BIKDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 305 



Breeding in northeastern British America, east of Hudson Ba}'", 

 from Newfoundland, Labrador, and head of James Bay northward; 

 in winter migrating w^est to Manitoba and the Mississippi Valley 

 (eastern portion, chiefly) and southward to Illinois, Oliio, and the 

 Carolinas, casually to Louisiana and the Bermudas; accidental in 

 Greenland. 



[Alauda] alpestris Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 166 (Virginia; based on 

 The Lark Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carolina, i, 32, pi. 32; Z' Alouette de Virginie 

 Brisson, Orn., iv, 367); od. 12, i, 1766, 289.— Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 800.— 

 Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 498. 



Alauda alpestris Forster, Philos. Trans., Ixii, 1772, 398 (Hudson Bay). — Wilson, 

 Am. Orn., i, 1808, 85, pi. 5, fig. 4.— Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., i, 1832, 

 455.— Audubon, Orn. Biog., ii, 1834, 570, pi. 200; Synopsis, 1839, 96; Birds 

 Am., iii, oct. ed., 1841, 44, pi. 151.— Hurdis, Jardine's Contr. Orn., 1850, 36 

 (Bermudas). — Reinhardt, Journ. fur Orn., 1854, 440 (Greenland). — Mar- 

 TENSs Journ. fiir Orn., 1859, 214 (Bermudas). 



Eremovfiila alpestris Boie, Isis, 1828, 322. — Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 53, 

 part; 2d ed., 1882, no. 82, part. — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. 

 Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 141, part.— Ridgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 300, 

 part. 



[Eremophila] alpestris Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 89, part. 



E[remophila] alpestris Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 281, part. 



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

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



[Eremophila alpesti-is] a. alpestris Coues, Birds Northwest, 1874, 37, part. 



Phileremos alpestris Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 37, part. 



Otocoris alpestris Bonaparte, Nuovi Ann. Sci. Nat. Bologna, ii, 1838, 407. — 

 Stejneger, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1882, 34.— Turner, Proc. IT. S. Nat. 

 Mus., viii, 1885, 241 (Koksvak R. and Rigolet, Labrador). — American 

 Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 474. — Cooke, Bird Migr. 

 Miss. Val., 1888, 155, part.— Ridgway, Orn. Illinois, i, 1889, 338 (winter).— 

 DwiGHT, Auk, vii, 1890, 141 (monogr.).— Palmer (W.), Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 xiii, 1890, 262 (Penguin Islands and Canada Bay, Newfoundland, breeding). — 

 Wayne, Auk, x, 1893, 205 (Charleston, South Carolina, Jan.). — Brimley, 

 Auk, X, 1893, 243 (Raleigh, North Carolina, Dec, Jan.).— Bishop, Auk, xviii, 

 1901, 267 (Pea Island, North Carolina, Feb.).— Bigelow, Auk, xix, 1902, 29 

 (coast n. e. Labrador, breeding). — Preble, North Am. Fauna, no. 22, 1902, 

 114 (Moose Factory, n. Ontario, June 18). — Eifrig, Auk, xxii, 1905, 240 

 (Fullerton and Cape Chidley, Hudson Bay; descr. nest and eggs). 



[Otocoris] alpestris Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 246, part.— Gray, Hand- 

 list, ii, 1870, 117, no. 7734, part. 



0[tocoris] alpestris Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1847, 382, part. — Ridgway, Man. N. 

 Am. Birds, 1887, 348, part. 



Otocoris aljjestris alpestris Oberholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxiv, no. 1271, 

 June 9, 1902, 807 (monogr.).— Schalow, Vogel der Arktis, 1904, 237. 



Otocorys alpestris Gray, List Gen. Birds, 1841, 62. — Reinhardt, Ibis, 1861, 8 

 (Godthaab, Greenland, accidental; crit.). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 xiii, 1890, 541, part (excl. syn. Alauda nivalis Pallas, and all e. Asiatic 

 references). 



Oltocorys] alpestris Henshaw, Auk, i, 1884, 263, part (diagnosis, etc.). — Coues, 

 Key N. Am. Birds, 5th ed., i, 1903, 505, part. 



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