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shore in Westmoreland, Kent, Northumberland, Gloucester 
and Restigouche Counties, and have been noted in sections 
near the coast, but I have not seen them in any other counties 
in the province, but would expect to find them in Charlotte 
and Saint John Counties as well. I have just returned from 
a trip along the north shore in the counties first named, and 
saw in all only five specimens, two of these were taken in 
Westmoreland County, a male and a female, and dissection 
proved that they were mated birds. 
“Within the past three or four years I have, on a number 
of occasions, observed Prairie Horned Larks throughout the 
rural districts of Prince Edward Island and they are unques- 
tionably breeders in that province. I regret that I am not 
able to give you exact dates of the observations in Prince 
Edward Island.” 
Practically contemporaneous with the movement of the 
Prairie Horned Lark into New England as a breeding bird, 
appear records of its occurence in Pennsylvania; later it 
appeared in Maryland, and still later in West Virginia. If, 
as the records show, the Lark first appeared in Ontario, then 
in northern and western New York and from New York to 
New England, it is not unreasonable to suppose that New 
York also provided an ingress to Pennsylvania and the regions 
east of the Allegheny mountains. 
Pennsylvania. The first record for the state is at Erie, on 
the lake of that name, only a few miles west of the southwest 
border of New York. It was reported by Sennett (1889). Todd 
(1891) reported this Lark in Butler County, June 10, 1889, 
and ‘‘probably breeding.’’ Dwight (1892) shot a specimen 
of O. a. praticola at Athens, Bradford County, June 12, 1891 
(the northeast region of the state). Bailey (1896) reported it 
as a common breeder in northern Elk County (north central 
region). Rhoads (1899) recorded it as breeding in a suburb 
of Pittsburgh in 1898, also in Allegheny, Beaver and Butler 
Counties. It is interesting to note that Brooks (1908) found 
a Lark breeding in Pittsburgh also (April 4, 1908), in Schenley 
Park* the same situation as given for the first record for the 
city eity by Rhoads ten years previously. Finally Harlow (1918) 
Schenley Park, Pittsburgh, is, it seems, a favorite place 
for ‘Praiie ag rea Lark observations for Sutton (1927) makes frequent 
reference to Lark activities noted there. 
