534 J. H. Fleming : 



Township (14), Newton County, on the 31st, and at Pickard 

 (14) as early as the 10th (?) All these Indiana records are of 

 birds found in open fields or on the roadside alive and far 

 from water ; they mark the extreme western limit of the 

 migration, and the furthest point reached during any re- 

 corded flight — fully 225 miles from Lake Erie ; the most 

 northern point in Indiana reached, is quite 50 miles south of 

 Lake Michigan, from which lake no birds were recorded. 

 Of the flight that struck north from Lake Erie, one bird 

 was reported at Menton, Michigan (28), and on the Detroit 

 River were reported below Detroit (23) ; on the 19th they 

 were at Gibraltar, 15 miles below Detroit (22) ; as late as 

 the 26th j>art of the birds were able to pass Detroit, and, 

 entering Lake St. Clair, were reported at the St. Clair Flats. 



A very interesting" record is from Port Sydney (23), near 

 Muskoka, in Ontario, where Mr. A. Kay found a bird alive 

 on December 18th. Lake Muskoka is about 120 miles north 

 of Lake Ontario, and 30 miles east of the Georgian Bay, and 

 in view of the birds being reported at Mattawa on the Ottawa, 

 it seems likely that the Port Sydney bird reached there by 

 way of the French Piver, Lake ÜSTipissing, and the Georgian 

 Bay. 



This migration was a much more restricted one, both in 

 numbers and range, and seems to have been confined to the 

 waters tributary to the St. Lawrence. 



The first report is from Ottawa. Mr. White says, 

 December 11th: "Large flocks were seen flying up the 

 Ottawa Piver and over the city, flocks of from 10 to 100 ; 

 the flight continued until the 13th ; it was nice weather, 

 with easterly winds." The next record is of a bird taken at 

 the town of Parry Sound (29) on the Georgian Bay about 

 the 12th, and there is a record of uncertain date from 

 Beaumauris on Lake Muskoka. On Lake Ontario they 

 appeared in small numbers at Toronto, and on December 

 14th Mr. Samuel says, "One was taken in quite good con- 

 dition; stomach empty." On the 20th they were reported 



