238 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



SUBORDER OSCINES. SONG BIRDS. 



FAMILY ALAUDID^E. LARKS. 



GENUS ALAUDA LINNAEUS. 



Alauda LINN. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 165. Type, by elimination, A. 

 arvensis LINN. 



[473.] Alauda arvensis LINN. 



Skylark. 



Alauda arvensis LINN. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 165. 

 [B , Css&is, R 299 , C 88.] 



HAB. Europe and Asia. Accidental in Greenland and the Ber- 

 mudas. 



GENUS OTOCORIS BONAPARTE. 



Otocoris BONAP. Faun. Ital. Ucc. Introd. 1839. T }'P e > Alauda alpes- 

 tris LINN. 



474. Otocoris alpestris (LINN.). 



Horned Lark. 



Alauda alpestris LINN. S. N. ed. 10, 1758, 166. 



Otocoris alpestris BONAP. Fauna Ital Uccelli, Introd. 1839 (not paged). 



[B 302, C 53, R 300, C 82.] 



HAB. Northeastern North America, Greenland, and northern parts 

 of the Old World ; in winter south in the Eastern United States to the 

 Carolinas, Illinois, etc. 



474 a. Otocoris alpestris leucolsema (COUES). 



Pallid Horned Lark. 



ihi alpcslris b. leucolvma COUES, B. N. W. 1875. 38 (part). 

 Otocoris aJpestris leucol&ma STKJN. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. V. June 5, 

 1882, 34. 



