AVERY BIRD COLLECTION 69 
108. EMPIDONAX VIRESCENS (Vieillot). 
ACADIAN FLYCATCHER. 
“Common. Summer resident. Breeds.” (1891a). 
After recording an adult female taken at Greensboro, 
May 25, 1889, the Doctor noted: “This bird was incubat- 
ing. Nest of gray moss in a shag-bark tree, 12 ft. from 
ground; nest suspended by the rim; shallow.” 
No. 548. Male. Greensboro. July 22, 1890. W. C. Avery. 
No. 549. Female. Greensboro. July 22, 1890. W. C. Avery. 
No. 573. Male. Greensboro. Aug. 14, 1890. W. C. Avery. 
No. 597. Male. Greensboro. Aug. 22, 1890. W. C. Avery. 
No. 666. Female. Greensboro. Sept. 11, 1890. W. C. Avery. 
No. 696. .Male. Greensboro. Sept. 23, 1890. W. C. Avery. 
No. 705. Female. Greensboro. Sept. 25, 1890. W. C. Avery. 
No. 920. Female. Greensboro. Sept. 10, 1891. Ws C. Avery. 
109. OCTOCORIS ALPESTRIS ALPESTRIS (Linnzus). 
HORNED LARK. 
“Only two notes can be found in Dr. Avery’s catalogues 
concerning this species. These follow: 
“No. 1012 (listed below was captured from a small 
flock of six horned larks, form known as prairie; they 
were feeding in the snow not forty steps from the Greens- 
boro depot. The very cold weather of the season must 
account for the presence of the horned lark so far 
south.” 
“A flock of about a dozen prairie horned larks was 
seen on the 20th and six of them were captured within 
fifty yards of the Greensboro station.” (This note fol- 
lowed the entry of No. 1012, listed below.) 
It will be seen that the Doctor considered all these 
specimens representatives of the form praticola, but Mr. 
Oberholser of the U. S. Biological Survey refers them to 
alpestris. 
No. 1012. Male. Greensboro. Jan. 19, 18993. W. C. Avery. 
No. 1013. Female. Greensboro. Jan. 20, 1893. W. C. Avery. 
No. 1014. Male. Greensboro. Jan. 20, 18938. W. C. Avery. 
No. 1015. Male. Greensboro. Jan. 20, 18938. W. C. Avery. 
No. 1016. Female. Greensboro. Jan. 20, 1893. W. C. Avery. 
No. 1017. Male. Greensboro. Jan. 20, 1893. W. C. Avery. 
