NO. 1271. REVIEW OF THE HORNED LARKS— OBERHOLSER. 809 
The Crown of the Head is mixt witli black and yellow feathers. Throngh the 
Eyes runs a stripe of yellow. From the Angle of the Mouth runs a l)la('k stripe, 
inclining downward; except which, the Throat and Neck are yellow. They frequent 
the Sand-IIills upon the Sea-shore of Carolina. 
These remarks, save, of course, that reg-ardhis^' locality, do not 
well apph' to what we now call pmticola^ which rarely, if ever, 
has the superciliary distinctl}^ yellow, while the usually very pale 
yellow of the throat is confined chiefly to the central portion. Ywv- 
thermove^praticola, compared with what we now know as alpesii'is, 
has the crown very gray, lacking- the conspicuous 3'ellow suffusion 
so characteristic of the latter. Althoug'h Catesby states that this 
species occurs in both Virginia and Carolina, hi.s type undoubtedl}- came 
from the latter region, for he savs in the introduction that none of his 
own work was done in Virginia. The only other name requiring con- 
sideration in this connection is Alduda cor/nUa,^ which was, however, 
evidently' founded upon the 3'ellow- browed alpestri.s from the Middle 
Atlantic States, and is thus an undoubted sv^nonym of the present form. 
We know nothing of true alpei<fr!i< during the breeding season, 
except as a littoral bird, though it possiblv occurs at that time in suit- 
able situations over most, if not all, of the region east of Hudson Bay. 
It is the l)reeding form at Moose Fort, Ontario, on the southern shore 
of James Ba3% as a specimen in the U. S. National Museum attests, 
but this is the most southern as Avell as the most western summer 
record. The area of its transition to Jioytl is likewise scarcel3' more 
than inferentiall3" known. In winter alpestris wanders as far west as 
Manitoba, and south regularly to Missouri, Ohio, and South Carolina, 
being apparently most al)undant in New England and on the coastal 
plain of the Atlantic States, There are several records for the Ber- 
muda Islands,' but apparently onh' one for Greenland.'' It sometimes 
remains comparatively late in the spring, as is shown by examples from 
northern Ohio taken on the 1st of April. The single specimen from 
Wooster, Ohio, several 3'ears ago recorded as alpestrU,^ proves u|)on 
closer examination to be wQ'AXi^.x praticola. 
As in most of the other races there is much variation in the color of 
the upper parts, independent of intergradation, some specimens being 
ver3' reddish, others quite grayish and pinkish. The e3"ebrow in typi- 
cal specimens appears alwa3's to be yellow, the throat quite uniforml3" 
so, paler, of cour.se, in females and breeding males; this color in win- 
ter males not infrequentl3' more or less conspicuously tinging the 
breast below the l)lack jugulunl. 
• Wilson, Amer. Ornith., I, 1S08, p. S7. 
MVedderburn, in Jardine's Contr. Orn., 1850, p. .'IB; Reid, Bulletin U.S.N. M., No. 
25, 1884, pp. 177, 178. 
^Reinhardt, Ibis., 1801, p. 8. 
^Oberholser, Bull. Oiiio Agric. Exper. Sta., Tech. Ser. I, No. 4, 1896, p. 297. 
