1890.] Dwight on the Horned Larks. I c I 



east, it does not seem to partake of their characters, and 'intergrades' 

 are few. Though the material at hand only proves that it inhab- 

 its the Sacramento Valley between the Sierras and the Coast 

 Range, it is probable that it will be found in the San Joaquin 

 Vallev along the western slope of the Sierras as far south as the 

 same conditions of rainfall and similarity of country prevail. It 

 seems to be largely resident. Mr. Henshaw described as his fe- 

 male type of this race (Auk, 1SS4, p. 267) the female from 

 Santa Rosalia Bay (No. 82,413, U. S. Nat. Mus.) that Mr. 

 Townsend has now referred to pallida. It certainly is not rubea^ 

 and strange to say bears no type label, while No. 83,968 from 

 Placer Co., Cala., is labelled as a type and is a typical female. 

 For the sake of accuracy I call attention to this hitherto unex- 

 plained changing of labels. 



Average measurements of 13 breeding males: wing, 99.6 mm. (3.92 

 in.); tail, 69.1 mm. (2.72 in.); tarsus, 21. 1 mm. (.83 in.); bill from 

 nostril, 8.6 mm. (.34 in.). 



Specimens examined: $, 22; $, 11; young in first plumage, 1. 

 Localities represented: *Stockton, *Placer Co., *Yuba Co., Gridley, 

 *Red Bluff, and *Mt. Lassen, Cala. 



9. Otocoris alpestris strigata Hensh. Streaked Horned 



Lark. 



Habitat. — Coast region of Oregon, Washington [and British 

 Columbia?], west of the Cascade Mountains, and Santa Cruz 

 group of islands, California. 



This race has credit for more streaking and more yellow than it 

 deserves. By rumpling the feathers of the back of almost any of the 

 other forms a heavily streaked effect may be obtained, and the ex- 

 treme yellowness below of the type specimens is not supported by 

 the small series I have before me. It is darker than any of the 

 other races except merrilli, and, compared with it, is not so broadly 

 streaked, and is browner and more yellowish tinged at all sea- 

 sons. The nape is of a deep vinaceous-cinnamon while in mer- 

 rilli it is much paler. The yellow on the throat is a little deeper 

 and often tinges the breast, sometimes extending over the whole 

 of the lower parts, but the amount of yellow is a most mislead- 

 ing and variable quantity, as we see in the other races, and I 

 cannot but conclude that the types are birds abnormally yellow. 

 Analogous specimens may be selected from merrilli, giraudi. 



