order passeres. i9i 



Suborder OSCINES. Song Birds. 

 Family ALAUDID^. Larks. 



Genus ALAUDA Linnaeus. 



Alauda Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 165. Type, by elimination, 

 A. arvensis Linn. 



[473.] Alauda arvensis Linn. 



Skylark. 



Alauda arvensis Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 165. 



[B — C 55 bis, R 299, C ^^.-\ 



Geog. Dist. — Europe and Asia. Accidental in Greenland and 

 Bermuda. 



Genus OTOCORIS Bonaparte. 



Otocoris BoNAP. Nouvi Ann. Sci. Nat. Bologna, IL 1838, 407. 

 Type, Alauda alpestris Linn. 



474. Otocoris alpestris (Linn.). 



Horned Lark. 



Alauda alpestris Linn. S. N. ed. 10, 1758, 166. 

 Otocoris alpestris Bonap. Nouvi Ann. Sci. Nat. Bologna, IL 

 1838. 407. 



[B 302, C ^z, R 300, C 82.] 



Geog. Dist. — Northeastern North America, Greenland, and 

 northern parts of the Old World; in winter south in eastern 

 United States to the Carolinas, Illinois, etc. 



