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growth along the south shore of Hubbard lake and thence 

 southwest up the West Branch river. We daily saw Blue 

 Jays following this route, and also other birds, including the 

 first Robins we noticed in the county. Four birds were 

 found that have not been taken in Wayne County, namely, 

 the American Scoter, the /\rctic Three-toed and Northern 

 Hairy Woodpecker, and the Horned Lark. Of these, the first 

 is of no especial interest as all the Scoters occur in flocks on 

 Lake Erie and undoubtedly stray into the lower Detroit River. 

 The Three-toed Woodpecker we welcomed as a pleasant 

 reminder of bygone days in coniferous forests. Though of 

 minimum size the Northern Hairy Woodpecker was notice- 

 ably larger than the more southern form in Wayne County. 

 The Fourth Provisional Zone Map of North America assigns 

 Alcona County to the Canadian Zone, though it more prop- 

 erly belongs to the upper Transition. It was never entirely 

 Canadian and now the pine forests are gone and a more south- 

 ern fauna and flora have penetrated the county and spread 

 with its agricultural development. However, probably no 

 change has affected the local Hairy Woodpeckers and we find 

 them less than the dimensions of typical leiicouiclas, but in our 

 opinion of that form, though the specimens we examined 

 may have been transients from further north rather than local 

 breeding examples. The greatest pleasure of all, however, 

 was in finding the Florned Lark, as w^e had not previously 

 seen it in life. There are no records for southeastern Michi- 

 gan, nor did Messrs. Swales and Taverner find it at Point 

 Pelee ; in fact, it is considered rare as far east at least as 

 Toronto, Canada, and Erie County, Pennsylvania, according 

 to the bird students who back their records with actual speci- 

 mens on hand, but it has been reported as more or less com- 

 mon over this entire region. In Michigan it has been found 

 abundant during the autumn migration on Isle Royal in 1905 

 and tolerably common in Houghton County and the Charity 

 Islands, Saginaw Bay, in 1910. With the exception of an 

 approximate dozen specimens in collections this is all we 

 knew of its distribution in the state prior to finding it at 



