AVES. 133 



PASSERES. OSCINES. 



ALAUDIDAE. 



N. H. — • Uncommon migrant, and in White Mt. valleys ( ? and 

 summit of Mt. Washington, 1905) a rare summer resident. Feb. 

 28- Aug. Eggs and young. May 21, June 22. 



Vt. — Uncommon migrant and rare summer resident (at Burling- 

 ton, Cornwall, Mt. Mansfield, Rygate, St. Albans, Stowe). Feb.- 

 fall. Eggs, Mar.-April 19. 



Mass. — Rare migrant and summer resident, occasional winter 

 resident (Longmeadow) . Feb. 19-Mar. 22; summer; Oct. 26- 

 Dec. 15 (winter). Eggs, July 10. 



R. I. — Rare migrant: Pawtuxet, Nov. 25, 1889. 



Conn. — Uncommon migrant and summer resident (Danbury, 

 1908, Litchfield, 1905, Washington, 1906); "occasional in winter." 

 Eggs, Mar. 25. 



251. Otocoris alpestris hoyti Bishop. 



Hoyt's homed lark. 



Bishop, Auk, 1896, vol. 13, p. 130. "Cando, Towner County, 

 North Dakota." 



Open country and coasts; nests on the ground. 



Conn. — Rare migrant and ( ?) winter resident : Guilford, Mar . 

 7, 1903; West Haven, Jan. 24, 1905 (Bishop). 



CORVIDAE. 



252. Cyanocitta cristata (Linne) Strickland. 

 Blue jay; Corn-bird. 



Corvus cristatus Linne, Syst. nat., ed. 10, 1758, vol. 1, p. 106. 

 "in America septentrional:." 



Garrulus cristatus Linne. Audubon, Birds of Amer., 1842, 

 vol. 4, p. 110, pi. 231. Egg, Bendire, 1895, vol. 2, pi. 5, figs. 5, 6. 



Woodlands; nests in trees. 



Me. — Common migrant and resident. Eggs, May- June 4. 



