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In a plowed field nearby I could hear a 
number of prairie horned larks. I came slowly 
upwind in their direction. 1 expected to find 
them on a sheltered south slope but in reality 
they were out on the windswept flat. They were 
very tame and kept flying just a few feet off 
before I could distinguish them from the ground. 
The y always turned their backs as I approached 
and bo were near indistinguishable from the dirt. 
^ identified about 6 horned larks out about 40 
of the common prairie species. They all had 
about the same habits. If any others flew 
around the others watched them closely and at 
times crouched as though to join them. They were 
widely spread though generally one or two or more 
fed close together. They called and sang 
continuously. The young had a broken song some¬ 
what different from that of the adults. 
They were accompanied by one American pipit, 
it looked quite sparrowlike when I first saw it. 
t fed just about the same as the larks but seemed 
a trifle more upright in carriage. It soon flew 
and mingled with the others so that 1 lost it and 
1 left them. 
" e nt on over to the Hemlocks. Saw a crow 
walking.around in the cornfield where I had watch¬ 
ed the jays. It was picking off corn and eating 
it walked from one pile to another and coming 
so a rough place flew over it with a single flap of 
ts wings. In the weeds were some white-throated 
s parrows the first I have seen this week. They 
were singing some. 
The cave was full of junco tracks and those 
° other sparrows. They had probably come there 
°i sand to aid in digestion. I wonder when they 
So there. I have never seen any birds in there 
xcept the phoebes which nest there in the summer 
