V XII, July, 1895, P p- 3 t>i>~~ 6 . 
The Lark Bunting in South Carolina. — One afternoon m the early 
part of April I noticed a very plump looking Sparrow while I was walk- 
ing down a road which had a very thick hedge on one side. This bird 
was in the top of a bush when I noticed it and it bore a strong resem- 
blance to the Grass Finch {Poocmtes gramineus), only it was larger. I 
fired at it with a small collecting pistol and slightly wounded it. Day 
after day I visited the spot hoping to see the bird again. Eight days 
afterwards, April 19, early one morning I saw the same bird within a few 
yards of the place where I had wounded it. It was perched on a low 
bush and upon seeing me flew down into a field where a lot of White- 
throated Sparrows were feeding. This time I secured it. Upon exami- 
nation I was completely puzzled for it was a new bird to me. I had in 
mind the Lark Bunting ( Calamosjyiza melanocorys ), and specimens of 
this bird, kindly sent me by Messrs. Brewster and Chapman, confirmed my 
suspicions. The bird is an adult female and evidently wintered, as it was 
moulting about the throat. It seems strange that this bird was taken 
within 200 yards of the place where I shot the Missouri Skylark, and 
Little Brown Crane, recorded in recent numbers of ‘The Auk.’ — Arthur 
T. Wayne, Mount Pleasant, S. C. 
