rtcvu-rf!jsicl>> ^ J/inras /ittrtia. 
$ • ^3 • 
To these may be added a female Cardinal 
Grosbeak, shot February, 1871, at Hali- 
fax thermometer 14 degrees below zero 
very fat and lively 
Ce s- (?• V//- aA-caaj, / 1 : /srgr^.^.. j£ % 
The Cardinal an Established Resident of Ontario. — In September I 
spent four days, 17th to 21st, in company with my cousin, Mr. H. H. 
Keays at Point Pelee, collecting. Nearly every evening 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 com- 
plicated 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 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 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 remaining mild in fall longer than on the 
mainland, on account of its proximity to the lake, as is evident by our 
having no frost during our stay, while on our return we noted the corn 
well bleached on the mainland. 
It is to be hoped, however, that it will not restrict its range to the point 
nor to the shores of lake Erie in Ontario, as this bright plumaged bird 
will make an acceptable addition to our fauna. 
Dr. McCallum says a few of this species are seen along the lake shore 
every summer near Dunnville (Mclllwraith ‘Birds of Ontario ’). 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 swamp a mile from London, Nov. 30, 1896, this 
being the first record for Middlesex County, and which is made complete, 
as far as I am able to ascertain, by a second taken at Kilworth by Mr. 
John Thompson, Nov. 17, 1899, both these birds being males. The Rev. 
C. L. Scott reports one shot near Aylmer, Elgin County, about October, 
1900. From Guelph one is reported by Mr. F. N. Beattie as spending the 
winter of 1899 around his place. Other reports come from Chatham and 
Rond Eau, all of single specimens and apparently stragglers. — J. E. 
Keays, London, Ont. Auk, XIX, April., 1902, p/> . Za S' - 3 . 0 C. 
220 . Cardinalis cardinalis. Cardinal. — Accidental and probably 
occurs only in winter; there are several local records but two only have 
dates, a female taken in February, 1900 , and a male seen in November, 1902 . 
I& 
