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becoiniiig white at the tip of the feather; crown of the head a httlc 

 darker and more rufous; lores, feathers in front of and round the 

 eye, eyebrow, and sides of the neck behind the ear-coverts buffy 

 wliite; ear-coverts sandy, shghtl}^ marked witli brown; wing-coverts 

 and quills sandy brown, with a broad margin of buff, before which 

 is a narrow line of blackish, both inner and outer webs being mar- 

 gined in this manner; tail-feathers sandy brown with buff edgings, 

 within which is seen the same black line running parallel to the 

 outer margin as on the ^vings; outer tail-feathers all white, except 

 the margin of the inner web; outer web of the penultimate white; 

 under surface of the body creamy buff, the u])per breast prettily 

 marked with longitudinal streaks of brown, which color occupies the 

 center of the feather, and is margined with buff on each side; under 

 wing-coverts bufl'y white with a slight gray tinge. "'^ 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 159-188 (176); wing, 109.5-116 

 (113.3); tail, 68.5-73 (70.4); exposed culmen, 11 13.5 (12.2); tarsus, 

 24-26 (24.8); middle toe, 15-17 (16.2).^ 



Adult fe male. —hength (skins), 157-172 (165); wing, 98-111 (104.2); 

 tail, 63.5-71.5 (64.7); exposed culmen, 11-13 (11.6); tarsus, 23-24.5 

 (23.8); middle toe, 14.5-16 (15.5). '' 



Europe in general, except Mediterranean district. Accidental in 

 Greenland and the Bermudas, and introduced into the United States 

 (Long Island, New York; Cincinnati, Ohio, etc.'O 



[Alauda] arvensis Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 165; ed. 12, i,1766, 287.— 

 Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 781.— Gray, Hand-list, ii, WO, 117, no. 7744. 



Alauda arvensis Teumitsick, Man. d'Orn., i, 1820, 281. — Naumann, Vog. Deutschl., 

 iv, 1824, pi. 100, fig. 1.— Brehm, Vog. Deutschl., 1831, 320.— Gould, Birds 

 Europe, iii, 1837, pi. 166; Birds Gt. Brit., iii, 1873, pi. 15.— Bonaparte, 

 Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 37; Consp. Av., i, 1850, 245. — Macgillivray, 

 Hist. Brit. Birds, ii, 1839, 163.— Keyserling and Blasius, Wirb. Eur., 1840, 

 151.— ScHLEGEL, Rev. Crit., 1844, p. lix; Vog. Nederl., 1854, pi. 148; Dier. 

 Nederl. Vog., 1861, pi. 17, fig. 10. — Kjaerbolling, Daum. Fugle, 1852, pi. 

 18. — Sundevall, Svensk. Fogl., 1856, pi. 8, fig. 1. — Martens, Journ. fur 

 Orn., 1859, 214 (Bermudas).— Degland and Gerbe, Orn. Eur., i. 1867, .339.— 

 Fritsch, Vog. Eur., 1870, pi. 16, fig. 11. — Dresser, Birds Europe, iv, 1871, 

 307, pi. 231.— Harting, Handb. Brit. Birds, 1872, 24.— Coues, Check List, 

 1873, no. 55 bis; 2d ed., 1884, no. 88.— Homeyer, Journ. fur Orn., 1873, 192 

 (monogr.). — Newton, ed. Yarrell's Hist. Brit. Birds, i, 1874, 614. — Baird, 

 Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 136, pi. 32, fig. 3.— 

 Rowley, Orn. Misc., i, 1875, pi. 14, fig. 4 (color varieties). — Seebohm and 

 Harvie Brown, Ibis, 1876, 119 (lower Petchora, Russia).— Ridgw^ay, Nom. 

 N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 299.— Seebohm, Ibis, 1882, 379 (Archangel, Russia).— 



a Dresser, Birds of Europe, iv, 309. 



b Seven specimens. 



c Six specimens. 



dSee Gorgas, Rep. Comm. Patents for 1853, Agric, 1854, 70, 71; Harris, Field Notes, 

 i, no. 12, March 23, 1861, 92 (Ohio); Sherratt, Ornith. and OoL, ix, 1884, 24 (Winslow, 

 New Jersey); and various papers in Forest and Stream, The Auk, etc. 



