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ing flight but as he could not go very 

 far, T easily made him a prisoner. I 

 hoped very much that I could raise him 

 but he died in two or three days, al- 

 though I fed him butterflies, worms and 

 common house flies. He was exceed- 

 ingly noisy, mostly I think on account 

 of the lack of his mother's tender care; 

 for every two or three minutes during 

 the day he would give forth an utter- 

 ance which sounded something like 

 chee, chee, chee, (the same as when I 

 flushed him though faster and some- 

 what louder) continuing until he had 

 said it eight or nine times. A pair of 

 English Sparrows which had had a nest 

 of young near by came to the cage and 

 brought food to the young bird several 

 times. I secured two others later on 

 but they died also. 



Most writers give four as the number 

 of eggs deposited by this species, while 

 this is the number generally laid by 

 them, five are sometimes found. I was 

 for a time of the opinion that sets of 

 three would probably be taken late in 

 the season but Irom my observations 

 this year I find that sets of three are as 

 common at the first of the season as 

 sets of four. 



The earliest nest I have ever taken 

 was in the first week of May, while a 

 nest with three eggs was found on July 

 16th incubation far advanced; and 

 on August 3d, took two young from a 

 nest in a clover field, on hillside. From 

 this it stands to reason that two or thi'ee 

 broods are reared in one season. 



I know of only one article ttiat has 

 been published in your excellent jour- 

 nal on this species, and that was in 

 The Young Oulogist for October, 

 1884. Let us hear more on this inter- 

 esting and peculiar bird. 



H. Gould Welbokn, 

 Lexington, N. C. 



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The Homed Lark in Western New 

 York. 



{Otocoris alpestris.) 



The article in the May Oologist by 

 Mr. B. S. Bowdish regarding the status 

 of the Horned Lark [0. alpesiris) 

 and the Prairie Horned Lark {0. a. 

 pralicola) in Western New York, was 

 read with much interest by myself, and 

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