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on May 28th, while paddling down a stream running out of Cam- 
eron Lake, near the top of Bruce peninsula, I saw in a nearby tree 
a warbler unknown, yellow beneath, with a few black streaks and 
I exclaimed to my companion that it was a Kirtland’s Warbler. 
I immediately shot it and on picking it up found it to be a female 
Prairie Warbler. A search among the trees nearby revealed no 
others, the specimen apparently being alone. My erroneous iden- 
tification was due to the fact that Kirtland’s Warbler was regard- 
ed as a poSsibility on this trip, the latitude and general character 
of the country being similar to that of the district in Northern 
Michigan where it breeds. The Prairie Warbler on the contrary 
is not known to breed nearer than Ohio and this bird was regard- 
ed when taken as a straggler very much out of its course indeed. 
But on May 30, on the return journey, and about nine miles south 
of where the other specimen was taken, I heard an unknown 
warbler-song which ran up a chromatic scale clear above the 
range of the ordinary piano, on the syllable ‘‘S’ wee,” repeated 
every note. Dismounting from my wheel I hunted for this bird 
for some time, hearing, meanwhile, a few Pine warblers, and 
when finally I saw the unknown songster it took me a few 
moments to decide that it was not a brilliant coiored Pine warbler, 
and before I got to the point of shooting it, it vanished and I saw 
no more although I spent an hour hunting over a very smal! 
territory and heard at least two, if not four, of these strange 
songsters; so that I am quite confident that there was in 1905 a 
little breeding colony of Prairie warblers in this northern penin- 
sula when the next nearest to the south was probably 300 miles 
away in Ohio. During the investigation cf Point Pelee in Sep- 
tember of this year another of this species was taken there, the 
details of which have probably already appeared in Zhe Auk. 
THe WHITE-EYED VIREO ( Vireo noveboracensis), The cap- 
ture of a specimen of this bird at Woodstock on Apri 25, 1902, 
by Mr. W. D. Hobson was published in THE OrTTAwA NATURALIST 
. for November, 1902. Since then it appears that Mr. Kells re- 
ported to the Canadian Institute in 1891 the capture of one of 
these birds in the middle of October, 1890. The bird was badly 
damaged by shot and was not preserved and the identitification 
was made entirely by the color of the eyes and while it is quite 
likely that Mr. Kells is correct about the identification it can 
hardly be accepted as proven by this one point only. 
