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siLLOT, Encycl. 



(18,S92?) LtibeWed A. ruptstria. 



Aiitliiis pratensis. 



Alauda prntensis, LrNN. Syst. Nat. 1766, 287. — Anthw pratftisis, Bechst. 

 Deutsoh. Vugel, III, 1807, 732.— Keys. & Blas Wirb. Kuropa-s 

 1840, 172.— Zander, Cab. Jour. I, extra ed. het't, IS."):?, 60.— Paul- 

 sen, tid. Hiii.KuLL, F'aun. Uibiilands, 1846, 24. — Reinuakot, Ibis, 

 1861, 6. — Newton, Gould's Iculaud, 1863. 



Figures : Gould's Birda Europe, pi. 136. 



H'lb. Europe generally ; accidental iu Greenland ; couimon in Lapland 

 (Newton), 



This species in general form resembles the A. Ivdovicianus, the 

 fifth primary in both being abruptly and considerably shorter than 

 tli;' outer four ; the bill and legs quite similar. The average size 

 tippt'urs nmcii the same. The upper parts are, however (especially 

 the head and back), more distinctly streaked with dusky ; the edge 

 and inside of wing greenish-yellow, not white, and the upper plumage 

 and outer edges of the quills decidedly olive-green. The shafts of 

 the middle tail feathers above are whitish, not dark-brown ; the under 

 parts greenish-white, conspicuously streaked with dark-brown. The 

 bill is dusky, the base and edges paler ; the legs dusky flesh color, 

 not dark-brown. 



I introduce this species here as having been found in Greenland, 

 although lleinhardt mentions only one instan :e of its occurrence. 

 The specimens examined are from Denmark. 



Neocorjfn, Sclatkr, P. Z. S. 1H57, 5 

 Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, 233. 



b. Neocorys, Sclater. 



(Type Alauda tpragnei, AcD.)— 



Antliiis spraffuei. 



Atiitula spraguet, Aud. B. A. VII, 1843, 33.^, pi. 486. — Agrodomn xprngnei, 

 Baird, Stansbury's Uep. 1S52, 329. — Neocorys spraguti, Sclatkr, 

 P. Z. S. 1857, 5.— Bauid, Birds N. Am. 1858, 234.— Blak^stos, 

 Ibis, 1862, 4 (Sa'katobewan). 



Hdb, Plains of Yellowstone and Upper Missouri to Saskatchewan. 



