1904I The Hokned Lark. 203 



According to a collection made in southwestern Ontario, in 

 1901, by Prof. John Macoun, the following species occur there : 



A. NEODioiCA, Greene, Pitt, iii, 184. This was obtained on 

 Cedar Creek near Leamington, 3 June, in good condition, but 

 only the pistillate plant. 1 have seen no specimens before from 

 anv point so far westward. 



A. MESOCHOKA, Greene, Pitt, v, iii. The type specimens of 

 this western-midland species being from southern Michigan, and 

 the plant being common over quite an extensive range, it was to 

 have been expected from western Ontario lying so closely adjacent 

 to southern Michigan; and Mr. Macoun's numbers 26,198 and 

 26,19 j represent well this species, the former being from Point 

 Edward on Lake Huron, the latter near Leamington on Lake 

 Erie. 



Washington, D.C., Feby, 1904. 



THE HORNED LARK. 



( Octocoris (ilpestris pratincola. ) 



The horned lark has arrived this year, in spite oi the cold and 

 depth of snow, about its usual tmie in North Frontenac. Yester- 

 day (Feb. 26th) 1 saw a small flock of six on the road. 



Last year (1903) I first obssrved it on February nth, five; 

 and the nest with young birds on April 20lh, just hatched. 



In 1902, on March 4th ; and the nest with young, just 

 hatched, on April 17th. 



There has been a large migration of pine grosbeaks this 



winter ; I have seen many flocks. They came early ; I first saw 



them on November 4th. 



C. J. Y 



