126 BIRDS OF OHIO. 
the summer, particularly the breeding season, the regular 
diet. of weed seeds is supplemented with insect larvze. 
Since these birds may usually be rather closely approached 
during the winter when they associate together, and always 
head into the wind, they may be readily distinguished by 
the yellow line above the eye in the true Horned Lark, and 
by the white line, with no trace of yellow, in Prairie Horned 
Lark. Both have yellow or yellowish throats, Horned Lark 
the brighter and clearer. The form hoytt is as large as al- 
pestris, but is lighter than praticola, and with no yellow over 
the eye. 
173. (474k.) OvocoRIS ALPESTRIS HOYTI Bishop. —. 
Hoyt Horned Lark. 
Synonyms: Otocoris alpestris leucolema. 
Oberholser, A Review of the Larks of the Genus Otocoris, Pro- 
ceedings of the U. S. National Museum, XXIV, No. 1271, 812. 
The specimen above referred to, captured at Wooster, 
one in the Oberlin College collection, and at least three in 
the collection of the Ohio State University, are all of which 
I have any record. A critical examination of local collec- 
tions may reveal others. The recent elaboration of this 
subspecies makes it impossible to say what its status in our 
state is. From the small amount of evidence I would infer 
that it is a winter visitor with the Horned Lark, ranging 
into the state from the north-west. 
Family Corvinz. Crows, Jays, Magpies, etc. 
The food habits of the three representatives of this family 
which occur in Ohio are given under the species. 
174. (477.) Cyanocirta cristata (Linn.). 125 
Blue Jay. 
Synonyms: Cyanurus cristatus, Cyanura cristata, Corvus cris- 
tatus, Garrulus cristatus. 
Jay Bird. 
Kirtland, Ohio Geol. Surv., 1838, 162. 
Blue Jay is a familiar and common resident throughout 
the state except in the south-eastern portion. He is usually 
