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ing.) 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.) Specimens of the true 
alpestris were taken by myself at Rat Portage and at Carberry in the 
fall. ( Zhompson-Seton.) Exceeding rare; twospecimens taken by Mr. 
J. Keays in December, 1899, are intermediate between this species 
and the var. /eucolema. (W.E. Saunders.) Abundant everywhere 
on the bleakest and most exposed hillsides in northeastern 
Labrador. So far as I could determine, all the horned larks 
observed belonged to this race. (Szgelow.) 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 
4th, 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 8th, 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 myself this was the nest of the true a/pestris I got up early 
next morning and shot the parent, which proved to be algestris and 
not praticola, the eggs like the bird are one-third larger than those 
of praticola. Port Hope, Ontario, March 29th, 1900, Mr. Meeking 
found a nest containing four eggs of this species, and on April 
13th he found another set of three and on April 28th, rg00, 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 and in Manitoba. (W. 
Raine.) We have one specimen of the species taken at Ottawa, 
May 15th, 1890, by W. E. Saunders. A specimen taken at Resolu- 
tion Island, near Davis Strait in June, 1885, by Dr. R. Bell has 
some characters of /ewco/ema but is placed here. 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
Two undoubted specimens of this species taken on Hudson 
Bay by Mr. A. P. Low; and the two mentioned immediately 
above. 
