NO. 1271. REVIEW OF THE HORNED LARKS— OBERHOLSER. 839 
There i.s much variation in the amount and intensity' of the yellow in 
this race, which color i« .seemingly seldom, if ever, wholly lacking in 
either sex. In the males it is usuall}^ present to a greater or less 
degree on the breast, often tinging the remainder of the lower surface 
in worn as well as unworn plumage. The shade of the nape is also 
((uite variable, even in birds of similar season from the same locality. 
Twenty-eight specimens have been examined, from the subjoined 
localities: 
California. — Red Bluff; San Francisco. 
('^/vY/o/^— Umatilla; The Dalles;* Forest Grove;* Albany; McCoy; 
Salem;* Corvallis.-- 
Washington. — South Tacoma;* Colton; Ridgefield;* Fort Steila- 
coom;* Hillhurst;* Rockland;* North Dalles;* Shoalwater Bay.* 
OTOCORIS ALPESTRIS INSULARIS Townsend. 
Otocorls alpestris sirigata Dwight, Auk, VII, April, 1890, p. 151-152 (part). 
Otocoris ulpeslria imularin Townsend, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XIII, 1890, p. 140. — 
RuKJWAV, Man. N. Am. Birds, 2d. ed., 1896, p. 599. 
Chai'K. Kuhsj). — Like Otocoris a. strigata^ but darker, somewhat less 
ochraceous above, less 3'ellowish on breast and abdomen. 
Measurerrievits {15 males). — Wing, 96-101 (average, 97.1) mm.; tail, 
00-68 (average, 64.4) mm. ; exposed culmen, 10-13 (average, 11.3) mm. ; 
tarsus, 21-23 (average, 22) mm. ; middle toe, 11-13 (average, 11.9) mm. 
Type locality. — San Clemente Island, California. 
(rcographical distrihution. — The Santa Barbara Islands, California. 
Apparently resident. 
Description. — Adult mcde in hreeding lylimiage. — No. 117652, 
U.S.N.M.; San Clemente Island, California, May 8, 1888; C. H. 
Townsend. —Back, wings and two middle tail-feathers sepia, edged 
with l)utf'y and ochraceous; rest of tail brownish black, the outer pair 
of feathers margined exteriorly with white; occiput, cervix, bend of 
wing and upper tail-coverts deep cinnamon rufous; crown, horns, 
lores, cheeks and jugulum black; forehead, superciliary stripe, auric- 
ulars. chin and throat pale ^yellow; rest of lower surface white, the 
sides and Hanks tinged with cinnamomeous and streaked with dusk}". 
Adult female in hreeding plumage. — No. 139946, U.S.N.M., Bio- 
logical Survey Collection; San Miguel Island, California, June 24, 
1892; C. P. Streator. — Similar to the male, but cervix, occiput and 
upper tail-coverts pale cinnamon, the two first streaked with fuscous; 
bend of wing less deeply and less extensively cinnamon rufous; black 
of top and sides of head replaced by dark ))rown mixed with bufl'y: 
yellow of throat and head rather paler; breast washed with cinnamon. 
AduU nude in ininter 2^lumage—^o. 134809, U.S.N.M.; San 
Clemente Island, California, August 28, 1894; Dr. Edgar A. Mearns.— 
Like the summer male, but upper surface rather paler and more 
