OTOCORYS. 73 



Melanocorypha sibirica. WHITE-WINGED LAKE. 



Alauda sibirica, Gmelin, S. N. i. p. 799 (1788). 



Melanocorypha sibirica, Newton, i. p. 642; Dresser, iv. p. 373. 

 Melanocorypha leucoptera, Gould, iii. pi. 20. 

 Alauda sibirica, Harting, p. 111. 



Sibirica = of Siberia. 



Has once occurred near Brighton, November 1869. An 

 inhabitant of Russia and Siberia, occasionally straying into 

 Central Europe. 



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Genus OTOCORYS, Bonaparte, JVun. Ital. Ucc. Introd. 

 fol.**** (1839). 



Otdcorys, from ovs, gen. wros, an ear, and icopvs = a helmet. 



Cf (/& 

 Otocorys alpestris. SHORE-LAKE. 



Alauda alpestris, Linntzus, S. N. i. p. 289 (1766). 



Alauda alpestris, Naum. iv. p. 149 ; Macg. ii. p. 159 ; Hewit- 

 son, p. 178 * ; Yarr. ed. 2, i. p. 440 ; id. ed. 3, i. p. 465 ; 

 Harting, p. 25. 



Otocoris alpestris, Gray, p. 108 ; Gould, iii. pi. 18. 



Otocorys alpestris, Newton, i. p. 604 ; Dresser, iv. p. 387. 



Shore Lark, Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 402. 



Alpestris = alpine, from Alpes = the Alps. 



An irregular winter visitant to the coasts of Great Britain, 

 from Aberdeen in the north to Torbay in the south. It 

 inhabits the northern parts of Europe, Asia, and America. 



Order 



Suborder CYPSELI. 



Family CYPSELID^E. 



Genus CYPSELUS, Illiger, Prodr. p. 229 (1811). 



Cypselus = ictyeXo?, a bird mentioned by Aristotle, H. A. is. 30, 1, from its 



haunting hollow places, 



