i8go.] Chapman oii the Winter Distribution of the Bobolink. A^ 



gives the bird from British Guiana and this, with the Cayenne 

 record, seems to form the eastern limit of its range, there being, as 

 far as I know, no records for eastern Brazil or the lower Amazon, 

 while Darwin's record, already referred to, of a specimen taken 

 in October, 183^, on James Island in the Galapagoes, is the only 

 one with -which I am familiar from west of the Andes. Indeed 

 our bird's further wanderings seem now to be largely confined to 

 the eastern slope of this range of mountains and the head waters 

 of the Amazon, until it reaches what may be its true winter quar- 

 ters in southern or southwestern Brazil. Proceeding with our 

 records, we find a specimen mentioned by Sclater* from Merida, 

 about forty miles from the coast in Venezuela ; there is a speci- 

 men in the British Museumf from Bogota, and Sclater and SalvinJ 

 mention its occurrence at Antioquia. Selatei § also gives it from 

 the Rio Napo, and there are two specimens from this locality in 

 the American Museum collection, both adult males in spring 

 plumage. Cassin|| cites a specimen from the Rio Negro, and in 

 the British Museum Catalogue a specimen is mentioned from the 

 Rio Javari in eastern Ecuador. All these records are absolutely 

 without data and we may therefore welcome an exceedingly im- 

 portant and interesting note by Berlepsch,^[ who records the cap- 

 ture by Garlepp, of an adult male in fresh and unworn plumage, 

 at Tonantins on the upper Amazon, on May 6, 1S84, and also, in 

 the same locality, of a second specimen in female plumage but 

 without a label. From Paucotambo, in southern Peru, we have 

 a record by Sclater,** and the same author, in his Catalogue, || 

 mentions a specimen from Bolivia. In the American Museum 

 there is an adult male, taken March 1, 1886, by Smith at Corumba 

 Matto Grasso, while Nattererj j observed it in the same Province 

 in November. This collector also found it on the Madeira in 

 November ; at Maribitanas noted a single one on April 4, and 

 on the 13th saw a great flock of these birds in black plumage. 



* P. Z. S., 1870, p. 781. 



t Cat. Brit. Mus.,XI, p. 332. 



X P.Z.S., 1879, p. 509. 



§ Ibid., 1858, p. 72. 



||Proc. Phil. Acad. Sc, 1866, p. 16. 



H Journal fur Ornithologie, 1889, p. 99. 

 ** P.Z.S., 1876, p. 16. 

 ft Cat. Birds, 1862, p. 134. 

 \X Cf. Pelzeln, Orn. Brazil, iii, p. 199. 



