1911] The Ottawa Naturalist 123 



Unfortunately the geographical races of Horned Larks are 

 so closely allied that it is almost impossible to tell one from 

 another in nature, and it is only by studying their habits that 

 we can hope to distinguish them. 



Hoyt's Horned Lark has been recorded by me for several 

 years past under " Desert Horned Lark," which has not yet been 

 authentically taken in the province. Both these birds occur 

 in Saskatchewan and Alberta, and the latter, according to Ober- 

 holser, breeds north of latitude 49. 



Norman Criddle. 



Festuca occidentalis in Ontario. In an open coniferous 

 formation on a rocky point at Oliphant, Ontario, on the Lake 

 Huron shore of the Bruce Peninsula on June 14th, 1911, I found 

 Festuca occidentalism Hook, to be common. On June 16th, I 

 found the same species in a Popirius-Thuja formation near Boat 

 Lake at the centre of the Base of the Peninsula. 



As this species was not reported from further east than 

 Keweenaw County, Michigan, its discovery on the Bruce Pen- 

 insula was an eastward extension of range and I consequently 

 sent specimens to Prof. A. S. Hitchcock, Systematic Agrostologist 

 of the Bureau of Plant Industry at Washington, who confirmed 

 my identification. The occurrence of this western grass on the 

 Peninsula is interesting in view of the fact that I have found a 

 somewhat marked western and southern tendency in the flora 

 of this locality, particularly on the Lake Huron shore. Here are 

 found Solidago riddellii, Frank, Cacalia tuberosa, Nutt, Linum 

 medium, Britton, Satureja glabra, Fernald and Gentiana procera, 

 Holm, all plants whose range lies mostly to the south and west 

 of Ontario. I have already recorded (Rhodora, Vol. 10, No. 

 119). the occurrence on the Peninsula of another western grass 

 Melica smifhii, Vasey. 



A. B. Klugh, Queen's University, 



Kingston. 



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