14 Trans. Acad. Sci. of St. Louts 
states that the bird breeds over most of Pennsylvania north of 
Northampton, Schuylkill, Northumberland, Cumberland and 
Franklin Counties, was found nesting on the Pocono Plateau in 
Huntington, Center and Green Counties. 
Maryland. LHifrig (1904) reports the Prairie Horned Lark 
as breeding in the “higher parts” of western Maryland and 
again (1920) speaks of it as a “not uncommon breeder” in 
the vicinity of Oakland, western Maryland. In neither of 
these cases does he say that nests were found, though in refu- 
tation of a “first” breeding record reported by Swales (see 
below), he says (1923) that he “has taken this race summer 
and winter in Allegheny and Garrett Counties since 1900, and 
his records of breeding (see above) “were backed by speci- 
mens taken.” Swales (1922) reports an adult male and two 
juveniles taken at Laurel by Marshall. 
District of Columbia. No breeding records were uncovered, 
but Smith and Palmer (1888) took O. a. praticola in the vicinity 
of Washington in February, 1881. 
West Virginia. Brooks (1908) noted O. a. praticola m 
Kanawha County, June 19, 1902; “seems to be resident” in 
Wood County. A specimen was taken in the Poco Bottoms, 
Putnam County, October 15, 1902; a pair was secured at 
Cameron, Marshall County, June 11, 1900; noted in Lewis 
County in breeding season; in 1905, young were noted just 
from the nest near Morgantown. At French Creek, April 11, 
1905, a nest with three young birds was found. Dadisman, in 
an account in Bird Lore (1919), says that “three years ago 
this summer,” a pair of Prairie Horned Larks nested in Mor- 
gantown, West Virginia. The nest was seen. 
Thus it seems that the Prairie Horned Lark, having entered 
Ontario, 1868-1873, moved next into New York and simul- 
taneously from there into Pennsylvania on the south and New 
England on the east. Its southern breeding limit is West 
Virginia on the south, but the sea alone has stopped it from 
Massachusetts to the Saint Lawrence. 
This assumed extension of range of the Prairie Horned Lark 
has not been without its critics. The first of these is Norton 
(1906), _who asserts that Henshaw’s (1884) erection of the 
subspecies merely directed attention toward it, and so ac- 
counts for the many recent records of the Lark where formerly 
