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OTOCORYS ALPESTRIS. 



(SHORE-LARK.) 



Lark, Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carolina, i. p. 32, pi. 32 (1731). 



Alauda virginiana, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 367 (1760, ex Catesby). 



Alauda alpestris, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 289 (1766, ex Catesby). 



Ceinture de PrStre ou Alouette de Siberie, Montb. Hist. Nat. Ois. v. p. 61, " Siberia" (1778). 



Alauda flava, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 800, "Siberia" (1788, ex Montb.). 



Alauda cornuta, Wils. Am. Orn. i. p. 85, pi. v. fig. 4, " N. America" (1808). 



Alauda nivalis, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso-As. i. p. 519, "Russia" (1811). 



Eremophila alpestris (L.), Boie, Isis, 1828, p. 322, " Europe." 



Eremophila cornuta (Wils.), Boie, torn. cit. p. 322, "America." 



Alauda glacialis, " alpestris affinis," Licht. Preis-Verz. Saugeth. Vog. &c. no. 59, " Mexico " 



(1830, desc. nulla). 

 Phileremos alpestris (L.), C. L. Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 313, " Europe " (1831). 

 Alauda chrysolcema, Wagl. Isis, 1831, p. 350, "Mexico." 



Otocoris alpestris (L.), Bp. Fauna Italica, i. Uccelli, Introd. "Italy" (1832-1841). 

 Phileremos cornutus, Bp. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1837, p. Ill, " Mexico." 

 Philammus, G. R. Gray (A. alpestris, L.), Gen. of Birds, p. 47 (1840). 

 Alauda minor, Giraud, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. York, 1841, no. 16, "Texas" (nee Veill.). 

 Alauda rufa, Audub. B. Am. vii. p. 353, pi. 497 (1843). 

 Otocoris alpestris (L.), Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 246, "Europe, Asia" (1850). 

 Otocoris cornuta (Wils.), Bp. torn. cit. p. 246, "America" (1850). 

 Otocoris chrysolaema (Wagl.), Bp. torn. cit. p. 246, "Mexico" (1850). 

 Otocoris occidentalis, MacCall, Pr. Ac. N. Sc. v. June 1851, p. 218, "Santa Fe." 

 Otocoryx alpestris (L.), Licht. Nomencl. p. 38, " Siber., Ural, Crim." (1854). 

 Otocoryx cornuta (Wils.), Licht. Nomencl. p. 39, "Mexico, N. Am." (1854). 

 Otocorys alpestris (L.), Bp. Compt. Rend, xxxviii. p. 64 (1854). 

 Otocorys cornuta (Wils.), Bp. torn. cit. p. 64 (1854). 

 Otocorys chrysolwma (Wagl.), Bp. torn. cit. p. 65 (1854). 

 Phileremos rufescens, C. L. Brehm, Vogelf. p. 122 (1855). 

 Phileremos striatus, C. L. Brehm, torn. cit. p. 122 (1855). 



Shore-Lark, Horned Lark, English ; Berglerche, German ; Fjeldlcerke, Norwegian ; Berg- 

 larka, Swedish; Tunturileivo, Finnish; Javronok-snejny, Russian. 



Figures notabiles. 



DAubenton, PL Enl. 630. fig. 2 ; Werner, Atlas, Granivores, pi. 4 ; Kjaerb. Orn. Dan. 

 taf. xviii. ; Frisch, Vog. Deutschl. taf. 16; Fritsch, Vog. Eur. taf. 16. fig. 13; Naumann, 



