6 DviiGHT, Summer Birds of Prince Edward Island, \^lm 



Wiirblers and Maryland Y&llowthroats, while swampy alders 

 suggest the probability of finding Traill's Flycatchers and Swamp 

 Sparrows. If a brook passes through the alders, Water-thrushes 

 may be heard, but it is no easy matter to get even a glimpse of 

 them. 



'I'he birds of the fields are numerous, the Savanna Sparrow 

 jirobahly outnumbering all the others put together. Vesper 

 Sparrows and Song Sparrows abound, while the Robin and 

 Flicker are more frequently seen in the opei'. than elsewhere. 

 Crows stalk al)out in every field, though their nests are in the 

 woods. Goldfinches, Purplf Finches, Crossbills and Cedarbirds 

 are generally seen on the wing in the open countrv. and 11} ing 

 higher tiian the Swallows (IJarn, n;ink,and White-bellied) which 

 most frequently are noticed skimming along near the ground or 

 over the surface of a sheet of water. 



Long familiarity with the notes and habits of the birds of tlie 

 Maritime Provinces enabled me to accomplish much more than 

 if I had been a stranger to them, and even though my stav was 

 brief, I feel confident that those species that escaped my attention 

 were either exceedingly rare or did not occur in the localities I 

 visited. All males were in full song, and females startled from 

 their nests lost no time in beginning to scold. I was in the field 

 from morning till night, and my gun with its auxilliary was a 

 trusty friend. Of a previous visit to the island in 1876 little 

 need be said, for the egg fever was on me at that time and the 

 finding of a Junco's nest was sufficient to satisfv my ambition for 

 several days. 



While iu Charlottetown I c *.;amined a hundred or more birds 

 stufl'ed bv Prof. S. N. Earle, but unforttmately they lacked data 

 and are therefore of little use in the present connection. P^rom 

 him, however, I obtained much interesting information. Some 

 notes upon the winter birds of the island have been published by 

 Mr. }3ain (Auk, II, 1SS5, pp. 262-267). 



I present here a list that embraces only the species that have 

 come under my own observation, but it includes most of the birds 

 that make their summer home (>n Prince Edward Island, the fauna 

 of which is thoroughly Canadian. 



Cepphus grylle. Black Guim.kmot. — The 'Sea Pigeons' used to breed 

 in great ninnViers in tiie cliffs at various points along the coast. J iiave nr 

 doubt that they still do so in suuiller numbers, although the only positive 



