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Genus OTOCORIS Bonaparte. 



Otocoris Bonaparte, Nuovi Ann. Sci. Nat. [Bologna], II, 1838, 407. 

 Type, by monotypy, Phileremos cornutus Bonapabte = Alauda cornuta 

 Wilson = Alaiuia adpestris Linnaeus. 



Otocoris alpSstris (Linn^us). 



Range. — North America, northern South America, northern Africa, 

 Europe, and Asia. 



a. Otocoris alpestris alpestris (Linnaeus). Homed Lark. [474.] 



Alavda alpestris Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 166. (Sea shore 

 of Carolina.) 



Range. — Eastern North America. Breeds in Arctic Zone of Canada from 

 Boothia Peninsula south to head of James Bay, Labrador, and Newfoundland; 

 winters south to the Ohio Valley and Georgia; casual in Louisiana and Ber- 

 muda; accidental in Greenland. 



b. Otocoris alpestris arcticola Oberholser. Pallid Horned Lark. [474a.] 



Otocoris alpestris arcticola Oberholsbr, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIV) 

 1902, 816. (Fort Reliance, Yukon, Canada.) 



Range. — Northwestern North America. Breeds in Alaska (except Pacific 

 coast strip) and in upper Yukon Valley; winters south to Oregon, Utah, and 

 Montana. 



V. Otocoris alpestris praticola Henshaw. Prairie Homed Lark. [4746.] 



Otocorys alpestris praticola Henshaw, Auk, I, July, 1884, 264. (Richland 

 County, Illinois.) 



Range. — Northeastern United States and Canada. Breeds chiefly in 

 Transition Zone from southern Manitoba and southern Quebec to eastern 

 Kansas, southern Missouri, Ohio, West Virginia, and Connecticut; winters 

 south to Texas, Tennessee, and Georgia, and casually to Arizona and Colorado. 



d. Otocoris alpestris leucoliema (Coues). Desert Homed Lark. [474c.] 



Eremophila alpestris var. leucolcema CouBS, Birds N. W., 1874, 38, 39. 

 (Fort Randall, South Dakota.) 



Range. — Great Plains and Great Basin. Breeds chiefly in Transition Zone 

 from southern Alberta and southern Saskatchewan to southern Nevada, north- 

 ern New Mexico, and western Kansas; winters south to southeastern California, 

 Texas, and Sonora. 



