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THE COLLECTORS' MONTHLY. 



and was quite a pet; but at last was a 

 victim to the cat. 



My next paper will be on the Picidae. 

 Albert Garett. 



Lawrence, Kan. 



The Prairie Horned Lark 



(For the Collectors Monthly) 

 BY F. H. B. 



The reason I have chosen the Horned 

 Lark as the subject of this sketch is, his 

 presence as a ground bird the most 

 noticable, to a tiller of the soil — I first 

 began to see them about April loth, 

 and they have been constant companions 

 since. His song if such his few notes can 

 be caJled, is in our ears all day long. 



I found my first nest on May 2d '90' 

 on the ground at the foot of a corn hill. 

 The nest was made of dead wild-grass 

 and the course roots of the prarie-grass, 

 nicely woven together in a holejust large 

 enough to receive it. The nest was 2% 

 inches deep out-side 2 inches in diauiater 

 1% in depression, and contained 3 fresh 

 eggs, of a dirty green ground work 

 marked with chocolale or olive brown 

 spots or rather speckles that almost 

 covered the ground work. Sinc3 that 

 time I have found 4 or 5 nests and all of 

 them have been placed at the foot of 

 corn hills and the singular part of it all 

 was, they were invariably on the east 

 side of the hill. The birds are so well 

 known that a description is scarcely 

 necessary. But for the benefit of some 

 who may get them mixed with the ground 

 Sparrow I will try and describe them to 

 the best of my ability. 



The male is about 3% inches from tip 

 to tip. Head is a brown gray on the 

 crown, side of head around the eyes is 

 jet black. Throat a dingy white fading 

 to clear white on breast. Under tail- 

 coverts dingy white. And the distinguish- 

 ing feature, the "horn" attachment raises 

 from the fore head between the eyes and 

 curves gracefully backward. The female 

 is much the color of the male except has 

 not the black spots on side of her head, 

 and is some what smaller than the male 

 and has no horn. 



Now as a closing remark I will say 

 that the study of Ornithology is a source 

 of endless enjoyment and satisfaction to 

 me. 



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