NO. 1271. REVIEW OF THE HORNED LARKS— OBERHOLSER. 869 
flanks fulvous; l)ill l)lack above, pale near the base below; legs black, 
soles of feet yellowish."^ 
Adult male in to inter plumage. — No. 101985, U.S.N.M. ; Sikhira, 
India, 1874. Back, wings and middle tail-feathers fuscous, all the 
feathers margined with ochraceous or buffy ochraceous; rest of tail 
brownish black, the outer feathers edged exteriorly with white; occi- 
put, cervix and bend of wing pinkish vinaceous, the two first streaked 
and clouded with ])rownish; upper tail-coverts deep vinaceou.s cinna- 
mon; forehead, superciliary stripe, part of auriculars, chin, throat, 
and under surface, except jugulum, white, shaded with cinnamon 
on sides and flanks, spotted with dusky on breast; crown, horns, 
lores, cheeks and jugulum black, more or less obscured by grayish 
tips of the feathers. 
Adult female in vnnter plumage. — No. 101986, U.S.N.M.; Darjeel- 
ing, India, 187-4. Similar to the male, but more ochraceous above, 
the occiput, cervix and upper tail-coverts deep cinnamon ochraceous, 
streaked with brown; black of head either much mixed with ochra- 
ceous or replaced h^ brownish. 
Of the tw^o names here treated as sj'nonyms of ehnesi, the first, 
Otocovys n/'gr/frons Prejewalsky, has not been verified and is there- 
fore somewhat doubtfully identical. The other, Otocorys teleschowi 
Prejewalsky, from northwestern Ti])et, is possibl}" separable as a race, 
but with our scanty material we are unable to settle the question. In 
fact the dimensions Prejewalsky gives are more nearl}^ those of siMrica 
than of elwes/\ but unless the name is based on winter specimens from 
a more northern home, it is probably correctly located near or under 
the present subspecies. 
This race of the eastern Himalayas differs from longh'osfr/'s in its 
much inferior size and rather lighter more ochraceous colors, particu- 
larl}^ on the upper surface. In winter dress the spotting of the breast 
is much more pronounced. 
As with most of the Old World forms of Otocoris the series at hand 
is too limited to render satisfactor}'^ any comparisons of individual 
variations. These are, however, probably much the same as obtain 
throughout the genus. 
Available material is lacking to establish the precise limits of the 
distribution of ehresi to the \yestward along the Himalayas; or to the 
northward beyond the mountains of northern Tibet, if indeed it 
reaches the latter region. 
OTOCORIS LONGIROSTRIS PERISSA, new subspecies. 
Otocoi-ys longirostris Sh.^rpe, Cat. Birda Brit. Mas., XIII, 1890, p. 5.30 (part). 
Chars, snhsj). — Similar to Otocoris I. elwesi., but umch larger, and 
more rufescent above. 
1 Blaiifunl, J(jurn. As. Soc. Bengal, 1872, p. 62. 
