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and 0. a. praticola but more buffy or ocliraceous. (The extreme 

 streaked and yellow type.) 



Adult 7nale.— Length (skins) 144-160 (152); wing, 96-101 (98); 

 tail, 61.5-68.5 (65.8); exposed culmen, 10-12.5 (11.3); tarsus, 

 19.5-22 (20.8); middle toe, 10.5-12.5 (11.4).« 



Adult female. — Length (one skin), 137; wing, 90-93.5 (92); tail, 

 56.5-63.5 (59.6); exposed culmen, 9-11 ' (10.2) ; tarsus, 19-21.5 

 (20.4); middle toe, 11-12.5 (11.7).^ 



Breeding in Oregon and Washington west of the Cascade Moun- 

 tains; migrating to eastern Oregon and Washington and northern 

 California (Red Bluff; San Francisco). 



(?) Alauda cornuta (not of Wilson) Townsend, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Philad., viii, 

 1839, 154. 



Eremophila cornuta (not Alauda cornuta Wilson) Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Survey, 

 ix, 1858, 403, part; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 302, part.— Cooper and 

 SucKLEY, Rep. Pacific R. R. Survey, xii, pt. ii, 1860, 195, part (Fort Steila- 

 coom, Washington). — (?) Brown, Ibis, 1868, 421 (Vancouver I.). — Cooper, 

 Orn. Cal., i, 1870, 251, part (Puget Sound). 



Eremophila alpestris (not Alauda alpestris Linnaeus) Belding, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., i, 1878, 423 (Marysville, California, Feb.; Summit Meadow.s, California, 

 ^ Oct.). 



[Eremophila al})estris.] Var. chrysolsema (not Alauda chrysolaema Wagler) Baird, 

 Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 144, part ("6. Speci- 

 mens from coast of Oregon and Washington Territory"). 



[Otocortjs alpestris] strigata Henshaw, Auk, i, July, 1884. 261 (crit., etc.). 



0[toconjs] alpestris strigata Henshaw, Auk, i, July, 1884. 264, 267 (Fort Steilacoom, 

 Washington; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



Otocoris alpestris strigata American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, 

 no. 474gr. — Anthony, Auk, iii, 1886, 166 (Washington Co., Oregon; breed- 

 ing).— Townsend (C. H.), Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1887, 210 (Red Bluff, 

 n. California, Dec). — Dwight, Auk, vii, 1890, 151, part (excl. syn. insularis, 

 Townsend). — Miller, Auk, viii, 1891, 314 (Salem, Oregon; descr. young). ^ 

 Lawrence (R. H.), Auk, ix, 1892, 45 (upper Quinicault, Humptulips, etc., 

 Grays Harbor, Washington, Apr. to June). — Oberholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., xxiv, 1902, 837 (monogr.). 



0[tocoris] alpestris strigata Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 349. 



0[tocorys] a[lpestris] strigata Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 5th ed., i, 1903, 507. 



[Otocorys alpestris.] Subsp. s. Otocorys strigata Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 xiii, 1890, 549, part (excl. specimen/, Santa Barbara, California '"). 



OTOCORIS ALPESTRIS INSULARIS Townsend. 

 ISLAND HORNED LARK. 



Very similar to 0. a. strigata, but upper parts slightly darker and 

 less brown or buffy (grayer) wath streaks less blackish, hindneck, 

 lesser wing-coverts, etc., darker vinaceous-cinnamon, and under parts 



a Fourteen specimens. 



^ Ten specimens. 



cl am very doubtful whether specimens e, Marin Co., California, and jy-g^ and h'-m', 

 Carson, Nevada, are properly placed. Specimens from the former locality in the 

 U. S. National Museum collection are all 0. a. actia, while those from the latter locality 

 are 0. a. merrilli. 



