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Lattin (1881) reports ‘‘Eremophila alpestris’’ quite common in 
Orleans County, N. Y., and on April 17, 1880, found a nest in 
an old pasture at Gaines. Later (May 28) another in a straw- 
berry patch and June 15 (circa) yet another in a tobacco patch. 
Merriam (1881, p. 231) in his “Preliminary List of Birds Ascer- 
tained to Occur in the Adirondack Region, Northeastern New 
York’’, says of ‘‘Eremophila alpestris’’, Shore Lark: ‘‘ Rare, but 
becoming common. Breeds on the sandy fields along the west- 
ern border of the wilderness and probably at other localities.” 
Park (1881), tells of young Horned Larks taken at Green 
Island, N. Y., April 22, 1881 (junction of Mohawk and Hud- 
son). An adult pair was similarly taken April 29, 1881. Seven 
years later Park (1888) records the fact that Wm. Brewster 
identified these as Otocoris alpestris praticola. At the same 
time he mentions the taking of O. a. praticola at Troy, N. Y., 
February 22, 1883, and March and October, 1887. 
Following the publication of Henshaw’s (1884) paper on the 
Horned Larks, records of the Prairie Horned Lark are numer- 
ous and present a steady east and northward movement, 
followed later by a southward invasion. This can best be pre- 
sented by states. 
New York. Langille’s, Howe’s, Davis’, Lattin’s and Rath- 
bun’s accounts (see above) have already been given as show- 
ing the presence of the breeding praticola in the Adirondack 
region, Cayuga, Seneca, Orleans and Wayne counties and in 
Canandaigua, Utica and Buffalo, N. Y. (northeastern, central 
and western portions of the state), in 1875-1881. Park had 
breeding forms from Green Island and Troy (east-central bor- 
der) in 1881-1887. Davison (1885, pp. 217, 218) secured the 
first nest and eggs of praticola (‘‘Eremophila alpestris”) from 
Niagara County (extreme western county), on June 17, 1884. 
The nest was in the side of a manure heap in the field. The 
young farmer who located it for him said it bred there three 
times a year for there were “young birds in April, June and 
August’’. Dutcher (1888) records O. a. proaticola as taken on 
Long Island, Queen County, July 31, 1888; another, a young 
bird, was taken September 14, 1887. 
Vermont. The earliest records of the presence of the Prairie 
Horned Lark in New England and of its breeding there seem 
to be those of Parkhill (1889). He tells of nests, presumably 
