218 On the Climate, §c. of the South Shore of Lake Erie. 
The indigenous vegetation of this vicinity is of rather a south- 
ern type—shown by the absence, ina great measure, of ever- 
greens, and the occurrence of more southern genera, as the Cercis, 
Ilex, Hsculus, Nelumbium, Gleditschia, Magnolia, &c. Eliott’s 
chain of great lakes. 
Many of our birds are species whose most northern ranges of 
migration have been assigned many degrees south of this, by- 
ornithologists. ‘The hooded, Kentucky, yellow-throated-wood, © 
ecerulean, and prairie warblers, annually rear their young in this 
vicinity. rail’s fly-catcher, and the piping plover, have been 
repeatedly seen here, and the purple ibis is an occasional visitor. 
The list might be greatly extended. ie 
a numbers of the Sylvicole semi-annually congregate 
here, during their migrations, and seem to make it a resting- 
The Papilio Ajax and P. Marcellus have also been described as 
southern insects; and the late Mr. Doubleday located the former 
* See the figure and description in No. 76 of the Family Visitor. 
