360 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
Famity XXXIX. ALAUDIDA, Lars. 
CLXVI. ALAUDA Linnéus. 1758. 
473. Skylark. 
Alauda arvensis LINN. 1758. 
Accidental in Greenland and Bermuda. (A. O. U. Check-List.) 
CLXVII. OTOCORIS Bonaparte. 1838. 
474. Horned Lark. 
Otocoris alpestris (Lixn.) Bonar. 1838. 
One shot at Godthaab in October, 1835, but known before to 
occur on the other side of Davis Strait at Cape Wilson, toth July, 
1822. (Arct. Man.) Common summer resident in Labrador. 
Breeds at the mouth of the Koksoak River and at Rigolet. 
(Packard.) Common and breeding on the-rocky islands of James 
Bay from Moose Factory to Richmond Gulf: not observed in the 
interior of Labrador between Richmond Gulf and Ungava Bay in 
1896. (Spreadborough.) Greenland, Newfoundland, Labrador and 
Hudson Bay, southward in winter into the United States. Our 
bird breeds far north of the United States, about the shores of 
Hudson Bay, Labrador and Newfoundland. Breeding birds have 
been examined from Fort Chimo and Davis Inlet, Labrador ; 
Penguin Island, Cape St. Mary, and Canada Bay, Newfoundland ; 
Moose Fort, James Bay; non-breeding from Toronto and Rat 
Portage, Lake of the Woods, Ontario; also from Manitoba. 
(Dwight.) Common during the spring and autumn migrations, 
in Nova Scotia. (Dowmns.) A winter resident at St. John, New 
Brunswick. (Chamberlain.) Taken at Beauport; a migrant in 
Quebec. (Deonne.) <A transient visitant at Montreal; scarce. I 
shot five specimens of this species out of about a dozen found 
feeding on the river ice-roads in front of the city, April 8th, 
1887, but since that time have not met with them, in the spring of 
the year; in the autumn only from Oct. 20—26th. (Winile.) The 
horned larks of the Ottawa district were for the first time satis- 
factorily determined and distinguished in the spring of 1890. 
This species arrived April 19th and remained together in flocks 
till May 25th, when it departed ; it was again present in the fall 
from September 26th to October 28th. (Oztawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) 
Formerly common at Toronto; Mr. Lamb of Toronto has a 
specimen taken at Gravenhurst in Muskoka district. (J. H. Flem- 
