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A Specimen of this form was shot at Chateau bay, southern 

 Labrador, on July 14, 1891, which was possibly a straggler, but 

 may indicate that this form is a regular summer visitant to all 

 eastern Quebec and the Straits of Belle Isle. (Norton.)- A com- 

 mon summer resident in the Montreal district. They have been 

 found breeding here before the winter's snow has melted off the 

 ground; they arrive in February and leave in November. (Wintle.) 

 Occasional at Quebec. (Dionne.) A common summer resident 

 in the Ottawa district; it arrives before the end of February and 

 remains all summer to breed, and leaves about the beginning of 

 November. {Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) An abundant, breeding, 

 summer resident in the Muskoka and Parry Sound districts. The 

 date of its first appearance at Port Sydney, as given by Mr. Ka}', 

 was 1887. (/. H. Fleming.) Summer resident at Scotch Lake, 

 York county, N.B. (W. H. Moore.) Reaching us during the early 

 days of February, these birds soon became very abundant. On 

 February 20, 1900, they were especially so along the lake shore, 

 and wherever a patch of weeds was in evidence above the snow 

 dozens of the birds were hurrying to and fro clearing up all the 

 seeds and enlivening the scene with merry little snatches of song. 

 (/. Hughes-Samuel.) 



This is a common summer resident in Manitoba, breeding freely 

 on the open prairie. {E. T. Seton.) There are probably three or 

 four forms of horned larks in Manitoba The form I have been in 

 the habit of calling praticola arrives at Aweme about February 24th 

 and departs about November 13th, a few being seen at intervals 

 through the winter. Two specimens of praticola were determined 

 for me by the United States Biological Survey ; these were shot early 

 in March. Another form arrives with the Lapland longspur. This 

 I have been in the habit of calling the desert horned lark. {Criddle.) 



Breeding Notes. — This sub-species arrives in February and 

 March, and continues all summer. Early in February this year 

 (1901) I saw a number of horned larks on the ice between Kingston 

 and Wolfe island; they are often in company with snow buntings; 

 the first prairie horned larks I saw on February 17th, (3), and one 

 on February 28th near the head of Wolfe island. They are tamer 

 and more familiar birds than the northern variety, and are now 

 breeding commonly in Ontario. In the townships of Lansdowne 



