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here before the winter’s snow has melted off the ground; they arrive 
in February and leave in November. (Wintle.) Occasional at 
Quebec. (Dionne).” 
Our brief examination at Flower’s Cove on the Newfoundland side 
showed an Arctic flora and the presence of the same Horned Larks 
as on the opposite side of the Straits, some fifteen miles distant. 
We have discussed this subject at some length for H. C. Oberholser 
(’ 02 , p. 828 and map) has extended the breeding range of the Prairie 
form ( praticola ) along the whole south coast of Labrador to the en¬ 
trance of the Straits of Belle Isle. This he has done on the strength 
of one specimen obtained by the Bowdoin college expedition to Labra¬ 
dor in 1891, which certainty seemed to belong to this race {'praticola). 
This view was fortified by Audubon’s description and by his plates 
of a bird taken at Bras d’Or, southern Labrador, in 1833. Here the 
throat and frontal band are white. These facts were noted by Mr. 
A. H. Norton in his report on the birds collected by the Bowdoin 
college expedition. The one specimen on which so much was made 
to depend, was taken on July 14, 1891, at Chateau Bay, but a few miles 
to the westward of Cape Charles where we obtained specimens and 
considerably to the east of Lance au Loup, the locality of the Bangs 
specimens. Mr. Norton says: “It is a female in somewhat worn 
nuptial dress and is quite typical [of praticola], though nearly reach¬ 
ing the maximum measurements of its sex. The wing measures 99 
mm.; bill from nostril 9.9 mm.Though the characteristics of 
this specimen are so well marked that its identity is not questionable, 
yet on account of the interest attached to it, it was forwarded to the 
LTnited States National Museum for verification. Mr. Richard Rath- 
bun, Assistant Secretary, informed me that it had been determined 
by Mr. H. C. Oberholser as being of this form [praticola].'” 
We forwarded all our specimens, together with the two from the 
Bangs collection from southern Labrador, to Mr. Oberholser and he 
identified them all as alpestris. We have also examined the Bow¬ 
doin college specimen and find that it corresponds to ours. In fact 
although it is rather a small specimen of a female alpestris its mark¬ 
ings are no whiter than those of our female specimens. We find it to 
measure: wing, 99 mm.; tail, 62 mm.; tarsus, 19 mm.; bill, 13 mm.; 
from nostril, 10 mm. 
Mr. Oberholser under date of January 8, 1907, writes us as regards 
our specimens: “They prove to be alpestris as I have indicated on 
