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son’s possession.” It is not impossible that this was an es- 
caped cage-bird. 
There can be no doubt that this belongs to the extinct 
species of the state. 
OrpDER PASSERES. Perching Birds. 
Family ALaupip&. Larks. 
3. (473.) ALAUDA ARVENSIS Linn. [unnumbered] 
Skylark. 
Synonym: European Skylark. 
Langdon, Journal Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., I, 1878, 111. 
The first attempt to introduce this European species into 
the state was by a Mr. Bateham in the autumn of 1851, 
when a cage of them was liberated in the grove back of the 
Lunatic Asylum, Cincinnati. Colonel Harris stated that 
these shortly disappeared. Another more successful attempt 
seems to have been made during the seventies, since Dr. 
Langdon, in his list of 1878, states that they had been found 
breeding in the outskirts of Cincinnati. This colony must 
have disappeared shortly after Dr. Langdon’s list was pub- 
lished, for nothing more was known about them when Dr. 
Wheaton published his catalogue in 1882. Skylarks are un- 
known in the state now. 
Family FRINGILLIDA. Sparrows, etc. 
4. CARDUELIS CARDUELIS (Linn.). —. 
Goldfinch. 
Synonyms: Fringilla carduelis. 
European Goldfinch, Thistlefinch. 
Langdon, Journal Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., IV, 1881, 342. 
Introduced at Cincinnati during the years 1872-4. Ap- 
parently they did not thrive, since nothing has been heard 
from them since their introduction. 
