266 Henshaw oti the North American Shore Larks. [July 



Measurements: wing, 4.25; tail, 3.00; bill, .88; tarsus, .48 (largest of 



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Measurements : wing, 4.00; tail, 2.90; bill, .815; tarsus, .47 (smallest of 

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Otocorys alpestris giraudi, var. nov. Texan Horned Lark. 



SuBSP. Char. — Smaller than O. alpestris praticola (the wing not 

 more than 3.90 inches in the (J), and deeper colored; the forehead and 

 superciliary stripe yellow, or tinged with yellow, and the breast (imme- 

 diately beneath the black jugular collai-) often, if not usually yellow. 

 Female much paler and grayer, with more distinctly yellowish throat 

 than in firaticola. 



Adult $ in Spring, No. 73706, Corpus Christi, Texas ; G. B. Sennett) : 

 Posterior half of crown, occiput, nape, sides of neck and breast, lesser and 

 middle wing-coverts, and upper tail-coverts, grayish vinaceous ; back, 

 scapulars, and rump dull brownish gray, the back very obsoletely, the 

 upper part of the rump distinctly, streaked with darker. A narrow frontal 

 band (about. 12 of an inch wide) continued back in a distinct superciliary 

 stripe; chin, throat, and malar region, primrose-yellow; a broad patch on 

 fore part of the crown (about .35 of an inch wide), ear-tufts, lores, 

 oblique patch beneath the eyes, and jugular patch, black; middle portion 

 of auriculars pale primrose-yellow, the terminal portion grayish brown. 

 Breast, except laterally, pale primrose-yellow, minutely and s&ry indistinct- 

 ly flecked with pale grayish brown ; rest of lower parts white. Wing, 3.90, 

 tail, 2.55, culmen, .42, tarsus, .80. 



Adult $ i7i Spring (No. 73707, Brownsville, Texas, G. B. Sennett) : 

 Above light vinaceous-gray, everywhere distinctly streaked with dusky ; 

 forehead (indistinctly) dull whitish, this gradually passing into a rather 

 well-defined buify white superciliary stripe; malar region, chin and throat, 

 primrose-yellow; lores and suborbital region dusky, mottled with pale 

 buflfy grayish ; auriculars pale pinkish buff", darker terminally. Jugulum 

 with a distinct transverse patch of brownish black, the feathers narrowly 

 tipped with dull whitish. Lower parts white, the breast somewhat tinged 

 with pale vinaceous (especially laterally) and marked with deltoid spots 

 of pale vinaceous-gray. Wing, 3.55, tail, 2.30, culmen, .40, tarsus, .80. 



Measurements: wing, 3.90; tail, 2.60; bill, .72; tarsus, .38 (largest of 

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Measurements: wing, 3.57; tail, 2.50; bill, .82; tarsus, .40 (smallest of 

 8<J). 



In a series of 17 specimens all from Texas, the characters of this form as 

 giyen above are remarkably uniform. Of eleven adult males, only four 

 are without yellow on the breast; in the same number it is very distinct, 

 being almost as deep as the color of the throat, while in three it is paler, 

 though distinctly indicated. In the coloration of the upper parts there is 

 no variation worthy of note, except in the width of the yellow and black 

 bands on the top of the head, which vary to a greater or less degree in 



