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laga, from the 14th to the 25th of May, but like 

 the preceding one, I have not met with it in the 

 autumn, and as the latter end of the month of 

 August is generally cold, it is quite likely that these 

 flycatchers depart south before the month of Sep- 

 tember. 



Suborder Oscines. Song Birds. 



Family Alaudidce. Larks. 

 Genus Otocoris. Bonaparte. 



150. Horned Lark. (Shore Lark.) 0. alpestris. 

 (Linn.) 



" Transient Visitant," scarce. I shot five speci 

 mens of this species, out of about a dozen found 

 feeding, on the river ice-roads, in front of the city, 

 April 8, 1887 ; but since that time, I have not met 

 with them, in the spring of the year, and in the 

 autumn, only from October 20 to 26. Until the 

 year 1887, ornithologists here were not aware of 

 the existence of two species of Horned Larks occur- 

 ring at Montreal, and, of course, this species was 

 considered to be the one found breeding here ; but 

 since then we find the next species "praticola" a 

 summer resident, and " alpestris " a migrant only, 

 although I am inclined to believe that this species 

 did breed on the highlands above Hochelaga some 

 years ago. Mr. Kuetzing says that, some twenty 

 years past, the Skylark (Alauda arvensis, Linn.) 



