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of the Cascade Mountains to southeastern British Colombia (Cliilh- 

 wack; Kamloops; Osoyos; Ashcroft; Sumas Lake), and northwest- 

 ern Idaho (Post Falls) ; central California during migration. 



Olocoris alpestris (not Alauda alpestris Linnseus) Newberry, Rep. Pacific R. R. 



Survey, x, pt. iv, cliap. ii, 1857, 88, part (Des Chutes basin, Oregon). 

 Eremophila alpestiis Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 



1874, 141, part.— Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 227 (Walla 



Walla, e. Washington). 

 Eremophila rormita (not Alauda cornuta Wilson) Cooper and Suckley, Rep. 



Pacific R. R. Survey, xii, pt. ii, 1860, 195, part (e. Oregon and Washington). — 



Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 140, 143, part, 



pi. 32, fig. 1. 

 Eremophila alpestris chrysolsema (not Alauda chrysolaema Wagler) Ridgway, Bull. 



Essex Inst., vii, 1875, 11, 13 (Carson Valley, Nevada, breeding). 

 [Otocorys alpestris] arenicola Hensha"W, Auk, i, 1884, 259, part. 

 Eremophila alpestiis var. ? Mearns, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1889, 163 



(Fort Klamath, e. Oregon). 

 Otocoris alpestris strigata (not of Henshaw) Merrill, Auk, v, 1888, 259 (Fort 



Klamath; habits; descr. nest, etc.). — Brewster, Auk, v, 1888, 260 (descr. 



young). 

 Otocoris alpestris merrilli Dwight, Auk, vii, April, 1890, 153 (Fort Klamath, 



Oregon; coll. W. Brewster). — American Ornithologists' Union, Check 



List, 2d ed., 1895, no. 474i.— Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 



599.— Oberholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxiv, 1902, 833 (monogr.).— 



Ray, Auk, xx, 1903, 185 (Lake Valley, California, Oct.). — Snodgrass, 



Auk, XX, 1903, 206 (Big Bend district, centr. Washington); xxi, 1904, 229 



(Yakima, Garfield, and Columbia counties, etc., centr. and s. e. Washington). 

 0[tocorys] a[lpestris] merrilli Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 5th ed., i, 1903, 508. 

 [Otocorys alpestris.] Subsp. ?;. Otocorys merrilli Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 



Mus., xiii, 1890, 670. 

 Otocoris alpestris Icucolsema (not Eremophila alpestris, h. leucolsema Coues) Barlow, 



Condor, iii, 1901, 167 (Lake Valley, California, 6,400 ft., Oct.; cf. Grinnell, 



Condor, iv, 1902, 17). 



OTOCORIS ALPESTRIS STRIGATA Henshaw. 

 STREAKED HORNED LARK. 



Most like 0. a. msularis, but upper parts slightly paler and more 

 brown or buffy (less grayish) with streaks more blackish, color of 

 hindneck, lesser wing-coverts, etc., lighter vinaceous-cinnamon, and 

 luider parts of body more or less tinged with yellow; similar also 

 to 0. a. merriUi but decidedly smaller, upper parts much browner 

 or more buffy (less grayish) with streaks broader and much more 

 blackish, and under parts of bod}' more or less (sometimes strongly 

 and wholly) suffused with yellow. Adult female most like those of 

 0. a. insularis and 0. a. actia, but ground color of upper parts more 

 yellowish or buff}^, back broadly and conspicuously streaked with 

 black, lesser wing-coverts deep vinaceous-cinnamon or cinnamon- 

 rufous, in conspicuous contrast with general coloration, and under 

 parts more or less yellow^ish. Young similar to those of 0. a. inerrilli 



