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AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE OF MICHIGAN. 



SUBORDER OSCINES. SONG BIRDS. 



FAMILY ALAUDIDJE. LARKS. 

 Insect feeders; sing on the wing. 



GENUS OTOCORIS BONAP. 



Horned Lark, much reduced. 



198-474-(82). Otocoris alpestris (Linn.). *HORNED LARK; SHORE LARK. 



Rather rare; irregular fall and spring visitor; "late fall in Kent County" (S. E, 

 White); not very rare in winter; breeds in Greenland and Labrador; often seen in barn- 



Horned Lark, natural size. 



yards, feeding on seeds, etc.; this bird is often confused with the following subspecies, 

 which is more common in our state. From what Dr. J. B. Steere writes me, I judge 

 that this is the more common at Ann Arbor. 



199-4 74b-(OOO). Otocoris alpestris praticola Hensh. * PRAIRIE HORNED LARK. 

 Summer resident; Jonathan Dwight, Jr., found them at Ann Arbor and Cadillac 

 where they were breeding (Auk, Vol. VIII. p. 138); "very common at Iron Mountain " 

 (E, E. Brewster); breeds; nests on the ground; in April or earlier; "breeds abundantly 

 in Kent county " (S. E. White); J. B. Purdy, of Plymouth, has found eggs in nest in 

 February; nest often surrounded by snow; may be double or triple brooded; eggs four 

 or five, gray specked with brown; food insects and seeds. Mr. L. W. Watkins took one 

 on eggs March 20, 1889, the nest was surrounded by snow. This subspecies and the 



