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and fired. On taking lier in ray hand I found that 
I held a somewhat mangled Connecticut Warbler. 
These birds were both extremely fat, so that it 
was difficult to skin them, and quite impossible to 
make satisfactory specimens of them. The first 
bird proved to be a female, the other was so in- 
jured by shot that I could not determine the sex. 
So short a study does not give one a very full 
knowledge of their habits, but so much I learned, 
that in autumn they seek for food on the ground, 
in open land, but near some covert into which 
they hasten when alarmed, that they are very 
restless at such times, yet conceal themselves care- 
fully and still manifest considerable curiosity 
toward an intruder and are silent. In the spring 
they may appear very differently. 
O.&O. XI. Mar . 18 8 6. p. -/yj-Vy. 
Last Dates of Migratory Birds Ob- 
served in the Fall of 1885 , at Mon- 
treal and Vicinity, Canada. 
ERNEST D. WINTLE, MONTUF.AT,. 
Ana 
Sept. 
i, 
8 , 
9 , 
15, 
16, 
17 , 
22 , 
28, 
29, 
5, 
12 , 
15, 
17, 
19, 
26, 
Oct. 10, 
11 , 
18,. 
Nov. 
25, 
31, 
11 , 
Indigo Bird. 
Chipping Sparrow. 
Tyrant Flycatcher, Summer Warbler. 
Catbird, Red-bellied Nuthatch, Barn 
Swallow, White-bellied Swallow. 
Purple Marlin. 
Baltimore Oriole. 
Red-eyed Vlrco,Bhtek-and- White Cheep- 
er, and Sharp -shinned Hawk. 
Niglithawk. 
Redstart, and Olive-sided Flycatcher. 
Chimney Swift, Black-hilled Cuckoo. 
Golden-crowned Thrush, and Yellow- 
bellied Woodpecker. 
Wild Pigeon. 
Cedar Bird, Golden-Winged Woodpeck- 
er, Purple Grackle, and Broad- 
winged Buzzard. 
Wood Pewee, Pine-creeping Warbler. 
Yellow-bellied Flycatchel and White, 
throated Sparrow. 
Wilson’s Thrush, Pigeon Hawk, Yel- 
low-rumped Warbler, and Black- 
throated Green Warbler. 
Goldfinch, and Winter Wren. 
Song Sparrow, Downy Woodpecker, 
Black-capped Chickadee, \ Purple 
Finch, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Her- 
mit Thrush, Blue Jay, White-bellied 
Nuthatch, Great Horned Owl, Pine 
Linnet, and Wilson’s Snipe. 
Wilson’s Snowbird. 
Robin, and Brown Creeper. 
Hairy Woodpecker. 
