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Taken at Beauport; a migrant in Quebec. (Dionne.) A transient 
visitant at Montreal; scarce. I shot five specimens of this species 
out of about a dozen found feeding on the river ice-roads in front of 
the city, April 8, 1887, but since that time have not met with them, 
in the spring of the year; in the autumn only from October 20-26th. 
(Wintle.) The horned larks of the Ottawa district were for the first 
time satisfactorily determined and distinguished in the spring of 1890. 
This species arrived April roth and remained together in flocks till 
May 25th, when it departed; it was again present in the fall from 
September 26th to October 28th. (Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) 
Formerly common at Toronto; Mr. Lamb of Toronto has a speci- 
men taken at Gravenhurst in Muskoka district. (J. H. Fleming.) 
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.) Exceeding rare; two specimens 
taken by Mr. J. Keays in December, 1899, are intermediate between 
this species and the var. leucolema. (W. E. Saunders.) 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 4, 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. Apri] 
8, 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 my- 
self this was the nest of the true alpestris I got up early next morning 
and shot the parent, which proved to be alpestris and not praticola; 
the eggs, like the bird, are one-third larger than those of praticola, 
Port Hope, Ontario, March, 29, 1900, Mr Meeking. found a nest con- 
taining four eggs of this specie, and on April 13th he found another 
set of three, and on April 28, 1900, 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 
