ANNOTATED LIST OF SPECIES 8 1 



220. Tyrannus dominicensis (Gmel.). GRAY KINGBIRD. 

 Accidental from the south. One record : Z>7/, an immature 



bird, taken October [23], 1869, by Mr. Charles I. Goodale. 1 



221. Otocorys alpestris (Linn.). SHORE LARK. 

 Inland, a rare spring and autumn migrant, but along the coast, 



an abundant migrant, and not uncommon winter resident. 

 (September 27) October 17 to April 19 (May 27). 

 Berkshire: "Rare [spring ?] and autumn visitant." Bristol County: 

 *' Common winter visitant." Cambridge : Common transient visitant. 

 Cohasset : ^' Abundant.' 1 Dedharn : " Occasionally seen in early spring." 

 Essex County: "October to April or May. Abundant/' Ipswich: 

 " Abundant winter visitant." Martha's Vineyard : " Very common win- 

 ter visitant." Springfield : " Rare spring and autumn visitor." 



222. Otocorys alpestris praticola Hensh. PRAIRIE HORNED 

 LARK. 



A rare spring and autumn migrant and summer resident, occur- 

 ring also in winter. It has been found breeding at North Adams, 

 Williamstown and Pittsfield, 2 and we here record for the first time, 

 its breeding in Worcester County, at Hubbardston, where, we are 

 informed by Mr. Frederic Cunningham, Jr., in July, 1899, ^ e 

 found a nest with eggs, from which the young were safely reared. 

 Mr. William Brewster records seeing two birds at Concord in 

 July, 1869,3 which were probably of ^his race - The only winter 

 record, at present, is of a flock of twenty-five or more which win- 

 tered at Longmeadow in i896-'97. 4 Autumn and spring coast 

 records are: two males at Great Island, Hyannis, December 15, 

 i888. 5 On October 26, 1899, at Ipswich, the present writers, in 

 company with Dr. Walter Faxon, saw four (perhaps six) birds, 

 of which a male was taken. Although nearest praticola this 

 specimen seems almost intermediate between that race and are- 

 nicola, but this may be merely a case of individual variation. 6 



1 Allen; Amer. Nat., Vol. Ill, No 12, Feb., 1870, p. 645, p. 47 of separate. 



2 Faxon & Brewster; Auk, Vol. IX, No. 2, Apr., 1892, pp. 201, 202; ibid., 

 Vol. XI, No. 4, Oct., 1894, pp. 326, 327. 



3 Brewster; Minot's Land & Game Birds, 2d ed., 1895, P- 2 47- 



4 Morris; Auk, Vol. XVI, No. i, Jan., 1899, p. 85. 



5 Brewster; Auk, Vol. V, No. i, Jan., 1888, pp. in, 112. 



6 Howe; Auk, Vol. XVII, No. 2, Apr., 1900, p. 175. 



