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GENUS OTOCORIS BONAPARTE. 



Otocoris BONAPARTE, Nuovi Ann. Sci. Nat. [Bologna], II, 1838, 407. 

 Type, by monotypy, Phileremos cornutus BONAPABTE = Alauda cornuta 

 WILSON = Alauda alpestris LINN.EUS. 



Otocoris alpestris (LINNAEUS). 



RANGE. North America, northern South America, northern Africa, 

 Europe, and Asia. 



a. Otocoris alpestris alpestris (LINNJSUS). Horned Lark. [474.] 



Alauda alpestris LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 166. (Sea shore 

 of Carolina.) 



RANGE. Eastern North America. Breeds in Arctic Zone of Canada from 

 Boothia Peninsula south to head of James Bay, Labrador, and Newfoundland; 

 winters south to the Ohio Valley and Georgia ; casual in Louisiana and Ber- 

 muda; accidental in Greenland. 



b. Otocoris alpestris arcticola OBERHOLSER. Pallid Horned Lark. [474a.] 



Otocoris alpestris arcticola OBERHOLSER, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXI V> 

 1902, 816. (Fort Reliance, Yukon, Canada.) 



RANGE. Northwestern North America. Breeds in Alaska (except Pacific 

 coast strip) and in upper Yukon Valley; winters south to Oregon, Utah, and 

 Montana. 



c. Otocoris alpestris praticola HENSHAW. Prairie Horned Lark. [4746.] 



Otocorys alpestris praticola HENSHAW, Auk, I, July, 1884, 264. (Richland 

 County, Illinois.) 



RANGE. Northeastern United States and Canada. Breeds chiefly in 

 Transition Zone from southern Manitoba and southern Quebec to eastern 

 Kansas, southern Missouri, Ohio, West Virginia, and Connecticut; winters 

 south to Texas, Tennessee, and Georgia, and casually to Arizona and Colorado. 



d. Otocoris alpestris leucolsema (COUES). Desert Horned Lark. [474c.] 



Eremophila alpestris var. leucolcema COUES, Birds N. W., 1874, 38, 39. 

 (Fort Randall, South Dakota.) 



RANGE. Great Plains and Great Basin. Breeds chiefly in Transition Zone 

 from southern Alberta and southern Saskatchewan to southern Nevada, north- 

 ern New Mexico, and western Kansas; winters south to southeastern California, 

 Texas, and Sonora. 



