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Suborder PASSERES. Song Birds. 

 Family ALAUDIDAE. Larks. 



Genus ALAUDA Linnaeus. 



Alauda Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 165. Type, by subs, desig., 

 Alauda arvensis Linnaeus (Selby, 1825). 



•• Alauda arvensis arvensis Linnaeus* Skylark. [473.] 



Alauda arvensis Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 165. (in Europae 

 apricis = Sweden.) 



Range. — Breeds in Europe (except southeastern portion and southern Italy) 

 and the British Isles. Winters as far north as Germany. Accidental in 

 Greenland and Bermuda. Introduced and resident on Vancouver Island, 

 British Columbia; also introduced but not permanently established at several 

 localities in the United States, although for several years it was resident and 

 breeding on Long Island, New York. [Allied races occur in southern Italy, 

 Mediterranean countries, Siberia, China, and Japan.] 



Genus OTOCORIS Bonaparte.^ 



Otocoris Bonaparte, Nuovi Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bologna), II, 1838, 407. 

 Type, by monotypy, Phileremos cornutus Bonaparte = Alauda cornuta 

 Wilson = Alauda alpestris Linnaeus. 



Otocoris alpestris arcticola Oberholser. Pallid Homed Lark. [474a.] 



Otocoris alpestris arcticola Oberholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIV, 

 No. 1271, June 9, 1902, 816. (Fort Reliance, Yukon River, British 

 America.) 



Range. — Breeds from Alaska (except Pacific coast strip) and in the upper 

 Yukon Valley, south on high mountains through British Columbia to Washing- 

 ton. Winters south to Oregon, Utah, and Montana. 



Otocoris alpestris hoyti Bishop. Hoyt's Horned Lark. [474/c.] 



Otocoris alpestris hoyti Bishop, Auk, XIII, No. 2, April, 1896, 130. (Can- 

 do, Towner County, North Dakota.) 



Range. — Breeds from the mouth of the Mackenzie to the west shore of 

 Hudson Bay and south to northern Alberta and northern Manitoba. Winters 

 south to Nevada, Utah, Kansas, Michigan, Ohio, New York, and Connecticut. 



^ Chionophilos "Petenyi," Brehm (Handbuch Liebh. Stuben- und Haus- 

 vogel, 1832, 296) is claimed to be tenable and an earlier name than Otocoris 

 Bonaparte. 



