BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA, 307 



Otocoris alpestris hucolxma Dwight, Auk, vii, 1890, 142, part. 



0{tocoris] alpestris leucolxma Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 348, part. 



Otocoris alpestris hoyfi BisHor, Auk, xiii, April, 1896, 130 (Cando, Towner Co., 

 North Dakota; coll. L. B. Bishop).— Oberholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mas., 

 xxiv, 1902, 812 (monogr.)— Preble, North Am. Fauna, no. 22, 1902, 114 

 (York Factory, Fort Churchill, Cape Eskimo, etc., Keewatin).— American 

 Ornithologists' Union Committee, Auk, xx, 1903, 344, (check list no 

 474ifc).— ScHALOW, Vogel der Arktis, 1904, 239. 



Alavda cornuta (not of Wilson) Swainson and Richardson, Fauna Bor.-Am., 

 ii, 1831, 245, part. 



OTOCORIS ALPESTRIS ARCTICOLA Oberholser. 

 PALLID HORNED LARK. 



Similar to 0. a. Jioijti, but upper parts slightly paler and grayer, 

 with hindneck, etc., more lilaceous, and without any yellow on head, 

 the whole throat, as well as superciliary stripe, being white. Adult 

 female similar to that of 0. a. Jioyti, but coloration of upper parts 

 decidedly grayer, vinaceous of upper tail-coverts and lesser wing- 

 coverts decidedly paler and less rufescent, and throat and chin 

 entirely white. (Young not seen.) 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 160-175 (168); wing, 108.5-114.5 

 (111.5); tail, 67.5-74 (70.7); exposed culmen, 10-12.5 (11.3); tarsus, 

 21.5-24 (22.7); middle toe, 12-13 (12.6).^^ 



Adult female.— Ijength (skins), 165-167 (166); wing, 101.5-106 

 (104.1); tail, 62-67 (64.3); exposed culmen, 9.5-11 (10.2); tarsus, 

 21.5-23 (22.3); middle toe, 11.5-13 (12.3).^ 



Breeding in Alaska (except Pacific coast district) and valley of 

 the upper Yukon River, Northwest Territory; migrating south- 

 ward to Oregon, Utah, Montana, etc. 



Alauda cornuta (not of Wilson) Swainson and Richardson, Fauna r.or.-Ani., ii, 



1831, 245, part. 

 Eremophila cornutaB AiRB, Rep. Pacific R. R. Survey, ix, 1858, 404. part; x, pt. iii, 

 1859, 13, pi. 32 (Utah); Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 302, part.— (?) Lord, 

 Proc. Roy. Art. Inst. Woolwich, iv, 1864, 118, part (British Columbia).— 

 DALLand Bannister, Trans. Chicago Acad. Sci., i, 18(39, 281 (Fort Yukon, 

 June). 

 Otocoris ocddentalis (not of McCall) Baird, Slansbury's Rep. (U. Salt Laki\ 1852, 



318, 331 (Salt Lake City, Utah, winter). 

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



N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 140. 

 [Eremophila alpestris] h. leucolxma Coues, Birds Northwest, 1874, 38, part (in 



synonymy). 

 [Eremophila alpestris.] Var. Uucolxma Coues. Birds Northwest, 1874, 39, in text 



(Fort Randall, North Dakota, Mar.). 

 Eremophila alpestris . . . var. Icucolirma Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., v. Jan., 



1875, 37 (Nevada). 

 [Eremophila alpestris.] Var. Inicolkma Henshaw, Zool. Expl. W. lOOth Merid., 

 1875, 309, part (excl. syn. part). 



a Fifteen specimens. ^ Six specimens. 



