NO. 1271. REVIEW OF THE HORNED LARKS— OBERHOLISER. 813 
Back and wings dark brown, edged with paler; occiput, nape and 
bend of wing- pinki.sh vinaceous; upper tail-coverts vinaceous cinna- 
mon; middle tail-feathers like those of back, the rest black, the outer 
pair margined and tipped with white; crown, lores, cheeks and jugular 
crescent black; forehead, superciliary and sides of throat dull white; 
center of throat v(mt pale yellowish; i-emainder of lower ]xirts dull 
white, the sides washed with brownish. 
Adult fr male in hnciVnuj plniiuK/r. — No. 43258, U.S.N.M. ; Frank- 
lin Bay, British AnuM-ica. July !», ISG-t; 11. MacFarlane.— Similar to 
to adult male, l)ut back darker with paler edging-s to the feathers, 
imparting a l)righter, more mottled appearance; black of head much 
mixed witli l)rown; na])c more cinnamomeous, and obscured by 
brownish; under surface duller, the black on juguhmi less extensive 
and the diin paler yellowish. 
A<hilf null,' In njlnfrrj>JiinKi(j>'. — No. 6588-1, U.S.N.M. ; Souris River, 
North Dakota, Oct. 1, 1873; E. Coues.— Like the summer dress, but 
uppei- parts more l)lended by brownish tips to the feathers, the black 
of head much obscured; l)reast with some dusky spotting-. 
Adult female hi v'i)der plumage. — No. 658S2, U.S.N.M.; Riviere 
de Lacs, North Dakota, Sept. 13, 1873; E. Coues. -Plumage above 
duller and moie uniform than in summer, the decided contrasts 
obscured; superciliary stripe and liglit areas of neck and throat 
washed with dusky, the black areas much obscured; throat rather 
more deeply yellow, breast and sides more heavily tinged with 
))rownish. 
Young in first j)lumage. — No. 511)03, U.S.N.M.; iVrctic coast east of 
Fort Anderson, July 3, 1805; R. MacFarlane. Head and back black- 
ish s(>pia, varied with ochraceous and spotted with buffy white; nape 
buffy, ))arred with dark l)rown; wings and tail fuscous, margined with 
ochraceous; superciliary stripe buffy, poorly defined; cheeks dull 
brownish; throat yellowish white; breast buffy, spotted with dull 
brown; remainder of lower parts dull Inifiy white, the sides with 
markings of dull brown. 
The most conspicuou.s character distinguishing hoyti from alpestris 
is the restriction and dilution of the yellow on the head and throat. 
In //^>y//this color is usually pale and confined to the middle of the 
throat, the eyebrow ])eing white, while in alpestris the throat, fore- 
head and superciliary stripe are deep 3^ellow, this color often suffusing 
the crown and occiput. The shade of the upper parts in hoyti averages 
rather less ferruginous l)rown, particularly in the females, but there 
is so much individual variation in this respect that the character is 
hardly of much value in identification. From arcticola the present 
form differs in the darker, more rufescent upper parts, and in the 
generally distinctly yellow^ throat. There should be no difficulty in 
