60 PICO-PASSERES. 



Paroaria cucuUata. 



Loxia cucidlata, Latham, Ind. Orn. i. p. 378 (1790). 

 Paroaria cucuJlata, Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 471 (1850) ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xii. p. 810 (1888). 



The Red-crested Cardinal. 



Hah. South America. 



272. Natural skeleton of female : mounted. 



Presented hy Mr. J. AJiraJiams. 



272 A. Natural skeleton of female : mounted. 



PvfU'iited hy Mr J. Abrahams. 



Paroaria larvata. 



Frhujilla larvata, Bodd. Tabl. PI. Enl. p. 4 (1783). 



Paroaria dominicana, Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 471 (1850). 



Paroaria larvata (KoM.), Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xii. p. 811 



(1888). 



The Red-headed Cardinal. 



Hah, Brazil. 



273. Sternum, with shoulder-girdle. S. S. 203G. 



Family ALAUDID.E *. 



Genus OTOCORYS. 

 Bonaparte, Nuovi Ann. Sci. Bologna, ii. p. 407 (1838). 



Otocorys praticola. 



Otooorys alpestris praticola, Henshaw, Auk, i. p. 263 (1884). 

 Otocorys praticola, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiii. p. 539 (1890). 



The Prairie Horned Lark. 



HaJ). United States of America. 



274. Sternum and coracoids. S. S. 1294. 



Presented hy the Smithsonian Institution. 



* For the osteology of the Common Horned Lark {O. aliKstris), cf. Shu- 

 feldt, Bull. U.S. Geol. Siin^ xii. p. 627, pi. iv. (1882), vi. p. 119," pi. iv. 

 (1881). Cf. also Garrod, P. Z. S. 1877, pp. 507, 512. 



