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112. EMPIpONAX VIRESCENS (Vieillot). ACADIAN FLYCATCHER. (465) 
A fairly common summer resident. Arrives in Carroll County about the 
middle of May. Full sets of eggs by June 15. June 17, 1882. set of. three 
well incubated eggs; June 14, 1883, nest with two eggs and one of the 
cowbird, incubation begun; May 4, 1885, noted. This bird is one of the most 
frequent victims of the cowbird. 
In Monroe County arrives about the naa of April and is very com- 
mon during the summer. June 2, 1882, nest with one fresh egg at Wyandotte 
Cave. A partial albino taken at Sand Hill east of Terre Haute in June, 
1890. 
115. EMPIDONAX TRAILLI ALNORUM (Brewster). ALDER FLYCATCHER. (466a) 
Rather rare summer resident. Nest found June 10, 1SS5, near Camden. 
Five noted at Terre Haute May 3, and others May 5, 1888. 
114. EMPmpoNnAax MINIMUS (W. M. & S. Baird). 
LEAST FLYCATCHER. (467) 
Not very common summer resident in all the counties. 
Noted May 6, 1885, near Camden. 
115. OvTocoRIS ALPESTRIS PRATICOLA Henshaw. 
PRAIRIE HORNED LARK. (474b) 
Carroll County: I remember distinctly the first time I ever recognized 
this species. It was in December, 1877, when Mrs. Evermann, one of our 
young lady students, and I were spending a morning observing the birds 
along Deer Creek just below Camden. On the south side of the creek just 
below the Porter dam we saw several horned larks in a small enclosure 
where some hogs were being fed. Snow covered the ground nearly every- 
where and the shore larks had come to this place in search of food. 
Since that day I have noted this bird frequently in nearly all parts of 
Carroll County, most rarely in the southeastern part, most abundantly in 
Tippecanoe and Jefferson townships which are largely prairie. May 4, 1878, 
collected specimens at Camden; March 17, 1879, noted. I noted them fre- 
quently in March, April, and May, 1883. On January 5, 1884, (a very cold 
day, 380 degrees below zero), I saw a flock. During April and May they 
were common. On December 19. I saw several in Lenon’s hog-lot east 
of Camden. During the winter of 1884-5, they were moderately common. 
During March, 1885, they were pretty common. On December 12, 1916, 
while on an automobile trip with my nephew Claude Hawkins. from Russia- 
ville, through parts of Howard and Carroll counties, a great many shore 
larks were seen. They were in small companies from two or three to 20 
or more. They were feeding in the road and would fly up and out of 
the way only reluctantly as we came upon them. The ground was covered 
with snow and most of the trip was made in the teeth of a fine blizzard. 
Miss Evermann saw one in the road south of Burlington December 16, 1909, 
the only one she had seen up to that time. 
