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1. Smaller, wing 4 to 43, averaging 4! se upper parts paler, 
more grayish and pinkish.......... ae) 
2. Throat, forehead, and ire over eye deep: elle eae calor 
often suffusing rest of crown, occiput and auriculars.Horned Lark. 
2. Throat pale yellow at least centrally, forehead, line over eye, 
and rest of pale areas on head white... . .Hoyt Horned Lark. 
3. Throat yellowish white, the line over eye Dauety eae upper 
parts paler, more sandy brown than blackish; nape, upper tail- 
-coverts, and bend of wing more pinkish....... Desert Horned Lark. 
3. Throat pale yellow, the line over eye usually all white; upper parts 
darker, more blackish than brown; nape, upper tail-coverts and 
bend of wing less pinkish...................Prairie Horned Lark. 
474. Otocoris alpestris (Linnaeus) —HorNeEp LARK. 
474b. 
474c. 
474k. 
The typical form, breeding from Labrador to Hudson bay, in win- 
ter descends chiefly along the Atlantic coast, but occasionally in the 
Mississippi valley also to Illinois. A single specimen, taken at Lin- 
coln by a student in the taxidermy class (full data unfortunately lost) 
has been identified by Oberholser as typical alpestris. This record 
extends the known winter range of this species considerably westward. 
*Otocoris alpestris praticola Henshaw—Pratirie HoRNED Lark. 
Eastern and especially southeastern Nebraska; common resident; 
in summer rare west of the 97th meridian, in winter straggling west- 
ward half way across the state. Breeds from late March to well into 
July. Omaha, Peru, Lincoln, Beatrice, West Point—breeding. 
*Otocoris alpestris leucoleama (Coues)—DESERT HORNED LARK. 
Greater portion of state especially westward; an abundant 
resident, breeding east to at least the 99th meridian and northward 
even farther, in winter over whole state but uncommon eastward. 
Sioux, Cheyenne, Dundy, and Cherry counties, to Niobrara, Neligh, 
etc.—breeding. Under this name are included those specimens re- 
ferable to Oberholser’s form enthymia which he has identified from 
specimens taken at Valentine and Harrison. 
Otocoris alpestris hoyti Bishop—Hoyr Hornep Lark. 
Regular winter visitant, occurring over the entire state, never so 
common as the two preceding forms and appearing usually in Febru- 
ary. Breeds far north, from Hudson bay to the Mackenzie river and 
south to Lake Athabasca. Oberholser has identified it from Pap- 
illion, Platte Center, and Lincoln. It is here that most, if not all, 
of the previous Nebraska records of the typical alpestris and of the 
large so-called ‘Jewcolema’’ (=arcticola) belong. Omaha, West 
Point, Covington. - 
Famitry CORVIDH—Jays, Crows, Macarius, Ec. 
1. Color wholly black (2)—mostly blue (5)—neither wholly black nor 
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