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GENUS OTOCORIS Bonaparte. 
Otocoris BonaPpartTE, Nuovi Ann. Sci. Nat. [Bologna], II, 1838, 407. 
Type, by monotypy, Phileremos cornutus BONAPARTE = Alauda cornuta 
Witson = Alauda alpestris LINNXUS. 
Otécoris alpéstris (LINN Us). 
Rance.— North America, northern South America, northern Africa, 
Europe, and Asia. 
a. Otocoris alpestris alpestris (LINNmus). Horned Lark. [474.] 
Alauda alpestris LiInNaxus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 166. (Sea shore 
of Carolina.) 
Rance.— Eastern North America. Breeds in Arctic Zone of Canada from 
Boothia Peninsula south to head of James Bay, Labrador, and Newfoundland; 
winters south to the Ohio Valley and Georgia; casual in Louisiana and Ber- 
muda; accidental in Greenland. 
b. Otocoris alpestris arcticola OprRHOLSER. Pallid Horned Lark. [474a.] 
Otocoris alpestris arcticola OBBRHOLSER, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIV; 
1902, 816. (Fort Reliance, Yukon, Canada.) 
Rance.— Northwestern North America. Breeds in Alaska (except Pacific 
coast strip) and in upper Yukon Valley; winters south to Oregon, Utah, and 
Montana. 
c. Otocoris alpestris praticola HensHAw. Prairie Horned Lark. [474b.] 
Otocorys alpestris praticola HensHaw, Auk, I, July, 1884, 264. (Richland 
County, Illinois.) 
Rance.— Northeastern United States and Canada. Breeds chiefly in 
Transition Zone from southern Manitoba and southern Quebec to eastern 
Kansas, southern Missouri, Ohio, West Virginia, and Connecticut; winters 
south to Texas, Tennessee, and Georgia, and casually to Arizona and Colorado. 
d. Otocoris alpestris leucoléma (Cours). Desert Horned Lark. [474c.] 
Eremophila alpestris var. leucolema Cours, Birds N. W., 1874, 38, 39. 
(Fort Randall, South Dakota.) 
Ranae.— Great Plains and Great Basin. Breeds chiefly in Transition Zone 
from southern Alberta and southern Saskatchewan to southern Nevada, north- 
ern New Mexico, and western Kansas; winters south to southeastern California, 
Texas, and Sonora. 
