ALAUDID.i: — THK LARKS — KREMOPHILA. 



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Genus EREMOPHILA, Boie. 



Eremopliihi, Boie, Isis, 1828, 322. (Type, Aluiidu ulpeslris. Not sufficiently distinct from 



Enmuphilus, Humboldt (Fishes), 1805.) 

 Phileremcs, Brehm, Dcutschl. Vijgel, 1831. 

 " 0/ocoris," BoNAP.iRTE, List, 1839. (Type, Alaiida aljicstris," Grxx.) 





Gex. Char. First primary wanting; ; bill scari-ely hijilicr than broail ; nostrils circular, 

 concealed b)- a dense tuft of feathers ; the nasal Ibssoe oblique. A pectoral crescent and 

 cheek patches of black. 



Eremopliila cornuta, \\'il.s()N. 

 THE HORNED LABK. 



Alaiida cornuta, WiLSOx, Am. (hii. I. 1808, 85 (in text). — Eremophila cornuta, Boie, Isis, 

 1828,322. — Baird, P. R. Rep. IX. Birds, 403 ; X. iii. 13, pi. xxxii. — Cooper and 

 SuCKLEV, XIL iii. Zool. of W. T. 195. — Coues, Pr. A. N. So. 1866, 79. 



Alaudu alpeslris, Forster, Pliil. Trans. LXII. 1772, 383. — WiLSOx, Am. Orn. I. 1808, 85 ; 

 pi. V. f. 4. — Audubon', Birds Amer. IIL 1841, 44; pi. 151. — OtocorU alpcstris,'Ni:\Y- 

 BKRRY, P. R. Rep. VI. iv. 88. — Heermann, P. R. Rep. X. vi. 45. 



Phllercmos cornu/us, Bonai'ahte, List, 1838. 



WESTERN AND SOUTHERN VARIETY. 



Alaudu clm/soltema, Wagler, Isis, 1831, 350. — Bonaparte, Pr. Zuol. Soc. 1837, 111. 



Alauda minor, Giraud, Sixteen Spec. Texas Birds, 1841. 



Alauda rufa, Audubox, Birds Amer. VII. 1843, 353 ; pi. 497. — Olocoris rufa, IIeermaxn, 



P. R. Rep. X. vi. 45. 

 Olocoris occidenlalis, M'Cai.1., Pr. A. N. S. Pliil. V. .luno, 1831, 218, Santc Fe. — Baird, 



Stansbury's Report, 1852, 318. 



Sp. Cii.vk. Above, pinkish-brown, the feathers of the back streaked with dusky. A 

 broad band across the crown, extending backwards along the lateral tufts : a crescentic 



