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evidently breeding-, as indicated by their actions wlien they flew from point to 

 point, but always out of range, and returning to the place whence they started. 

 At the mouth of George's River (Ungava Bay) I procured a single bird of tlu-ee 

 which I found among the mosses of a dry, level tract near the seashore. In 

 the vicinit)' of Fort Chimo these birds are common in the spring migration 

 only, arriving- just after the middle of May and remaining until the middle of 

 September. They scatter over the treeless tracts and l)reed near the coast. 

 Several specimens were procured near the mouth of the Koksoak River, and of 

 these some had the abdomen quite denuded of feathers, proving them to be 

 incubating in the latter ten days of June. I could not find the eggs and nest, 

 although on several occasions I had every reason to siispect I was quite near 

 them. I have never heard these bii'ds make an attempt at song; the only note 

 ever heard was a chirp, rather easily imitated, but difficult to describe." 



Mr. pj. A. Mcllhenn^' has kindh' furnished me with the following- notes on 

 this species: 



"I found this bird breeding quite commonly on the Labrador coast at Cape 

 Charles and vicinity, during my stay there from the 17th to the 22d of July, 

 1894. On the afternoon of the ITtli, while in search of specimens on the high, 

 rocky islands around Cape Charles Harbor, I saw two paii's of these birds, and. 

 as they showed great uneasiness at my presence, I ccmcluded they were nesting- 

 near by, but a long search failed to reveal their nests. The next morning, ])y 

 sunrise, I was on the island where I had seen the first pair, and, after walking 

 around the place where I had observed the birds the evening before Avithout 

 seeing anything, I fired my gun, when a short distance off to my right up gt)t 

 a bird, which I promptly sliot, and upon going to the place it flew from I 

 found the nest without any trouble. The bird proved to be a female Horned 

 Lark. The nest was embedded in a slightly inclining bank of moss and entirely 

 below the surface of the moss; it contained five richly marked eggs, slightlj' 

 incubated. When I found the nest it gave me the impression of being Aery 

 small for the bird; but tliis was due to the fact that the entrance was small, and 

 the hollow was enlarged under the moss. The nest was deeply cupped, luiAing 

 a thickness of about 1 inch of fine dry grass; it was lined with the down fi-cmi 

 reindeer moss and the white feathers of Ptannigans. The male bird did not 

 come around. 



"Later in the day I found another nest containing five heavily incubated 

 eggs. Tlie nest and position were very similar to the (»ne found in the nioniing. 

 Subsequently I found these birds niimerous on the mainland, l)ut no more of 

 their nests were obtained. On September 2, while at Henly Harbor, Labrador, 

 I found a deserted nest of this species containing- three eggs. The nest was 

 l»laced on a little knoll, in a marshy spot, on the bank of a small lake. On 

 August 10, 11, and U! I saw Horned Larks near Sukkertoppen, Gi'eenland, but 



did not get a specimen; I sup[)ose the}- belong-ed to this species."^ 



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'No measurements of the eggs of this species taken by Mr. Mcllbeuiiy can be given, as lie lost his 

 entire collection of specimens by the foimtlering of tbc ill-fated steamer Miranda, while returning from 

 Greenland. 



