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ing.) The typical horned lark is comnjonly niet with along the St. 

 Lawrence below Kingston in the winter and spring, and I think in 

 the month of September. {Rev. C.J. Young.) Specimens of the true 

 alpestris 'Vf&<c& taken by myself at Rat Portage and atCarberryin the 

 fall. {Thompson-Seton!) Exceeding rare; two specimens taken by Mr. 

 J. Keays in December, 1899, are intermediate between this species 

 and the var. /^«fo/^»2«. {W.E.Saunders!) Abundant everywhere 

 on the bleakest and most exposed hillsides in northeastern 

 Labrador. So far as I could determine, all the horned larks 

 observed belonged to this race. {Bigelow.) Some winters large 

 flocks of shore larks visit Kew Beach, Toronto, and a few pairs 

 occasionally remain and nest here early in April, but of course 

 this is exceptional as the summer home of this bird is further north 

 around the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Labrador. Toronto, March 

 4th, 1900, as I sat writing at my desk flocks of shore larks kept 

 passing in front of the window, and some settling on the road in 

 front of my house. I put a cartridge in my gun and walking to 

 the front door shot three birds with one discharge. Few can 

 boast of shooting horned larks from the doorway of their homes. 

 April 8th, 1900, Mr. Winton Thompson of Kew Beach took me to 

 a nest of the horned lark he had found, it contained three eggs 

 and the bird had begun to sit although the ground had patches of 

 snow around the nest and the nights were cold. In order to 

 satisfy myself this was the nest of the true alpestris I got up early 

 next morning and shot the parent, which proved to be alpestris and 

 not praticola, the eggs like the bird are one-third larger than those 

 oi praticola. Port Hope, Ontario, March 29th, 1900, Mr. Meeking 

 found a nest containing four eggs of this species, and on April 

 -13th he found another set of three and on April 28th, 1900, he 

 found another set of four eggs at the same place. These sets 

 collected at Port Hope are now in my collection and the eggs 

 from all the nests average larger than those of the prairie horned 

 ]ark collected by me on Toronto Island and in Manitoba. (W. 

 Raine) We have one specimen of the species taken at Ottawa, 

 May 15th, 1890, by W. E. Saunders. A specimen taken at Resolu- 

 tion Island, near Davis Strait in June, 1885, by Dr. R. Bell has 

 some characters of leucolama but is placed here. 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



Two undoubted specimens of this species taken on Hudson 

 Bay by Mr. A. P. Low ; and the two mentioned immediately 

 above. 



