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CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Suborder OSCINES. Song Birds. 



Family ALAUDID-ffl. Larks. 



Genus ALAUDA Linn^us. 



Alauda Linn. S. N. ed. lo, I. 1758, 165. Type, by elimination, A. 

 arvensis LiNN. 



[473.] Alauda arvensis Linn. 



Skylark. 



Alauda arvensis Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 165. 



[B — , C 55 bis, R 299, C 88.] 



Hab. Europe and Asia. Accidental in Greenland and the Ber- 

 mudas. 



Genus OTOCORIS Bonaparte. 



Otocoris BoNAP. Faun. Ital. Ucc. Introd. 1839. Type, Alauda aipes- 

 tris Linn. 



474. Otocoris alpestris (Linn.). 



Hornea Lark. 



Alauda alpestris Linn. S. N. ed. 10, 1758, 166. 



Otocoris alpestris Bonap. Fauna Ital. Uccelli, Introd. 1839 (^ot P^g^d). 



[B 302, C 53, R 300, C 82.] 



Hab. Northeastern North America, Greenland, and northern parts 

 of the Old World ; in winter south in the Eastern United States to the 

 Carolinas, Illinois, etc. 



474 a. Otocoris alpestris leucolaBma (Coues). • 



Pallid Horned Lark. 



Eremophila alpestris b. leucolcema Coues, B. N. W. 1875, 38 (part). 

 Otocoris alpestris leucolcema Stejn. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. V. June 5, 

 1882, 34. 



