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EREMOPHILA ALPESTRIS, HORNED LARK. 



ally.— WiLS., Am. Orn. i, 1808, 85, pi. 5, fig. 4.— Bp., Olos. Wils. 1825, No. 130 ; 



Sya. 1828, 102.— Ndtt., Man. i, 1832, 455.— AUD., O. B. ii, 1834, 570, pi. 200 ; 



Syn. 1839, 96 ; B. A. iii, 1841, 44, pi. 151.— Giraud, B. L. I. 1844, 95.— Pdtn., 



Pr. Ess. lust, i, 1856, 209.— Tlrnb., B. E. Pa. 1869, 4.— (?) Trippe, Pr. Ess. 



Inst, vi, 1871, 115. 

 Ei-cmopliilu aljoesli-is, BoiE, Isis, 1828, 322. — And of authors. — (?) Allex, Mem. Best. Soc. 



i, 1868, 496 (Iowa). — Mayn., Guide, 1870, 121 (Massachusetts, in July, perhaps 



breeding). — COUES, Key, 1872, 8J, tig. 32. 

 PUleremon alpestris, Bekhji, A og. Dent. 183C312.— Bp., List, IS.iS, 37. — Keys. & Blas., 



Wirb. Eur.' No. 84.— Haril., Svst. Verz. 1844, 80. 

 Otocortjs alpestris. Bp.— GiiAY., List of G. of B. 1841, 62.— Cab., Mus. Hein. i, 1851, 121. 

 Mauda cormdu, AVlLS., Am. Orn. i, 1808, i-'7 (in text).— Sw. & Rich., E. B. A. ii, 1831, 



245.— Maxim., Reise, i, 1839, 367. 

 Eremojihila cornuia, BoiE, Isis, 18-J8, 322.— Bd., B. N. A. 1858, 403.— Coop. & Suck., N. 



H. Wash. Ter. 1860, 19.5.— Wheat., Ohio Agric. Rep. 1860, No. 134.— CouES, 



Pr. Phila. Acad. 1861, 221.— Coues & Pre.nt., Smiths. Rep. 1861, 411.— Boarixm., 



Pr. Bost. Soo. is, 1862, 126.— Verk., Pr. Ess. Inst, iii, 1862, 150.— Allen, ibid. 



iv, 1864, 69.— McIlwr., ibid, v, 1806, 88.— CouES. ibid, v, 1868, 280.— Lawr., 



Ann. Lye. N. Y. \\n, 1866, 289.— Coues, Pr. Bost. Soc. xii, 1868, 114.— Lord, Pr. 



Arty. Inst. Wool, iv, 118.— Dale & Baisn., Tr. Chic. Acad, i, 1869, 281.— Coop., 



B. Cal. ), 1870, 251.— (?) Trippk, Pr. Bost. Soc. xv, 1872, 236. 

 Philercmos cornutics, Bp., List, 1838, 37. 

 Utocoryu cornuia, Cab., Mua. Hein. i, 1851, 122. 



b. leiicolcema. 

 (Pale race, breeding on dry interior plains of the West.) 



(?) Otocoris occidentalis, McCale, Pr. Phila. Acad, v, 1851, 218 (Santa F(5, N. M.).— Be, 



Stansbury's Eep. 1852, 318. 

 Oioconjs alpeslris, Newb., P. E. R. Eep. yi, 1857, 88. 



Jiremophila alpestris, Allex, Bull. JI. C. Z. iii. 1872, 176. ; 



ErcmophUa cornuta, Bd., P. R. E. Eep. x, 1859, Beckwith's Route, Birds, 13, pi. 32.— 



Hayd., Rep. 1862, 174— Stev., U. S. Geol. Surv. Ter. 1870, 464.— Mere., ibid. 



1872, 685.— Hold., Pr. Bost. Soc. xv, 1872, 202. 

 Eremopliila alpestris var. leucolcema, CouBS. 



c. chrysolama. 



(Smaller, bright race, from the southwestern plains and southward.) 



Jlaiida cornuia, Sw., Phil. Mag. i, 1827, 434 (Mexico). 



Eremopliila cornuia, CouES, Pr. Phila. Acad. 1866, 79 (Arizona). 



Alauda chrysolama, Wage., Isis. 1831, 350.— Bp., P. Z. S. 1837, HI ; Consp. Av. i, 1850, 246. 



Oioconjs chrysohona, Cab., M. H. i, 122.— Fiksch, Abhand. Nat. Ver. 1872, 341. 



Alauda minor, Giraud, B. Texas, 1841. — SCL., P. Z. S. 18.55, 66. 



Ercmophilu minor, SCL., Cat. A. B. 1H62, 126. 



Alauda rufa, AuD., B. Am. vii, 1843, 353, ]>\. 497. 



Otocoris rufa, Heerm., P. E. E. Eep. x, 1859, pt. vi, 45. 



oioconjs pmyrina, ScE., P. Z. S. 1855, 110, pi. 102 (Santa F6 de Bogota). 



Eremopliila percgrina, ScE., Cat. A. B. 1861, 127. 



Alauda peregrina, Giebel, Thes. Orn. i, 1872, 299. 



Eranophila curnuta var. chrysolcema, Bd., B. N. A. 1858, 403. 



Eremopliila a^.peniris var. vhrysolwma, CouES, Key, 1872, 89. 



Hob. — North America, breeding northerly ; generally dispersed through the United 

 States by migration. Var. leucolmma resident on the dry interior plains from Iowa and 

 Minnesota westward. Yar. chrysolosma from the Southwestern Territories and south- 

 ward to New Grenada. 



List of speeimeyis. 



Lieutenant Warren's Expedition. — 5314, Medicine Creek ; 5318, Yellowstone ; 5313, Fort 

 Pierre, Dak. ; 5317, Blackfoot country ; 9241-2, 9244-5, 9256, Black Hills ; 9239-40, 

 9243, near Bear Butte. ^. .^. , , ... _^^ 



Later Expeditions.— miW,igimmet^Ml^nBfSm^) 60897-934, vaiious localities ia 

 Wyoming ; 61753, Salt Lake, Utah. 



