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108. EMPIDONAX VIRESCENS (Vieillot). 

 ACADIAN FLYCATCHER. 



"Common. Summer resident. .Breeds." (1891a). 



After recording an adult female taken at Greensboro, 

 May 25, 1889, the Doctor noted : "This bird was incubat- 

 ing. Nest of gray moss in a shag-bark tree, 12 ft. from 

 ground; nest suspended by the rim; shallow." 



No. 548. Male. Greensboro. July 22, 1890. W. C. Avery. 



No. 549. Female. Greensboro. July 22, 1890. W. C. Avery. 



No. 573. Male. Greensboro. Aug. 14, 1890. W. C. Avery. 



No. 597. Male. Greensboro. Aug. 22, 1890. W. C. Avery. 



No. 666. Female. Greensboro. Sept. 11, 1890. W. C. Avery. 



No. 6<>6. Male. Greensboro. Sept. 23, 1890. W. C. Avery. 



No. 705. Female. Greensboro. Sept. 25, 1890. W. C. Avery. 



No. 920. Female. Greensboro. Sept. 10, 1891. W. C. Avery. 



109. OCTOCORIS ALPESTRIS ALPESTRIS (Linnseus). 

 HORNED LARK. 



"Only two notes can be found in Dr. Avery's catalogues 

 concerning this species. These follow: 



"No. 1012 (listed below was captured from a small 

 flock of six horned larks, form known as prairie; they 

 were feeding in the snow not forty steps from the Greens- 

 boro depot. The very cold weather of the season must 

 account for the presence of the horned lark so far 

 south." 



"A flock of about a dozen prairie horned larks was 

 seen on the 20th and six of them were captured within 

 fifty yards of the Greensboro station." (This note -fol- 

 lowed the entry of No. 1012, listed below.) 



It will be seen that the Doctor considered all these 

 specimens representatives of the form praticola, but Mr. 

 Oberholser of the U. S. Biological Survey refers them to 

 alpestris. 



No. 1012. Male. Greensboro. Jan. 19, 18993. W. C. Avery. 



No. 1013. Female. Greensboro. Jan. 20, 1893. W. C. Avery, 



No. 1014. Male. Greensboro. Jan. 20, 1893. W. C. Avery. 



No. 1015. Male. Greensboro. Jan. 20, 1893. W. C. Avery. 



No. 1016. Female, Greensboro. Jan. 20, 1893. W. C. Avery. 



No. 1017. Male. Greensboro. Jan. 20, 1893. W. C. Avery. 



