. Bird-lore . • . NEST AND EGGS OF HORNED LARK two days later I could find nothing but the hole from which it hadbeen torn. After a short search another Lark flushed from a nestof three eggs almost identical with the first and about 300 yardsfrom it. Unless incubation is far advanced they seldom flush from (152) The Prairie Horned Lark 153 directly under foot, nor do they run along the ground first, after themanner of a great many of the ground builders, but keep a goodlook out, and fly straight from the nest when anyone comes withinfifty feet of them. It is needless to say that it takes sharp
. Bird-lore . • . NEST AND EGGS OF HORNED LARK two days later I could find nothing but the hole from which it hadbeen torn. After a short search another Lark flushed from a nestof three eggs almost identical with the first and about 300 yardsfrom it. Unless incubation is far advanced they seldom flush from (152) The Prairie Horned Lark 153 directly under foot, nor do they run along the ground first, after themanner of a great many of the ground builders, but keep a goodlook out, and fly straight from the nest when anyone comes withinfifty feet of them. It is needless to say that it takes sharp eyesto discover their exact position. At my arrival on the bright, sunny morning of April 24, theLark was at home, and I had another opportunity of trying to
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