No.iiiTi. JiEVIEW OF THE JIORNKD LARK.S—OBEllHOLSEll. yi5 
York, placed by Dr. D wight ^ under leucolcema {=arcticola) probably 
heloiigs also to Jn>;/tl. 
This race o-onci"ally has a yellow throat, though pale, but exanipK^s 
occasionally occur which lack almost entirely any trace of this color. 
'I'he eyebrow in typical specimens is nearly always white, though 
occasionally it, as well as the light area on the sides of the neck, are 
tinged with yellow. Considera])le variation exists in the amount of 
dark streaking on the back, some birds being \qvy broadly thus 
marked, others inconspicuously; this difference observable in the 
breeding season as well as in winter. 
It may, perhaps, be well to call attention to an excusable mistake 
made b}" Dr. Dwight, chiefly because it undoubtedly contributed to 
his failure to recognize the present form as distinct from arcttcola. 
In the U. S. National Museum collection are several breeding birds 
from Foi't Reliance, Northwest Territory, which place Dr. Dwight 
located at the eastern extremit}^ of Great Slave Lake, whereas it is, 
or rather was, for the post is now abandoned, on the Yukon liiver, 
not far east of the Alaskan boundary. The ]>irds from Fort Reliance, 
on the Yukon, are typical (ircticola, while those from the region of 
Great Slave Lake aa'e equally characteristic of hoijtl; so it may readily 
be seen that this error of nearly a thousand miles in the location of 
Fort Reliance very naturally obscured the evidences of geographical 
variation really existing. 
Seventy-nine specimens of this form have been examined, repre- 
senting the localities given below, breeding records as before being- 
noted by an asterisk: 
Iowa. — Sergeant Blutl's. 
Kansas. — Fort Riley; Emporia; INlarshall. 
Michigan. — Grand Rapids, 
Mln nesota . — Madi son . 
Worth Dakota. — Riviere de Lacs; Souris River; Towner County. 
NehrasJca. — Papillion; Piatt Center. 
Neixida. — Steamboat Valley. 
New Yorh.—Liowg Island City. 
Oh w. — Wooster. 
XJtah.—OA.m\) Floyd. 
A Iberta. — Calgary . 
Assln Ihoia. — Indian Head. 
Northwest Terrltoi-y. — Fort Resolution;* Arctic coast east of Fort 
Anderson;* Big Island, Great Slav^e Lake;* Franklin Bay;* Depot 
Island;* Fort Chippewyan,* Lake Athabasca;* Grand Rapids; Fort 
Churchill;* Cape Eskimo.* 
SaskatcJicwan. — St. Louis. 
Ank, VII, 1890, p. 143. 
