354 Proceedings of Indiana Academy of Science. 



112. EmPIUONAX VIKESCENS (Vieillot). ACADIAN FrA'CATCHER. (465) 



A fairly coiuiuoii siinmier rcsidt'iit. Arrives iii Carroll County about the 

 middle of May. Full sets of eggs by June 15. June 17, 1882, set of three 

 well incubated eggs ; June 14, 1S83, nest with two eggs and one of the 

 cowbird, incubation begun ; May 4, 1885, noted. This bird is one of the most 

 frequent victims of the cowbird. 



In Monroe County arrives about the middle of April and is very com- 

 mon during the summer. June 2, 1882, nest with one fresh egg at Wyandotte 

 Cave. A partial albino taken at Sand Hill east of Terre Haute in June, 

 1890. 



113. EmPIDONAX TRAILLI ALNORUM (Brewster). ALDER FLYCATCHER. (4r)6a) 



Kather rare summer resident. Nest found June 10, 1885, near Camden. 

 Five noted at Terre Haute May 3, and others May 5, 1888. 



114. Empidonax minimus (W. M. & S. F. Baird). 



LEAST FLYCATCHER. (467) 



Not very common summer resident in all the counties. 

 Noted May 6, 1885, near Camden. 



115. Otocoris alpestris praticola Henshaw. 



PRAIRIE HORNED LARK. (474b) 



Gail oil County: I remember distinctly the first time I ever recognized 

 this species. It was in December, 1877. when Mrs. Evermann, one of our 

 young lady students, and I were spending a morning observing the birds 

 along Deer Creek just below Camden. On the south side of the creek just 

 below the Porter dam we saw several horned larks in a small enclosure 

 where some hogs were being fed. Snow covered the ground nearly every- 

 where and the shore larks had come to this place in search of food. 



Since that day I have noted this bird frequently in nearly all parts of 

 Carroll County, most rarely in the southeastern part, most abundantly in 

 Tippecanoe and Jefferson townships which are largely prairie. May 4. 1878, 

 collected specimens at Camden ; March 17, 1879, noted. I noted them fre- 

 quently in March. April, and May, 1883. On January 5, 1884, (a very cold 

 day, 30 degrees below zero), I saw a flock. During April and May they 

 were common. On December 19, I saw several in Lenon's hog-lot east 

 of Camden. During the winter of 1884-5, they were moderately common. 

 During March, 1885, they w^ere pretty common. On December 12. 1910, 

 while on an automobile trip with my nephew Claude Hawkins, from Russia- 

 ville, through parts of Howard and Carroll counties, a great many shore 

 larks were seen. They were in small companies from two or three to 20 

 or more. They were feeding in the road and would fly up and out of 

 the way only reluctantly as we came upon them. The ground was covered 

 wdth snow and most of the trip was made in the teeth of a fine blizzard. 

 Miss Evermann saw one in the road south of Burlington December 16, 1909, 

 the only one she had seen up to that time. 



