CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 4OI 



474 i. Dusky Horned Lark. 



Otocoris alpestris merrilli D wight. 1890. 



In summer to southern British Columbia. Specimens examined 

 from ChilHwack, Kamloops, Osoyoos, Ashcroft and Sumas lake. 

 {Oberholser.) 



Specimens of this form in breeding plumage have been examined 

 from Ashcroft and Kamloops, B.C. ; non-breeding from ChilH- 

 wack. (Dwight.) Observed only in the interior at favourable local- 

 ities. A few pairs were found on a mountain near Ashcroft, B.C., 

 in July and were doubtless breeding. (Streaior.) This form was 

 found breeding at Spence Bridge and ten miles south of Kamloops, 

 B.C., by some alkali ponds in June, 1889; one specimen, a young 

 male, was taken June 24th at Kamloops, B.C. (Spreadborough.) 

 Taken at Chilliwack, B.C. (Brooks.) 



47 U: Hoyt Horned Lark. 



Otocoris alpestris hoyti Bishop. 1896. 



In summer, British America from the west shore of Hudson bay 

 to the valley of the Mackenzie river north to the Arctic coast and- 

 south to Lake Athabaska. Breeding birds of this form have been 

 examined from Fort Resolution and Big island. Great Slave lake; 

 Arctic coast east of Fort Anderson and Franklin bay ; Depot island ; 

 Fort Chipweyan, Lake Athabaska ; Grand rapids of the Saskatch- 

 ewan; and Fort Churchill, Hudson bay and Cape Eskimo 50 miles 

 north of Churchill. Non-breeding birds, Calgary, Alberta; and 

 from Indian Head, Sask. {Oberholser.) Common everywhere on 

 the Barrens north to Aylmer lake, 1907. {E. T. Seton.) 



Some references given under other forms should doubtless go here. 

 Family XL. CORVID.aE, Crows, Jays, Magpies. 

 CXCII. PICA. Brisson. 1760. 

 475. American Magpie. 



Pica pica hudsonia (Sab.) Jordan. 1884. 



An accidental visitant at Montreal. A magpie was shot at 

 Chambly, twenty miles southeast of Montreal, about the year 1883. 

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