Prairie Horned Lark ( Otocorisjilpestris praticola) Nesting at Newbury, 
Mass. — On August 4, 1908, I discovered this species in a low brood tract, 
a short distance outside the city limits, locally known as ‘ Common Pas- 
ture.’ This is nearly level, clayey, open pasture land extending from the 
rolling coastal hills on the west, down to the border of the salt-marshes, 
with an area of about two square miles, a region which I should think was 
well suited to the tastes and habits of this bird. 
On this date I saw a single lark, in company with Vesper Sparrows, 
along the roadside, and for several days following noted the same bird in 
about the same locality, mingling freely with the sparrows, or alone. 
Each season since 1908 I have found this species in about the same place. 
During the earlier years I saw rarely more than two or three birds but of 
late they have increased in numbers. In June, 1915, I found, and fre- 
quently saw throughout the remainder of the month and during early July 
two adults and five immature birds, which would seem to indicate their 
breeding here. 
During the season of 1916, necessary attention to business precluded 
my searching for more substantial evidence of their breeding. The birds 
were present however throughout the greater part of the summer and I 
saw what were probably individuals from this family on one or two occa- 
sions in one of the neighboring towns. Apparently they have become 
regular summer residents. — S. W. Bailey, Pittsfield, Mass. 
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