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son's possession." It is not impossible that this was an es- 

 caped cage-bird. 



There can be no doubt that this belongs to the extinct 

 species of the state. 



ORDER PASSERES. Perching Birds. 

 Family ALAUDID^E. Larks. 



3. (473.) ALAUDA ARVENSIS Linn, [unnumbered] 



Skylark. 



Synonym: European Skylark. 

 Langdon, Journal Gin. Soc. Nat Hist., I, 1878, 111. 



The first attempt to introduce this European species into 

 the state was by a Mr. Bateham in the autumn of 1851, 

 when a cage of them was liberated in the grove back of the 

 Lunatic Asylum, Cincinnati. Colonel Harris stated that 

 these shortly disappeared. Another more successful attempt 

 seems to have been made during the seventies, since Dr. 

 Langdon, in his list of 1878, states that they had been found 

 breeding in the outskirts of Cincinnati. This colony must 

 have disappeared shortly after Dr. Langdon's list was pub- 

 lished, for nothing more was known about them when Dr. 

 Wheaton published his catalogue in 1882. Skylarks are un- 

 known in the state now. 



Family FRINGILLID^:. Sparrows, etc. 



4. CARDUELIS CARDUELIS (Linn.). . 



Goldfinch. 



Synonyms: Fringilla carduelis. 



European Goldfinch, Thistlefinch. 

 Langdon, Journal Gin. Soc. Nat. Hist., IV, 1881, 342. 



Introduced at Cincinnati during the years 1872-4. Ap- 

 parently they did not thrive, since nothing has been heard 

 from them since their introduction. 



