3i8 NESTS AND EG&S OF 



collection contains a series of this Lark's eggs, collected in San Diego county, Cali- 

 fornia, and in comparing them, with a large number of those from the East, South 

 and Middle States, there' is really no perceptible difference in their general shape, 

 color and markings. My cabinet contains thirty eggg of the Ruddy Horned Lark, 

 taken In various parts of California. Their color is a pale olive-buff, finely and 

 densely sprinkled with a rusty-drab color. Ten specimens measure: .82x.54, .84x.53, 

 .83X.56, .83X.51, .82x.57, .80x.56, .S4x.56, .80x.59, .83X.56, .80X.56. 



474j/. STBEAKED HORNED LABK. Otocoris alpestris strigata Hensh. Geog. 

 Dist.— Coast region of Oregon, Washington and British Columbia; islands off coast 

 of Southern California. 



This conspicuously streaked and striped Shore Lark is larger than the California 

 bird, 0. a. rubea, and is found breeding from Oregon northward. Its nesting and 

 eggs are exactly the same. 



474A. SCORCHED HORNED LARK. Otocoris alpestris adusta Dwight. Geog. 

 Dist. — Southern Arizona and New Mexico; "Western Texas and southward into 

 Mexico. 



4*Ti/t, Horned Lark. 



During the breeding season this subspecies is confined to the southern borders 

 of the United States, from New Mexico and Western Texas into Northern Mexico. 

 In its habits, nests and eggs it differs little if any from members of this family. 



474i. DUSKY HORNED LARK. Otocoris alpestris merrilU Dwight. Geog. 

 Dist. — Eastern Oregon, Washington and British Columbia, between the Cascade and 

 Rocky Mountains; southward In winter into Nevada and California. To Dr. James 

 C. Merrill, U. S. A., belongs the credit of having first collected the eggs of this bird. 

 Near Fort Klamath, Oregon, May 30, 1887, he found a nest which on June 4 contained 

 twcr eggs. This was the first set of these eggs known, and remained unique in col- 

 lections until a second set was also found near Fort Klamath, by another collector, 

 on June 1, 1888. The nest was sunken in the ground, and was made of grass, very 

 loosely constructed. It contained four eggs. Two of them have an olive-buff 

 ground-color, while the other two are of a light pea-green. All are thickly speckled 

 with light brown. They are ovate in shape, and measure:. .83x.58, .83x.60, .85x.58, 

 .85X.60. 



