OTOCORYS. 73 



Melanocorypha sibirica. White-winged Labk. 



Alauda sibirica, Gmelin, S. N. i. p. 799 (1788). 



Melanocorypha sibirica, Newton, i. p. 642; Dresser, iv. p. 373. 

 Melanocorypha leucoptera, Gould, iii. pi. 20. 

 Alauda sibirica, Harting, p. ill. 



Sibirica = of Siberia. 



Has once occurred near Brighton, November 1869. An 

 inhabitant of Russia and Siberia, occasionally straying into 

 Central Europe. 



Genus OTOCORYS, Bonaparte, Faun. Ital. Ucc. Introd. 

 fol. **** (1839). 



Otocorys, from ojs, gen. wros, an ear, and Kopws = a helmet. 



Otocorys alpestris. Shore-Lare. 



Alauda alpestris, Linnaus, S. N. i. p. 289 (1766) . 



Alauda alpestris, Naum. iv. p. 149 ; Macg. ii. p. 159 ; Hewit- 

 son, p. 178 * ; Yarr. ed. 2, i. p. 440 ; id. ed. 3, i. p. 465 ; 

 Harting, p. 25. 



Otocoris alpestris, Gray, p. 108 ; Gould, iii. pi. 18. 



Otocorys alpestris, Newton, i. p. 604 ; Dresser, iv. p. 387. 



Shore Lark, Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 402. 



Alpestris = alpine, from Alpes = the Alps. 



An irregular winter visitant to the coasts of Great Britain, 

 from Aberdeen in the north to Torbay in the south. It 

 inhabits the northern parts of Europe, Asia, and America. 



Order PICARI-ffl. 



Suborder GTP8ELI. 



Family CYPSELID^. 



Genus CTPSELUS, Eliger, Prodr. p. 229 (1811). 



= Kv^eXos, a bird mentioned by Aristotle, H. A. ir. 30, 1, from its 



haunting hollow places, Kvi^eXm. 



