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beyond Maryland, or the lower parts of Kentucky, west of 

 the Alleghany mountains, and he saw but one in Louisiana. 

 Pennant, in his Arctic Zoology, states that in very severe 

 weather these birds reach Virginia and Carolina. Mr. Bullock 

 found them on the table-land of Mexico. 



Pursuing our bird in North America, Dr. Richardson says, 

 that it " arrives in the fur-countries along with the Lapland 

 Bunting, with which it associates, and being a shyer bird, is 

 the sentinel, and alarms the flock on the approach of danger. 

 It retires to the marshy and woody eastern districts to breed, 

 extending its range to the shores of the Arctic Sea. Mr. 

 Hutchins states that its nest is placed on the ground, and 

 that it lays four or five white eggs, spotted with black. 11 

 They appear on the shores of Hudson's Bay in May, and 

 proceed from thence still further north to breed. We are 

 indebted to Mr. Audubon for the best account of the habits 

 of this bird during summer, the most interesting period of 

 its existence. In one of those arduous voyages which this 

 indefatigable naturalist undertook to complete his Ornitho- 

 logical Biography of North America, this bird was found on 

 the shores of the coast of Labrador, and its various peculi- 

 arities are thus described.* 



" Although in the course of our previous rambles along 

 the coast of Labrador, and among the numberless islands 

 that guard its shores, I had already seen this Lark while 

 breeding, never before that day did I so much enjoy its 

 song, and never before I reached this singular spot, had I 

 to add to my pleasures that of finding its nest. Here I 

 found the bird in the full perfection of plumage and song, 

 and here I had an opportunity of studying its habits, which 

 I will now endeavour to describe." 



" The Shore Lark breeds on the high and desolate tracts 



* Ornithological Biography, vol. ii. p. 570. 



