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Taken at Beaviport ; a migrant in Quebec. (Dionne.) A transient 

 visitant at Montreal; scarce. I shot five specimens 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 have not met with them, 

 in the spring of the year; in the autumn only from October 20-2 6th. 

 {Wintle.) The horned larks of the Ottawa district were for the first 

 time satisfactorily determined and distinguished in the spring of 1890. 

 This species arrived April 19th and remained together in flocks till 

 May 25th, when it departed; it Avas again present in the fall from 

 September 26th to October 28th. {Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) 

 Formerly common at Toronto; Mr. Lamb of Toronto has a speci- 

 men taken at Gravenhurst in Muskoka district. (/. H. Fleming.) 

 The typical horned lark is commonly met with along the St. Lawrence 

 below Kingston in the winter and spring, and I think in the month 

 of September. (Rev. C. J. Young.) Exceeding rare ; two specimens 

 taken by Mr. J. Keays in December, 1899, are intermediate between 

 this species and the var. leiicolcema. {W. E. Saunders.) Some 

 winters large flocks of shore larks visit Kew beach, Toronto, and a 

 few pairs occasionally remain and nest here early in April, but of 

 course this is exceptional as the summer home of this bird is further 

 north around the gulf of St. Lawrence and Labrador. Toronto, 

 March 4, 1900, as I sat writing at my desk flocks of shore larks kept 

 passing in front of the window, and some settling on the road in 

 front of my house. I put a cartridge in my gun and walking to 

 the front door shot three birds with one discharge. Few can boast 

 of shooting horned larks from the doorway of their homes. April 

 8, 1900, Mr. Winton Thompson, of Kew beach, took me to a nest 

 of the horned lark he had found; it contained three eggs and the 

 bird had begun to sit although the ground had patches of snow 

 around the nest, and the nights were cold. In order to satisfy my- 

 self this was the nest of the true alpestris I got up early next morning 

 and shot the parent, which proved to be alpestris and not praticola; 

 the eggs, like thejbird, are one-third larger than those oi praticola^ 

 Port Hope, Ontario, March, 29, 1900, Mr Sleeking, found a nest con- 

 taining four eggs of this specie, and on April 13th he found another 

 set of three, and on April 28, 1900, he found another set of four eggs 

 at the same place. These ^sets collected at Port Hope are now in 

 my collection, and the eggs from all the nests average larger than 

 those of the prairie horned lark collected by me on Toronto island 



