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regarded as a casual visitor along our southwestern border. Mr. 

 Norval reports one or two being found near Port Rowan and Dr. 

 Maccallum mentions that a few are seen every summer along the 

 lake shore south of DunnvUle, where they are supposed to breed 

 among the evergreens. {Mcllvjraith!) A fine male specimen of 

 this species in the museum of Toronto University is labelled "Weston, 

 Ontario," a northwestern suburb of Toronto. {E. T. Seton in Trans. 

 Can. Institute, Vol. I., p. 55, 1890.) Mr. Moore's identification is 

 piobably incorrect. The birds seen by him were almost certainly 

 the summer tanager. 



In September I spent four days, 17th to 21st, in company with 

 my cousin Mr. H. H. Keays, at Point Pelee, collecting. Nearly 

 every day of our stay the fishermen gathered around our camp 

 fire, apparently much interested in us as strangers, and in our 

 work. After telling us of the strange birds they had seen on the 

 point (their descriptions of which were usually too complicated for 

 us to make more than a guess at the species) one of them asked 

 us of a bird that made its appearance about four years ago and 

 had since been quite common, stating that it was a splendid whistler, 

 and that an old lady hving in the vicinity had caught a number of 

 them and sold them for cage birds, catching them in a cage trap 

 and using the first one taken as a decoy for more. From his des- 

 cription we concluded that it must be the cardinal {Cardinalis 

 cardinalis), and sure enough, on the following day, we secured one, 

 a young male in moulting plumage. Twice afterwards we heard 

 near our camp, just at dawn, the call note of what we decided 

 must have been this bird. Without doubt the cardinal has come 

 to stay at Point Pelee, nor could they select a more suitable place, 

 the cape being quite plentifully covered with red cedar, and the 

 weather in fall remaining mild longer than on the mainland, on 

 account of its proximity to the lake, as is evident by otu: having 

 no frost during oiu- stay, while on our return we noticed the com 

 well bleached on the mainland. It is to be hoped, ho.wever, that 

 it wiU not restrict its range to the point nor to the shore of Lake 

 Erie in Ontario, as this bright plumaged bird wUl make an acceptable 

 addition to our fauna. Inland, we have but few records of stragglers, 

 which in the vicinity of London are as follows: One shot at St. 

 Thomas, spring of 1890, by Mr. O. Foster; one taken in a cedar 

 wamp a mile from London, November 30th, 1896, this being the 



