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the Pennsylvania state line we must expect to find, coming 

 into the column and thickening in the same direction. In 

 no other waj' can we harmonize the three sections. 



THE LARK SPARROW, CHONDESTES GRAMMICUS 

 (Say) IN MAHONING COUNTY, OHIO. 



BY ERNEST W. VICKERS, ELLSWORTH, O. 



I observed a flock of three pairs of the Lark sparrow 

 or Lark Finch in Ellsworth throughout the summer of 1894. 



Writers differ considerably as to the range of this 

 species. Dr. Elliott Coues, in his " Kej^ to North American 

 Birds," says of it : " Abundant from the eastern edge of 

 the prairies, and even Iowa and Illinois, to the Pacific U. S.; 

 occasionally in Ohio, and stragglers have been taken in 

 Massachusetts and about Washington." Oliver Davie, in 

 "Nests and Eggs of North American Birds," gives its habi- 

 tat as follows: " Mississippi valley, west to the plains, east 

 to Ohio, north to Michigan and south to eastern Texas, 

 Louisiana, etc.; accidental near the coast." He notes no 

 nests or eggs for Ohio. Rev. J. H. Langille, in "Our Birds 

 in their Haunts," says: "It is a western species now found 

 as far east as Michigan." In his report on the "Birds of 

 Ohio," vol. IV, Geo. Survey, Zool. and Bot., Dr. J. M. 

 Wheaton gives the habitat of the Lark Finch as: " East to 

 middle Ohio; common summer residents from the last week 

 in April until August, less common in southern Ohio, not 

 known in northern Ohio." 



From the "straggling" qualities of this species it may 

 not be very surprising to meet with it this far from the middle 

 of the State, j'et is notable. A few specimens were observed 

 here and there in the county in 1893; but those of 1894 were 

 residents bevond a doubt. 



