ANTHUS. 



155 



(18,592 ?) Labelled A. rupestris. 



Antlius pratensis. 



Alauda pratensis, Linn. Syst. Nat. 1766, 287. — Anthus pratensis, Bechst. 

 Deutsch. Vogel, III, 1807, 732.— Keys. & Blas. Wirb. Europas, 

 1840, 172.— Zander, Cab. Jour. I, extra ed. heft, 1853, 60.— Paul- 

 sen, ed. HoLBOLL, Faun. Gronlands, 1846, 24. — Reinhakdt, Ibis, 

 1861, 6. — Newton, Gould's Iceland, 1863. 



Figures : Godld's Birds Europe, pi. 136. 



Hab. Europe generally ; accidental in Greenland ; common in Lapland 



(Newton'). 



This species in general form resembles the A. ludovicianus, the 

 fifth primary in both being abruptly and considerably shorter than 

 the outer four ; the bill and legs quite similar. The average size 

 appears much the same. The upper parts are, however (especially 

 the head and back), more distinctly streaked with dusky ; the edge 

 and inside of wing greenish-yellow, not white, and the upper plumage 

 and outer edges of the quills decidedly olive-green. The shafts of 

 the middle tail feathers above are whitish, not dark-brown ; the under 

 parts greenish-white, conspicuously streaked with dark-brown. The 

 bill is dusky, the base and edges paler ; the legs dusky flesh color, 

 not dark-brown. 



I introduce this species here as having been found in Greenland, 

 although Reinhardt mentions only one instance of its occurrence. 

 The specimens examined are from Denmark. 



Neocorys, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1857, 6 

 Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, 233. 



b. Neocorys, Sclater. 



(Type Alauda spraguei, AuD.) — 



Antlius spraguei. 



Alauda spraguei, Ann. B. A. VII, 1843, 335, pi. 486. — Agrodoma spraguei, 

 Baird, Stansbury's Rep. 1852, 329. — Neocorys spraguei, Sclater, 

 P. Z. S. 1857, 5.— Baikd, Birds N. Am. 1858, 234.— Blakiston, 

 Ibis, 1862, 4 (Saskatchewan). 



Hah. Plains of Yellowstone and Upper Missouri to Saskatchewan. 



