LARKS 



When other birds are silent its melody greets 

 the ear as the sun breaks through the rift 

 in the clouds in the winter sky, and brings up 

 visions of summer, and waving grain fields 

 and green meadows. The western meadow- 

 lark is practically a permanent resident along 

 the Pacific Coast west of the Cascades. 

 During severe winters it will come to the feed- 

 ing stations with other birds, but ordinarily 

 it is well able to find a living for itself under 

 even very hard conditions. 



FAMILY ALAUDIDM: LARKS 



r. Streaked horned lark, Otocoris alpes- 

 tris strigata. 7.00 



Distribution: Pacific Coast region from 

 British Columbia to California; migrating to 

 eastern Washington and Oregon, and south- 

 ward. 



The horned lark is the only representative 

 found in North America of a world-wide 

 family; the one species, with about a dozen 

 geographical races, being scattered from Hud- 

 son Bay to Mexico. Those birds living in 

 desert areas are lighter in coloration than 

 those inhabiting the more humid districts. 

 In the Pacific Coast districts the dusky 

 horned lark is found from British Columbia 

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