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Parkhill records it as nesting in Cornwall, Vermont. On the 4th of June, 

 1891, my brother observed two of these birds haunting an old field in the 

 town of Franconia, New Hampshire. The number was afterwards aug- 

 mented by what were doubtless the second-brood young. He saw them 

 near the same spot as late as the 21st of July. Mr. J. B. Grimes, an intel- 

 ligent observer of birds in North Adams, Massachusetts, informs me that 

 the Prairie Horned Lark breeds in North Adams and Williamstown at the 

 base of the Saddleback Mountain range and he has shown me two speci- 

 mens killed there the last of March, 1890, and the 13th of April, 1891 — 

 the breeding season of the bird in this latitude. — Walter Faxon, Mu- 

 seum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass. 



The Prairie Horned Lark in Northeastern Pennsylvania. — I shot a 

 typical specimen of Otocoris alpestris ^raticola, June 12, 1891, at Athens, 

 Bradford Co., Pennsylvania. Another of the same species accompanied 

 it. Mr. W. K. Park had informed me that a few were to be found every 

 summer in the vicinity, and that he thought he could show me some. 

 He was as good as his word, and the breeding range of this species in 

 Pennsylvania must now be extended much further eastward than the 

 character of the country would indicate. — Jonathan Dwight, Jr., Netv 

 York City. 



A Correction. — In my paper on Molothrtis (Auk, 1S91, p. 344) an unfort- 

 unate printer's error in the key to the species is liable to perplex anyone 

 using it in the determination of specimens. M. cabanisii is there placed 

 under the division '^,' while it should be placed under division M' as a 

 third subdivision, and should bear the heading, 'c' instead of '3' as 

 printed. — Witmer Stone, Academy of Natural Scietices, Philadelphia. 



Some Bird Notes from Litchfield, Connecticut. — Strix pratincola. — On 

 the 28th of August, 1891, a Barn Owl was shot while flying over a small 

 pond near the village, at dusk. This is a rare bird in Connecticut, and 

 it is apparently the first record for this part of the State. It is now in my 

 collection. 



Turdus aonalaschkae pallasii. — I have recorded, on July 2', two birds 

 flying along the Bantam, — a good-sized brook near the village, — one of 

 which on being shot proved to be a young Hermit Thrush in the speckled 

 plumage. The date and markings suggest the probablity that it was one 

 of a brood reared in the neighborhood. 



Cistothorus stellaris. — The occurrence in this locality of this species, 

 breeding seems also worthy of note. 



Geothlypis agilis was present in unusually large numbers between Sep- 

 tember 18 and October 5. I have no record of it for this part of the State 

 prior to this fall, but between the above dates I met with from one to four 

 alrnost daily, which numbers, considering the extreme shyness manifested 

 by them, would indicate comparative abundance. — ^Lewis B. Woodruff, 

 Nezv York City. 



