10 Trans. Acad. Sci. of St. Louis 
him their Larks for examination, found the following to be 
praticola: Pittsfield, Somerset County, March 29, 1892, male; 
March 27, 1893, male; March 22, 1894, female; Bucksport, 
Hancock County, 1886 or 1887, two; Bangor, March 30, 1887, 
male; North Bridgton, Cumberland County, March 13, 1897, 
four; Lewiston, February 26, 1897, one. At that time the bird 
had not yet reached the Maine coast, nor was there evidence of 
its breeding within the state. Swain (1900) collected a female 
and young July 17, 1900, between Waterville and Pishon’s 
Ferry on the east side of the Kennebec and so established the 
first breeding record for the state. 
Connecticut. Woodruff (1905, p. 420) found it breeding at 
Litchfield, May 25, 1905, and Judd (1908, p. 129) found it 
breeding in Danbury. 
The northward movement of the Prairie Horned Lark into 
northeastern Canada has been very slow and of much later 
date (excepting Ontario) than that into New York and south- 
ern New England. The bird must have reached these parts 
from New York and New England. However, because of this 
contiguity, the provinces will next be considered. 
Ontario. It is probable, judging from its geographical posi- 
tion and the early date of the appearance of the Prairie Horned 
Lark there, that Ontario received its birds from Michigan and, 
secondarily, gave an ingress to New York and regions further 
east. MclIlwraith (see above) noted that the Prairie Horned 
Lark first reached Hamilton (at west end of Lake Ontario) 
between 1871 and 1873 (or 1868 as he later avers). Fleming 
(1901) writes that this Lark appeared first at Port Sydney in 
1887 and is an abundant breeding resident. Again Fleming 
(1907) lists it as a common breeding resident of Toronto. 
Finally, Soper (1923, p. 501) calls it a common summer resident 
of Wellington and Waterloo counties. 
bec. The Prairie Horned Lark did not, apparently, pene- 
trate to this province until long after it entered Ontario. 
Indeed, it seems probable that it finally entered this region by 
way of northern New York and Vermont rather than from the 
west. Dionne (1906) does not mention it as a breeding bird, 
but Terrill (1911) quotes Wintie s 1896 “List of Montreal 
Birds” as mee this Lark as a “summer resident; common”. 
Terrill adds: “This species has been steadily on the inerease 
