LARKS: Family Alaudidae [ 401 ] 



to go back to the days when the world was young. It is perhaps the 

 surroundings, but there is something in that call that makes it the vocal 

 expression of all that is wild and intractable in the wilderness. No 

 matter how many times it has been heard, it is a red-letter day when 

 Nuttallornis completes his spring journey northward and announces to all 

 concerned that he is back again to take up the love-making and fly- 

 catching left unfinished at the fall departure. 



The Olive-sided Flycatcher prefers the spruce and fir forests and con- 

 sequently is a common resident of the higher parts of the Cascades, the 

 Blue Mountains, and the Canadian Zone strip along the coast. It is also 

 found, though less commonly, along the foothills of the Willamette 

 Valley, in the Warner Mountains and on Hart Mountain in eastern Lake 

 County. It arrives in May (earliest date, May i, Tillamook County) and 

 remains until September (latest date, September 15). 



As in so many other cases, the honor of being the first to list this bird 

 as an Oregon species goes to Bendire (1877), who found it rare in the 

 hills above Camp Harney. Not far behind, Mearns (1879) found it at 

 Fort Klamath, and since that time it has been listed by many others. 

 Loomis (1901) stated that on September 9, 1898, one came aboard ship 

 off the mouth of Rogue River. Bendire (i89$a) listed it as a breeding 

 species, as have several others in manuscript notes, but the only actual 

 nest we have found was one located by Jewett at Strawberry Lake (Grant 

 County), July 13, 1915. This nest was on the lower limb of a spruce about 

 8 feet from the ground and contained five downy young. Patterson dis- 

 covered two nests in the Klamath country on June 2.0 and 2.6, 192.3. 



Larks: Family Alaudidae 



Pallid Horned Lark: 



Otocoris alpestris arcticola Oberholser 



DESCRIPTION.- Adult male: Front of crown hornlike tufts; lores, cheeks, and shield 

 on breast black; back of head and neck, upper tail coverts, and bend of wing pinkish 

 cinnamon; forehead, superciliary stripe, ear coverts, and throat white; rest of under 

 parts white, sides and flanks shaded with cinnamon; back pale grayish streaked 

 with brown. Female: Like male, but black of head replaced by brownish and buffy; 

 back of neck, bend of wing, and upper tail coverts cinnamon without pinkish tinge; 

 back of neck narrowly streaked, superciliary and ear coverts buffy; sides and flanks 

 streaked with dusky. (Adapted from Bailey.) Si%e: Length (skins) 6.30-7.50, 

 wing 4.00-4.50, tail 2.. 44-2.. 91, bill .37-. 47. Nest: A slight depression in the ground, 

 lined with fine grasses and roots. Eggs: 3 or 4, grayish or greenish marked with 

 brown. 



DISTRIBUTION. General: Breeds from Alaska (except in Pacific Coast strip) south in 

 mountains to northern Washington. Winters to Oregon and Utah. In Oregon: 

 Known only as winter migrant from December to February. 



