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Breeding in the open districts of northeastern United States and 

 southern Canada, from Manitoba to southern Quebec and southern 

 Labrador, and southward to eastern Kansas, southern IlHnois, Ohio, 

 Pennsylvania, and Xew York (inchiding Long Island): migrating 

 southward to Texas, Kentucky, South Carolina, etc., casually to 

 Colorado and Arizona. (Probably originally confined during the 

 breeding season to the prauie districts of the upper Mississippi 

 Valley and then- extension into Manitoba, but gradually extending 

 its range eastward through the deforested areas to the Atlantic coast.) 



Eremophila alpestris Allex, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. M., i, 1868, 496 (Iowa); Btill. 

 Nutt. Orn. Chib, iii, 1878, 189 (Indianapolis, Indiana, breeding). — Codes, 

 Check List. 1873, no. 53, part; 2d ed.. 1882. no. 82. part.— Baird, Brewer, 

 and RiDGWAY. Hist. X. Am. Birds, ii, 1874. 141. part. — Howey, Bull. Xutt. 

 Orn. Club. iii. 1878. 40 (Canandaigua Co., w. New York, breeding). — Dayan, 

 Bull. Xutt. Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 53 (Lewis Co., n. Xew York, breeding). — 

 RiDGWAY. Bull. Xutt. Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 165 (Wabash Co., Illinois, breed- 

 ing); Xom. X. Am. Birds 1881, no. 300, part.— Joxes, Bull. Xutt. Orn. Club, 

 iii, 1878, 189 (Rochester, Xew York, breeding).— Scott, Bull Xutt. Orn. 

 Club, iv, 1879, 141 (Johnson Co., w. Missouri, breeding). — Roberts and 

 Bexxer. Bull. Xutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880. 13 (Grant and Travei-se counties, 

 Minnesota, breeding).— Park. Bull. Xutt. Orn. Club. vi. 1881, 177 (Green I. 

 e. Xew York, breeding). — Merriam. Auk, vi, 1881. 231 (Lewis Co., New 

 York, breeding). — McIlwraith. Bull. Xutt. Orn. Club. viii. 1883, 145 (w. 

 Ontario, breeding). — Davisox. Auk. ii, 1885, 217 (Xiagara Co., New York, 

 breeding). 



[Eremophila alpestris] var. alpestris Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway. Hist. N, Am. 

 Birds, ii, 1874, 140, 143, part. 



Oiocoris alpestris Kexxicott, Rep. Illinois Agric. Soc, i, 1855. 584 (^Illinois. 

 breeding). — Agersborg. Auk. ii. 1885. 282 (s. e. South Dakota, breeding). 



Erev^ophila cornuta mot Alauda cornuta ^Yilson) Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., 

 ix. 1858. 403. part; Cat. X. Am. Birds. 1859, no. 302. part.— Wheatox, Ohio 

 Agric. Rep. for 1860, 365 (Ohio, breeding). — Baird. Brewer, and Ridgway, 

 Hist. X. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, pi. 32, fig. 2 (young).— Davis. Oologist, iv, 

 1878, — (centr.-Xew York, breeding). 



Otocori^ rufa (not Alauda rufa Audubon) Hoy, Proc. Ac. Xat. Sci. Philad., vi, 

 1853. 382 (Wisconsin, breeding). 



Eremophilu alpestris. var. leucolsema (not of Coues) Xelsox, Bull. Essex Inst., viii. 

 1876. 110 (n. e. Illinois, breeding). 



O[tocorys] alpestris praticola Hexshaw, Auk. i. July. 1884. 264 (Richland Co., 

 Illinois: coll. U. S. Xat. Mus.). 



Otocoris alpesti-is praticola Americax Orxithologists" Uxiox, Check List, 1886, 

 no. 4746. — Looiiis, Auk, iv, 1887. 255 (Chester Co., South Carolina, Dec); v, 

 1888, 206 (do., Dec. to Feb.); viii, 1891, 56-59 (do., migrations, measurements, 

 etc.).— Park, Auk. v, 1888, 111 (Green I., New York, breeding). —Brew- 

 ster, Auk. V, 1888. Ill (Revere Beach, Massachusetts, Feb.); vi, 1889, 71 

 (Great I.. Massachusetts. Dec); xi. 1894, 326 (near Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 

 breeding).— Smith and Palmer. Auk. v. 1888. 148 (District Columbia, Feb.).— 

 DuTCHER. Auk. V. 1888. 170. 180 (Long Island. New York, breeding).— Har- 

 ris. Auk. V. 1888, 320 (Buffalo. New York, breeding).— Cooke, Bu-d Migr. 

 Miss. Val., 1888, 156 (Mississippi Valley range; Manitoba, breeding). — Ridg- 

 way, Orn. Illinois, i, 1889, 338.— Sexxett, Auk, vi, 1889, 198 (Erie, w. Penn- 



