AVES. 133 



PASSERES. OSCINES. 



ALAUDIDAE. 



X. H. — Uncommon migrant, and in White Mt. valleys (? and 

 summit of Mt. Washington, 1905) a rare summer resident. Feb. 

 28 Aug. Eggs and young, May 21, June 22. 



Yt.— Uncommon migrant and rare summer resident (at Burling- 

 ton, Cornwall, Mt. Mansfield, Rygate, St. Albans, Stowe). Feb- 

 fall. Eggs, Mar.-April 19. 



Mass. — Rare migrant and summer resident, occasional winter 

 resident (Longmeadow). Feb. 19-Mar. 22; summer; Oct. 26- 

 Dec. 15 (winter). Eggs, July 10. 



R. I. — Rare migrant: Pawtuxet, Xov. 25, 1889. 



< onn. — ■ Uncommon migrant and summer resident (Danbury, 

 1908, Litchfield, 1905, Washington, 1906); "occasional in winter." 

 Eggs, Mar. 25. 



251. Otocoris alpestris hoyti Bishop. 



Hoyt's horned lark. 



Bishop, Auk, 1896, vol. 13, p. 130. "Cando, Towner County, 

 North Dakota." 



Open country and coasts; nests on the ground. 



Conn. — Rare migrant and (?) winter resident: Guilford, Mar. 

 7, 1903; West Haven, Jan. 24, 1905 (Bishop). 



CORVIDAE. 



252. Cyanocitta cristata (Linne) Strickland. 

 Blue jay; Corn -bird. 



Corvus cristatus Linne, Syst. nat., ed. 10, 1758, vol. 1, p. 106. 

 "in America septextrionai.i." 



Garrulus cristatus Linne. Audubon, Birds of Amer., 1842, 

 vol. 4, p. 110, pi. 231. Egg, Bendire, 1895, vol. 2, pi. 5, figs. 5, 6. 



Woodlands; nests in trees. 



Me. — Common migrant and resident. Eggs, May— June 4. 



