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dry gray grasses and fine shreds of vegetable bark, and lined with black 
and white horse hairs: it measures exactly 4 inches in diameter by i| 
high, and internally 2 inches in diameter by 13 in depth. It contained 
four incubated eggs, of a light pearl white, thickly dotted with brownish 
red and traces of lilac on the larger end. They measure .57X.48; .60X.50; 
.64X.50; .58X.49. 
Another set of four was laid in a similar nest built in a depression 
beneath a small bush on the lower side of a mountain trail. The eggs of 
this set are somewhat larger and spotted over the entire egg, the markings 
clustering about the larger end. The measurements of three of them are 
.69 x .52 ; .65 x .51 ; .66 x .50; the fourth was unfortunately broken. 
I have compared both sets with three differently marked eggs of 6 1 . 
ruticilla and find scarcely a similarity. The first set mentioned resem- 
bles three eggs I have of Myiodioctes pusillus pileolatus so closely that 
it is almost impossible to distinguish between them. — W. E. Bryant, 
San Fi'ttncisco . Cal. 
Breeding of the Horned Lark in Eastern New York. — On April 
22, 1881, Edward Root, of Green Island, N. Y., brought to me two young 
Horned Larks {Ereinophila alpestris ), about three-fourths grown and 
able to fly. On April 29 of the same year he brought to me an adult pair 
of the same species. Mr. Root informed me that he took the young and 
the old all at the same place, on Green Island, which is at the junction of 
the Mohawk River with the Hudson, about thirty feet above tide-water 
level, and at latitude 42° 45'. — Austin F. Park, Troy , N. T. 
Behavior of Leucosticte tephrocotis in Confinement. — While 
stationed at Fort Fetterman, Wyoming, in the spring of 1880, I captured 
eight Gray-crowned Finches, all apparently in perfect health and feather. 
After the capture I decided, as well as I could from the diagnostic points 
of size and plumage, that I had the sexes about equally represented. Two 
of the birds, most undoubtedly males, wore the characteristic plumage of 
Leucosticte campestris ; the gray of the crown extending well below the 
eye. As these birds were very plenty about my quarters, and anticipat- 
ing the care of my pets, I had already constructed a large double cage for 
them, consisting essentially of a lower or breeding cage, 3 x 2^ feet, with a 
large side door, and admitting the light from in front and upper half 
through a rather coarse net-work. This part of their home was intended 
to represent and take the place of their outdoor existence. The floor was 
covered with two or three inches of earth and sodded ; the grass growing 
well. Various styles of perches were introduced, miniature clumps of dry 
grasses, and odds and ends of building materials. Above and easy of 
access there was another cage, 2 x 2 x 2-i feet, with its floor also spread with 
earth, well lighted, and containing a large bath-tub and a shelf iutended 
to represent the eaves of a house, a style of perch the Gray-crowned Finch 
is particularly fond of. The capture was effected on the 10th of March, 
and the little fellows were introduced to their home for the summer. I 
