320 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



[Otocoris] vnnor Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 117, no. 7740. 



(?) [Otocorys alpestris.] Subsp. y. Otocorys rubea (not Otocorys alpestris ruheus 



Henshaw) Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xiii, 1890, 548, part (Zacatecas, 



Mexico). 



OTOCORIS ALPESTRIS ACTIA Oberholser. 

 CALIFORNIA HORNED LARK. 



Similar to 0. a. chrysolxma, but decidedly smaller, with general 

 color of upper parts slightly paler, color of hindneck, lesser wing- 

 coverts, etc., slightly less pinkish (more rufescent) vinaceous, and 

 yellow of throat and superciliary stripe paler; similar also to 0. a. 

 insularis but paler. Adult female similar to that of 0. a. chrysolxma 

 but slightly smaller; general color of upper parts more yellowish 

 (less buff y) , grayish brown, lesser wing-coverts less deeply or uni- 

 formly vinaceous-cinnamon, throat paler yellow, and sides of 

 breast less vinaceous and more distinctly streaked; similar also to 

 that of 0. a. ammopliUa but much darker. Young similar to that 

 of 0. a. adusta but chest deeper brownish buff or buffy brown. (In- 

 termediate between 0. a. insularis and 0. a. ammophila.) 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 150-157 (153); wing, 94-102.5 (99.1); 

 tail, 62-70 (65.9) ; exposed culmen, 10-12.5 (11) ; tarsus, 20-21.5 (20.8) ; 

 middle toe, 10.5-12 (11.5).« 



Adult female.— Lengih. (skins), 138-147 (142); wing, 87-96 (93); 

 tail, 54.5-63 (58.8); exposed culmen, 8.5-12 (10.6); tarsus, 17.5-21.5 

 (20.2); middle toe, 9.5-12 (10.8).« 



Coast district of northern Lower California (south to Santa Rosalia 

 Bay) and southern California (north to San Francisco Bay) , and San 

 Joaquin Valley, including western foothills of Sierra Nevada, from 

 Calaveras County southward; resident. 



Alaudariifa (not of Gmelin) Audubon, Birds Am., vii, 1844, 353, pi. 497.— Heer- 



MANN, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Philad., ii, 1852, 265, part ? (plains of California). 

 Otocoris rufa Heermann, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., x, pt. iv, no. 2, 1859, 45 (s 



California). 

 EremopJiila cornuta (not Alauda cornuta Wilson) Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv. 



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

 [Eremophila cornuta.] Var. chrysolxma (not Alauda chrysolaema Wagler) Baird 



Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 403, in text, part. 

 [Eremophila alpestris.] Var. chrysolsema Coues, Key N. Am. Birds. 1872, S9 



part. — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 144 



part (California). 

 Eremophila alpestris. . . var. chrysolsema Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 53a. — 



Henshaw, Rep. Wheeler's Survey, 187fi, App. JJ, 248, part (Santa Barbara, 



California). 

 Eremophila alpestris chrysolxma Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, Aug. 24 



1880, 185; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 3006, part.— Coues, Check List, 



2d ed., 1882, no. 84, part. 



a Fifteen specimens. 



