BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 825 



(?) Eremophila cornula (not Alauda cornuta Wilson) Kexxerly, Rep. Pacific 

 R. R. Survey, x, pt. iv, no. 3, 1859, 27 (Zufii, Xew Mexico). — Henry, Proc. 

 Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., xi. 1859, 107 (New Mexico). 



(?) Eremophila alpestris . . . var. chrysolxma Henshaw. Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheel- 

 er's Survey for 1872 (1874). ]21 (near Wingate, New Mexico, breeding). 



OTOCORIS ALPESTRIS ADUSTA Dwight. 

 SCORCHED HORNED LARK. 



Similar to 0. a. occidfntalis, but decidedly smaller and color of upper 

 parts much more uniform, with back very indistinctl}^ streaked (even 

 on lower portion) and showing little contrast in color with the more 

 vinaceous hue of hindneck, etc.; similar also to 0. a. pallida, but much 

 darker above, with the general color more strongly vinaceous (less 

 rufescent or cinnamomeous). Adult female like that of 0. a. occiden- 

 talis but smaller; similar also to those of 0. a. aphrasta, 0. a. amnio- 

 phila, and 0. a. cJirysolxrna, but larger, darker, and more buffy or 

 cinnamomeus than the first two and paler and more buffy than the 

 last, with color of lesser wing-coverts, etc., very much paler. Young 

 similar to that of 0. a. actia, the general color of upper parts tawny 

 brown, with rather large spots of buff, the chest brownish buiT rather 

 indistinctly flecked with dark brown; also like that of 0. a. oaxacse, 

 but usually more strongly suffused wdth ochraceous. (The extreme 

 vinaceous type.) 



Adult male. —Length (skins), 142-160 (152); wing, 97-105.5 (102.4); 

 tail, 65-73 (68.8); exposed culmen, 10-12 (10.8); tarsus, 20.5-22(21.2); 

 middle toe, 10-12 (11..3).« 



Adult female. —Length (skins), 143-145 (144); wing, 91.5-98.5 (96); 

 tail, 58-65.5 (61.4); exposed culmen, 9.5-11 (10.4); tarsus, 19.5-21 

 (20.5); middle toe, 10-11.5 (10.8).« 



Breeding in south-central Arizona (at base and on foothills of 

 Huachuca and Santa Rita mountains); migrating to Chihuahua 

 (Chihuahua City) and Sonora (Santa Cruz River). 



Otocoris alpestris adusta Dwight, Auk, vii, April, 1890, 148 (Camp Huachuca, 

 s. Arizona; coll. Wni. Brewster). — Mearns, Auk, vii, 1890, 256 (mountains 

 of Arizona, alt., 10,000 ft.).— Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., v, 1893, 37 (San 

 Diego, n. w. Chihuahua, Feb. 16, Nov. 5). — American Ornithologists' 

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

 2d ed., 1896, 599.— Oberholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxiv, 1902, 858 

 (monogr.).— SwARTH, Pacific Coast Avifauna, no. 4, 1904, 28 (Huachuca 

 Mts., Arizona, breeding on lower plains; habits). 



[Otocorys alpestris.] Subsp. ?. Otocorys adusta Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 xiii, 1890, 670. 



O[tocorys] a{lpcstris] adusta Coues, Key N. Am. lUrds, 5th ed., i, 1903, 508. 



o Fifteen specimens. 



