meiits. 



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the same clutch, and are not always to be distincjuished from some esss 

 of the Crested Larks. The ground colour is glossy greyish or creamy Avhite, 

 generally thickly covered with small spots of yellowish or hair brown and 

 underlying grey shell markings. 



Average of 30 eggs (7 by Erlanger, 6 by Whitaker and 17 by the Measure- 

 writer), 23.5 X 17.46 mm., Max. 25.2 X 17.3 and 23.2 X 18.2 mm., Min. 

 21.6 X 17 and 23 X 16.5 mm. Average weight of 7 eggs (Erlanger) 214 mg. 



[Further south a rufous form, C. duponti margaritae (Kon.) is found. 

 Average of 14 eggs taken by Erlanger (Mar. 28 to April 9), 22.28 X 16.82 

 mm. Average weight 192 mg.] 



70. Shore Lark, Eremopliila alpcstris L.* 

 Geographical Races. 



a. X. European Shore Lark, E. alpestris flara (Gmel.). 



Plate 17, fig. 9—12 (Norway). 



Eggs: Thienemann, Fortpfl., Tab. XXVI, fig. 3, a— d. Hewitson, 

 III. Ed. I, pi. XLV.* Baedeker, Tab. 66, fig. 1. Seebohm, Brit. Birds, 

 pi. 15; id. Col. Fig., pi. 58. Newton, Ootheca Wolleyana, Tab. XI, fig. 13—18. 



Nests: Pearson, Beyond Petsora, pi. 23; Three Summers, pi. 32, a, b. 



Foreign Names: Bohemia: ShHvcm podliorni. Finland: Tunturileivo. 

 France: Aloiiette de la Siberie. Germany: Alpenlerche, Ohrenlerclie. Holland: 

 Bergleeuiverik. Italy: Lodola gola gialla. Lapland: Ruossa Alap. Norway: 

 Fjeldlaerke. Russia: JavronoJc snejny. Sweden: Bergllirka. 



Otocorys alpestris (L.). Newton, ed. Yarrell, I, p. 604; Dresser, Birds 

 of Europe, IV, p. 387; id. Man. Pal. Birds, p. 378; Saunders, Man., p. 259. 

 Eremopliila alpestris flava (Gm.). Hartert, Vog. Pal. Fauna, p. 255. 



Breeding Range: N. Europe within the Arctic Circle. [Also N. 

 Siberia.] 



This species is common during the breeding season in the N. of Con 

 Scandinavia, especially throughout Finmark, but a few pairs also nest above 

 the limits of tree growth as far south in Norway as the Dovrefjeld and 

 Ror&s. In Sweden it breeds on the fells in Lapland, and according to 

 Kolthoff has even nested in Jemtland on the Orviksfjellen. In Russian 

 Lapland nests have been found in the alpine region of the north of Fin- 

 land, as well as in the low lying country along the Murman coast. On 

 Kolguev it is plentiful, and breeds also on Dolgoi, and in some numbers 

 on Waigatz. It is also found on Nova^'a Zemlya, but in smaller numbers, 

 and in the Archangel Government on the mainland of N. Russia. Formerly" 



* Linnes Alauda alpestris is based on specimens described from Carolina, and 

 the name E. alpestris alpestris (L.) is therefore restricted to the N. American form. 



tiiiental 

 Europe. 



