A Crossbilled Horned Lark. — Professor H. W. Parker, of the 
Agricultural College of Iowa, recently sent me drawings and a description 
of a Horned Lark with crossed mandibles, shot at Grinnell, Iowa, Decem- 
ber 9, 1879. Both mandibles are of the same length, rather longer and 
slenderer than usual, the upper curving downward and the lower upward, 
passing by each other and crossing in the same manner as in the Cross- 
bills. The specimen is thus truly a crossbilled Horned Lark. Deformities 
of the bill in birds is not a very rare occurrence, but examples are rare in 
which the mandibles are so fully and symmetrically crossed as in the pres- 
ent case. A similar deformity in a Magpie is recorded by Dr. Brewer 
(Familiar Science and Fancier’s Journal, June, 1879, p. 106), and a few 
other like cases are on record. — J. A. Allen, Cambridge, Mass. 
Bull, N, O.O, 5 , April, 1880 , p. //$". 
602. 
irly JVes.. 
the Shore Lark. By E. E. El ish |. 
at. Field Club, i&SS 
Ibid., p. 
56. Nesting of the Horned Lark ( Eremofhila cornuta ) in Central 
Ne-w Tork. By Fred. J. Davis. Ibid., IV. p. 9, April, 1878. — Nest, with 
three young birds and one ess. found 
2013- 
The Shore 
1889 [,p- 5 ]- 
V Lark. By Frank H. N 
Naturalist , Vol. »• " 
H. Nutter. Ibid., No. 2, 
Feb. 
Q,m& Qb 
1 
. p 
27s 
H. Lattin. 
Horned Lark. Nesting Habits in Orleans Co., N. T. By F. 
Ibid., VI, pp- 10, 11. 
it i B, Rev T. IL Langille. Ibid., No. 4, pp- - 
ffX Sid — l ** . w - x * 
~y 
.868. Bar. 
, y Breeding of tk 7 Horned^ ^ ^ 
j 45 ._ At Virgil, N. Y.-ayoun 
Ibid., 
Xiv T & yOU " S the middle 
Of Febnia," at Buffalo, N. Y. For. * StreMB 
Tiic Shore Lark in Canada. Bv John A. Morden. 
Auk, VI 1. Jan. 180(7. p. xjt . 
Ibid . , 
The Oologist. 1621. 
149. — Early nesting. 
741. Arrivals. By C. O. Tracy. Ibid., p. 71.— Among early spring 
arrivals, at Taftsville, Vt. , the Shore Lark is mentioned as seen for the 
first time at this locality. 0, <fe Q.Vol.VXEI i 
484. Nesting Habits of the Horned Lark. By F. E. L. Beal. Ibid., 
XVI, pp. 240, 241. — Snow seen “blowing over the nest and mother bird 
when the weather was as severe as midwinter.” Azaer. Naturalist* 
