History 9 
of this species, in April, 1885 (three young, one egg), another 
in April with four eggs; a female with a nearly-formed egg 
was taken April 6, 1888. A positive record was made April 
19, 1889, at which time the female was taken from the nest and 
later identified by Brewster. These records were at Cornwall. 
Several years later Howell (1901), records that it was first 
noticed in Stowe Valley, Vermont, in 1898; bred there in 1901. 
Massachusetts. The first Horned Larks taken in Massachu- 
setts that may have been O. a. praticola were secured by 
Brewster at Concord, in July, 1869. These are referred to by 
Howe and Allen (1901) as being recorded in Brewster’s: 
“Minot’s Land and Game Birds,” second edition, 1895, p. 247. 
This latter reference has not been available to the writer, but 
it is most probable that it is this record that Coues (1874) 
cites from Maynard’s Guide (1870, p. 121) and adds “perhaps 
breeding’’. Brewster (1888), after the erection of O. a. prati- 
cola, went over his collection and found a pair of Prairie Horned 
Larks that had been taken February 28, 1883, at Revere Beach, 
Massachusetts. This seems to have been the earliest definite 
record for the subspecies in the state. Intrigued by this Feb- 
ruary, 1888, discovery he shot twenty-three Horned Larks the 
next winter, December 15, 1888, at Great Island, near Hyannis, 
Massachusetts, and found two of praticola in the lot (1889). 
Faxon (1892) took birds in the breeding season at North 
Adams, and Williamstown, Massachusetts, in 1890 and 1891. 
Brewster, having collected the first for the state, had the pleas- 
ure of recording the first bona-fide nesting (1894), when Henry 
R. Buck reported a nest found by Buckingham with a set of 
fresh eggs at Pittsfield, Massachusetts, July 10, 1892. Other 
records of breeding followed this, the latest of significance 
being that of Townsend (1904), who records adults and young 
collected at Ipswich, Massachusetts, August 11 and 13, 1903. 
These and that of Forbush (1927), who shows a breeding local- 
ity on Cape Cod, place the Prairie Horned Lark at the sea. 
New Hampshire. Faxon (1892), records the first breeding 
for this state at Franconia with records of capture of adults 
and second brood young of June 4 and July 21. Torrey (1905), 
says that it was found breeding on Mount Washington above 
the tree line, July 7-19, 1905. 
Maine. Knight (1897), by requesting collectors to send to 
