184 Mr. H. Seebohm on the 



XIX. On the East- Asiatic Shore-Lark (Otocorys longi- 

 rostris). By HENRY SEEBOHM. 



Otocoris longirostriSj Gould, fide Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1855, p. 215 (India). 



Otocorys penidllata, Gould, apud Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 



1862, p. 318 (China). 



Otocorys alpestris, Linn, apud Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 



1863, p. 272 (China). 



Otocoris albigula, Brandt, apudDybowski, Journ. Orn. 1868, 

 p. 334 (Dauria). 



Otocorys sibirica, Eversmann, fide Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1871, p. 390 (China). 



Otocoris elwesii, Blanford, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1872, 

 p. 62 (Himalayas). 



Otocorys alpestris, Linn, apud Dresser, B. Eur. iv. p. 392 

 (1874) (China). 



Otocorys penidllata , Gould, apud Dresser, B. Eur. iv. p. 397 

 (1874) (India). 



Otocorys brandti, Dresser, B. Eur. iv. p. 401 (1874) (Kir- 

 ghis steppes). 



Otocorys parvexij Taczan. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1876, 

 p. 161 (Dauria). 



Otocoris nigrifronsj Prjevalski, Mongolia and Thibet, ii. 

 p. 103 (1876) (Mongolia). 



Otocorys sibirica, Swinh., David & Oust. Ois. de la Chine, 

 p. 316 (1876) (China). 



Habitat. A resident in Turkestan, the Himalayas, the 

 Altai Mountains, Dauria, and Mongolia, occasionally wan- 

 dering in winter into North China *, North India, and South- 

 east Russia. 



The evolution of order out of chaos has the same charms 

 for the ornithologist that the putting together of a puzzle 

 has for a schoolboy. As an example of chaos let us take the 



* A specimen in Canon Tristram's possession, said to be from Pekin, 

 and once in the Swinhoe collection, is a winter example (shot 12th 

 Dec. 1863) of O. alpestris. David and Oustalet give the range of the two 

 Bpecies very correctly. 



