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With this the writer cannot agree, for, in the first place, the 
Lark probably has not lessened in numbers one whit since 
man entered its original home, the prairies, but has increased, 
seizing upon cultivated fields as recompense in great measure 
for loss of the smaller denuded or short grass areas of prairie 
—the only places where it would have bred (see further). 
Also, the wooded area in this original home has nothing of 
the extensiveness that Mr. Forbush ascribes to it, consisting 
for the most part of scattered lots. Further, Forbush says, 
“On the other hand a great region in Indiana, Ohio, New 
York and New England formerly heavily timbered has been 
more or less cleared, and the fields and pastures of the East 
offer suitable breeding places and a plentiful food supply for 
this species here.” With this last the writer is in full accord; 
indeed, this is probably the most important reason for the 
northeastward movement. 
It is probable that regions other than those listed above 
have been occupied recently by the Prairie Horned Lark as 
conditions within them have become suitable. Quite certainly 
the region from Indiana to Ohio, or at least from Indiana 
through Michigan, must have provided breeding conditions 
before the bird would have entered Ontario or New York. 
Ohio. Though Jones (1903) lists O. a. praticola as common 
nearly throughout the state, yet Wheaton, in his report on 
the Birds of Ohio published in 1882, made no reference to a 
breeding Lark. Henshaw, likewise (1884), on giving the dis- 
tribution of O. a. praticola, made no reference to Ohio. Hen- 
ninger (1902) says that this Lark appeared first in middle 
southern Ohio Oct. 28, 1899. Dwight (1890) records a speci- 
men from Circleville, Ohio, which may have been the one 
Henninger mentions. If these records constitute a reasonable 
estimate of the first appearance into the state, then it is un- 
likely that Ohio was the source which supplied Pennsylvania 
and western New York. 
Allen (1878) quotes David Starr Jordan in the 
first record noted from Indiana. Says J ordan: “Professor 
Brayton shot here (near Indianapolis) this morning a number 
of Shore Larks (Eremophila alpestris) and among them were 
two young birds, about grown. The birds usually remain here 
most or all of the summer, but I never knew of their breeding 
