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TIIK WESTKKX I.AKK SI'AI^OW. 



browns or purplish blacks, cliicfly at tlie larjjcr end; notably rounded in sha])e. 

 Av. size .8j x .()5 I 20.8 x 16.5). Scastni: May I5-Juni' 5; one brorKl. rarely two. 

 General Range. — Western I'nited States and plateau of Mexico; north to 

 middle Kriiisli COlunibia. Manitoba, etc.; east to eastern Ijorder of Great Plains; 

 west to Tacilic Coast, including ]>eninsula of lower California: south in winter to 

 Guatemala. 



Pholo by 

 the Author. 



Range in VS'ashington. — Summer resident east of Cascades only, in L'pper 

 Sonoran and Arid Transition zones. 



Migrations. — W'allula, May 6, u^O/ : \'akima Co., May i, K/y); ibid. May 

 3, lyoo; Cliclan, May 19, 1896. 



Authorities. — ('Western lark linch," Johnson, Rep. Gov. W. T., 1884 

 ( 188; ). 22. \ Bclding, Land Birds Pacilic District ( i8<jo), p. 148 (Walla Walla, 

 j. W". Williams. 1885). (T.) (C&S.) D-. IK Ss'. Ss^ J. 



Specimens. — ( U. of W. ) C. P. 



.\S in the case <>f the Sandwich and .Sawnina Si)arn>\\s. the curiously 

 striped coloration of this bird s head is cvidaitly intended to facilitate conceal- 

 ment. The bird ixjerinp; out of a weed clump is almost invisible. .\nd yet. as 

 I was once passing along a sage-clarl hillside in Chelan county with an observ- 



