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knowing the gregarious instincts of birds during migrations and how often 
we find little groups of different species migrating together, that birds hav- 
ing lost their way and filled with the unrest of the migration season, would 
attach themselves to some such group or groups and with them appear in 
localities that alone and unguided they would never have found. Should 
the new habitat be congenial we should expect them to return over the 
same route unless they fell into the company of others of their kind and 
with them travel along the normal route of their species. 
Such at least appears to be the natural explanation of the phenomena 
under discussion and a glance at the map will show how feasible such a route 
is. From a point’ on the north shore of Lake Superior just east of the 
Nipigon the most natural way south without crossing the Greater Lakes 
would be just such a route as I have mapped out. Many undoubtedly cross 
to the Upper Peninsular at the Sault and come down the western shores 
of Lake Michigan through the lake counties of Wisconsin, but no con- 
clusive data on this movement are to be had for reasons given before. That 
none or but very few of these species continue across the straits of Mackinac 
and down through the Lower Peninsular is, however, quite evident. 
Certain facts gathered by the Isle Royal Survey seem to indicate a possi- 
ble migratory movement of some species across Lake Superior from that 
Island to Keweenaw Point, but that is only conjectural as yet and at any 
rate the rata do not warrant applying it to the species under consideration. 
Nelson’s Sparrow is an interesting example of a bird following this 
hyperlaken route and the case is typical and well marked. This species appears 
as a regular fall migrant at Erie, and spreads irregularly through the Atlantic 
states from North Carolina even up to Maine. It would seem as though 
this was a case where an accidental movement had been fixd as a per- 
manent habit by the continued success of the species concerned and gives 
us a hint of some of the factors that must be taken into consideration when 
we attempt to follow out Palmen’s law of migration in all cases. Should the 
original stock from which these Erie birds have sprung, from causes anywhere 
along their regular habitat, become extinct, these stray individuals might still 
survive, and with their strange migrations offer a most perplexing problem 
to some future student. 

It is always unpleasant to hear a friend’s name mispronounced, but in 
many cases the offender has:no possible way of knowing better. Therefore 
it may be of interest to some to know that Dr. Coues always pronounced his 
name is spelled “Cows,’ and Dr. Stejneger is called either “Stenneger” or 
“Stynegar”’ with the accent on the y—probably the latter is nost nearly cor- 
rect. Bendire is pronounced Bendyre not Bendear; and the late Percy 
Selous, an Englishman, pronounced his name Say-lod, as if French. 
