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was very much surprised to find it 
was a lizard about six inches long. 
How the parent bird managed to feed 
this lizard to the young I do not know, 
unless she tore it into bits with her 
strong beak. The Trogon usually 
feeds on berries and insects, prefer- 
ring the former which it takes on the 
wing flying to a perch to eat them; so 
jit is curious to find it feeding its 
young on lizards. 
The parent was fierce while I was 
at the nest, attacking me with her 
bill, drawing blood from my hand. 
I visited the nest ten days later, 
finding one of the young alive; the 
other two were eaten by magots. The 
Trogon is one of the most difficult 
birds of Cuba, if not the most difficult 
to procure in perfect condition as its 
feathers fall out very easily while 
handling, or touching any branches or 
limbs while falling upon being shot. 
In this it is even more delicate than 
the Quail Dove, which are extremely 
SO. 
This Trogon, as well as the bird re- 
ferred to by Mr. Read as the Isle of 
Pines Tanager and the Ruddy Quail 
Dove, are found in Cuba; the latter is 
known to the natives as “perdiz” pro- 
nounced. “perdeeth,’ meaning Par- 
tridge, and is known in our end of 
Cuba (the east end) as Torito, while 
in the Western end of the island it is 
commonly called “Boneys.” The 
“name Torito meaning a small bull, is 
given the bird by the natives here be- 
cause its note which resembles some- 
what the bellowing of a bull when 
heard from a distance, but of course 
much lower. This note is very deceiv- 
ing as one may be very close to the 
bird and nevertheless be unable to lo- 
cate the exact place the sound comes 
from. 
The bird we call Perdiz is the Blue- 
headed Quail dove. 
CHARLES T. RAMSDEN. 
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Prairie Horned Lark. 
The first nest of the Prairie Horned 
Lark that I ever saw was found March 
24, 1907. A friend and I were out for 
a walk on a high ridge, one mile South- 
west of Waynesburg, Pennsylvania. 
As we came near to a knob on the 
ridge I mentioned it as a likely place 
for a Lark’s nest. I had always seen 
them in such places. When we were 2 
short distance below the top of the 
knob, I saw a Lark fly up not far away. 
Hurrying to the place I found a nest 
containing three eggs. The nest was 
composed of dry grass and wool, plac- 
ed in a depression flush with the sur- _ 
face, and was beside a short tuft of 
grass. 
Two days later, March 26th, I found 
a second nest, on a ridge two miles 
North of town. It was on a level, be- 
low a high knob, and on the East side 
of the hill. It contained four eggs, 
heavily incubated and larger than the 
first eggs found. 
April 1st I found a nest just being 
built on a high ridge, and as in- the 
others, a short distance below a knob. 
I returned April 7th and it contained 
five fresh eggs. 
April 4th I found a nest containing 
three small young, two miles West of 
town, on a hillside a short distance be- 
low a knob. It was built beside a short 
tuft of grass. 
March 21st, 1908, I found a nest con- 
taining three eggs on the same ridge 
as 1-5 was found last year. I left it 
and on returning two days later found 
only two eggs in it. They were heavi- 
ly incubated, 
On my way home I found another 
nest containing two heavily incubated 
eggs, near the top of a high knob and 
about one-half mile from the first. 
The bird was flushed. 
March 30, 1908, while I was walking 
on a high hillside below a knob I flush- 
