88 THE BIRDS OF MONTREAL. 



Ranger's residence, as I observed a few there June 

 25, 1887. I have observed the bobolink here from 

 May 19 to September 9, and on the latter date in 

 1891 Mr. Inglis shot one out of a small flock along 

 the creek at Laprairie. I am under the impression 

 that I have seen some in the same locality till the 

 middle of October, whi^h is late in the season for 

 these birds to be here, as the bulk of them depart 

 south in the month of August. Those observed in 

 the month of September were all in the yellowish 

 fall plumage, like the female bird in summer plum- 

 age. I shot a male specimen June 2, 1888, at 

 Hochelaga,- in different plumage to the male birds 

 at that time of the year. Bill, bluish slate color ; 

 tarsus and toes, brownish ; the underparts from chin 

 to undertail coverts, speckled with black and yel- 

 lowish green ; forehead and crown, blackish, varie- 

 gated with brown and a small grayish patch in the 

 centre of crown ; the occiput and hind-neck, bufty, 

 shaded with brown ; back streaked with black, 

 brown and grayish-white ; scapulars, grayish-white; 

 wing coverts, brown, edged with grayish- white ; 

 primaries and secondaries of a brownish color, edged 

 with gray ; rump, greenish-gray, becoming lighter 

 on upper tail coverts ; tail feathers darker, but edged 

 with ash-gray. This specimen did not appear to be 

 a young bird when 'I skinned it. Mr. Ridgway 

 does not describe the young of the bobolink in his 

 " Manual of North American Birds," but, strange 



