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Adult TOa^e.— Length (skins), 140-152 (146.5); wing, 77-84 (81.5); 

 tail, 53-69 (57); exposed culmen, 11.5-13 (12.2); tarsus, 22-24 (22.9); 

 middle toe, 16-16.5 (16.1); hind claw, -11.5-14 (12.6).« 



Adult female.— L&ngth. (skins), 148-152 (150); wing, 77-80 (78.5); 

 tail, 52; exposed culmen, 12.5-13 (12.7); tarsus, 22-23 (22.5): middle 

 toe, 17-18 (17.5); hind claw, 12-15.5 (13.7).* 



Interior plains of North America; breeding from eastern Montana 

 (Belt Mountains, Yellowstone Rivej', etc.) and northern North Dakota 

 (Red Kiver Valley, etc.) to Assiniboia and the Saskatchewan district 

 of Manitoba; in winter southward to Texas (Tom Green, Concho, 

 Kendall, and Harris counties, etc.) and southern Louisiana, and 

 through eastern Mexico to Vera Cruz and Puebla; occasional in 

 winter on coast of South Carolina (Mount Pleasant, near Charleston, 

 November). 



Alauda spragueii Audubon, Birds, Am., oct. ed., vii, 1843, 335, pi. 486 (Fort 

 Union, North Dakota; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



[Otocoris] sprangeri (typographical error) Bonapaete, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 246. 



Agrodroma spragiid Baikd, in Stansbury's Rep. Gt. Salt Lake, 1852, 329. — Bona- 

 paete, Compt. Rend, xxxviii, 1856, 65. 



Neocorys spraguei Baied, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 234; Cat. N. Am. 

 Birds, 1859, no. 166.— Coopee, Orn. CaL, 1870, 80 (Upper Missouri and Sas- 

 katchewan).— Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 56; Birds N. W., 1874, 42.— 

 Baied, Bbewee, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 175, pi. 10, 

 fig. 5.— Allen, Proc. Bost. See. N. H., xvii, 1874, 50 (Heart R., Fort Rice, 

 Yellowstone R., etc.; habits; song; descr. nest and eggs). — Bebwee, Ibis, 

 1878, 116 (Fort Brown, Texas).— Ridgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, 

 no. 73.— Neheling, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 8 (Harris Co., s. e. 

 Texas, winter).— Beown (N. C), Bull.. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 35 

 (Boerne, Kendall Co., w. Texas, Mar. 16 to Apr. 4) — ^Williams, Bull. Nutt. 

 Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 62 (Belt Mts., Montana, breeding). 



\_Neocorys} spraguei CouES, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 91. 



Neocorys spraguii Sclatbe, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 5. — Blakiston, Ibis, 

 1862, 4 (Forks of the Saskatchewan, May); 1863, 61 (Fort Carleton, Sas- 

 katchewan, lat. 53°; abundant on prairies). — Codes, Check List, 2d ed., 

 1882, no. 90.— Shaepb, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 620 (Papillion, 

 Nebraska, Sept.; Souris R., North Dakota). 



N[eocorys'] spraguii Codes, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 286. 



Artthus {Neocorys) spraguii Codes, Birds Col. Val., 1878, 193, footnote. — Sennbtt, 

 Bull. U. S. Geog. and Geol. Surv. Terr., iv, no. 1, 1878, 10 (Galveston, 

 V Texas, Mar.). 



Anthus spraguei Baied, Review Am. Birds, Oct., 1864, 155.— Codes, Am. Nat., 

 vii, 1873, 697.— Seton, Auk, ii, 1885, 269 (w. Manitoba; habits; song).— 

 Williams, Auk, v, 1888, 15 (near Grand Falls, Montana; song).— Salvin and 

 GoDMAN, Ibis, 1889, 236 (Vera Cruz, Mexico; Puebla).— Thompson, Auk, x, 

 1893, 50 (Big Plain, Manitoba) . 



lArdhus'] spraguei Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 250, no. 3634. 



Anthus spragueii American Oenithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 700. — 

 Feeeai^i-Peeez, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 136 (Puebla, Mexico, 

 Dec). — Seton, Auk, iii, 1886, 327 (Assiniboine distr., w. Manitoba, sum- 



« Four specimens. * Two specimens. 



