 

 nearest Hump, flying low, barely skimming the ground and immedi- 

 ately bury themselves in its innermost recesses. At such times they 

 seem mnHi less afraid of man than of hawks. This bird seem- to 

 remain considerably later in I he fall on the Point than in adjoining 

 Michigan stations. OH.ober II, 11)00, we were surprised to note at 

 least twenty individuals at a considerably later date than anything 

 we can find in our Detroit notes. 



188. *'/'hrvothoru8 ludovivimmx . Carolina Wren. 



This is another interesting spcHes upon whiHi I'oint I'elee bases 

 its claim to originality among the Canadian faunas. The Carolina 

 Wren is found regularly and commonly here, and in but few other 

 localities in the dominion. In August, 11)01, Lynds Jones found the 

 species on East Sister Island (Will. Hull., ll>oi, pp. 70-71), but it 

 was not until the fall of 11)05 that it was added to the list of main- 

 land birds. September 5 of that year Kliigh look one and saw an- 

 other. The next day four were observed or taken, and others noted 

 the 7th,. 8th, and llth. Among these were two juveniles of different 

 ages, and apparently belonging to separate broods. The youngest had 

 the nestling down still attached to the plumage, and was evidently 

 raised on the Point (Auk XXIII., 1906, p. 105). In 1900, we noted 

 three May 20 and took one in the same locality, where they had 

 been seen the preceding fall. May 24 Saunders found them on the 

 mainland just east of the base of the Point. In the fall they were 

 noted September 1, 2, 3, and 19, and October 14. In 1907 single birds 

 were heard or seen March 9, May 31, June 1, and August 29 and .",0. 

 In 1908 we found them scattered all over the end of the Point, from 

 the Cross-Road out and singing vigorously August 15-10. Hitherto 

 we had observed them but in a limited area on the east side near 

 the end of the Cross Road. 



It will be seen from this that the species is well established on the 



