Annotated List of Species 8 1 



220. Tyrannus dominicensis (Gmel.)- Gray Kingbird. 

 Accidental from the south. One record : Lynn, an immature 



bird, taken October [23], 1869, by Mr. Charles I. Goodale.^ 



221. Otocorys alpestris (Linn.). Shore Lark. 

 Inland, a rare spring and autumn migrant, but along the coast, 



an abundant migrant, and' not uncommon winter resident. 



(September 27) October 17 to April 19 (May 27). 



Berkshire : " Rare [spring ?] and autumn visitant." Bristol County : 

 " Common winter visitant." Cambridge : Common transient visitant. 

 Cohasset; " Abundant." Dedham : " Occasionally seen in early spring." 

 Essex County: "October to April or May. Abundant." Ipswich: 

 " Abundant winter visitant." MartHa's Vineyard : " Verv common win- 

 ter visitant." Springfield : " Rare spring and autumn visitor." 



222. Otocorys alpestris praticola Hensh. Prairie Horned 

 Lark. 



A rare spring and autumn migrant and summer resident, occur- 

 ring also in winter. It has been found breeding at North Adams, 

 Williamstown and Pittsfield,'' and we here record for the first time, 

 its breeding in Worcester County, at Hubbardston, where, we are 

 informed by Mr. Frederic Cunningham, Jr., in July, 1899, he 

 found a nest with eggs, from which the young were safely reared. 

 Mr. William Brewster records seeing two birds at Concord in 

 July, 1869,3 which were probably of this race. The only winter 

 record, at present, is of a flock of twenty-five or more which win- 

 tered at Longmeadow in i896-'97.* Autumn and spring coast 

 records are: two males at Great Island, Hyannis, December 15, 

 1888.° On October 26, 1899, at Ipswich, the present writers, in 

 company with Dr. Walter Faxon, saw four (perhaps six) birds, 

 of which a male was taken. Although nearest praticola this 

 specimen seems almost intermediate between that race and are- 

 nicola, but this may be merely a case of individual variation." 



i Allen; Amer. Nat., Vol. Ill, No 12, Feb., 1S70, p. 645, p. 47 of separate. 

 ' Faxon & Brewster; Auk, Vol. IX, No. 2, Apr., 1892, pp. 201, 202; ibid.. 

 Vol. XI, No. 4, Oct., 1894, pp. 326, 327. 



'Brewster; Minot's Land & Game Birds, 2d ed., 1895, P- ^M- 

 * Morris; Auk, Vol. XVI, No. i, Jan., 1899, p. 85. 

 'Brewster; Auk, Vol. V, No. 1, Jan., 1888, pp. in, 112. 

 ^Howe; Auk, Vol.XVII, No. 2, Apr., 1900, p. 175. 



