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One set of three eggs taken by Prof. Macoun, May 3rd, 1889, at 

 Hastings, B.C. 



CCVIII. CARDINALIS Bonaparte. 1837. 

 598. Cardinal, Red-bird. 



Cardinalis cardinalis (Linn.) Light. 1854. 



Two were seen, a male and a female at Scotch Lake, York Co., 

 N.B., Aug. 20th, 1900. (W. H. Moore?) The cardinal can only be 

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

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

 Macallum mentions that a few are seen every summer along the 

 lake shore soutji of Dunnville, where they are supposed to breed 

 among the evergreens. {Mcllwraith.) A fine male specimen of 

 this species in the museum of Toronto University is labelled 

 "Weston, Ontario," a northwestern suburb of Toronto. (Thompson- 

 Seton in Tram. Can. Institute^ Vol. L, p. 55, 1890.) 



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 living 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 description we concluded that it must be the cardinal 

 {Chrdinalis cardinalis), and sure enough, on the following day, we 

 secured one, a young male in moulting plumage. Twice after- 

 wards 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 w/ith 

 red cedar, and the weather in fall remaining mild longer than 

 on the mainland, on account of its proximity to tho lake, as is 

 evident by our having no frost during our stay, while on our 

 return we noticed the corn well bleached on the mainland. It is 



