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Family XXXIX. ALAUDID^. Larks, 

 CLXVI. ALAUDA Linn^us. 1758. 



473. Skylark. 



Alauda arvensis hiysN. 1758. 

 Accidental in Greenland and Bermuda. (A. 0. U. Check-List?) 

 CLXVII. OTOCORIS Bonaparte. 1838. 



474. Horned Lark. 



Otocoris alpestris (Linn.) Bonap. 1838. 



One shot at Godthaab in October, 1835, but known before to 

 occur on the other side of Davis Strait at Cape Wilson, loth July, 

 1822. {Arci. Man.) Common summer resident in Labrador. 

 Breeds at the mouth of the Koksoak River and at Rigolet. 

 (Packard.) Common and breeding on the rocky islands of James 

 Bay from Moose Factory to Richmond Gulf : not observed in the 

 interior of Labrador between Richmond Gulf and Ungava Bay in 

 1896. (Spreaddorougk.) Greenland, Newfoundland, Labrador and 

 Hudson Bay, southward in winter into the United States. Our 

 bird breeds far north of the United States, about the shores of 

 Hudson Bay, Labrador and Newfoundland. Breeding birds have 

 been examined from Fort Chimo and Davis Inlet, Labrador ; 

 Penguin Island, Cape St. Mary, and Canada Bay, Newfoundland ; 

 Moose Fort, James Bay ; non-breeding from Toronto and Rat 

 Portage, Lake of the Woods, Ontario ; also from Manitoba. 

 {Dwight.) Common during the sprrng and autumn migrations, 

 in Nova Scotia. {Dowtis.) A winter resident at St. John, New 

 Brunswick. {Chamderlain.) Taken at Beauport ; a rriigrant in 

 Quebec. {Dionne.) A transient visitant at Montreal ; scarce. I 

 shot five specimens of this species out of about a dozen found 

 feeding on the river ice-roads in front of the city, April 8th, 

 1887, but since that time have not met with them, in the spring of 

 the year ; in the autumn only from Oct. 20 — 26th. {Wintle.) The 

 horned larks of the Ottawa district were for the first time satis- 

 factorily determined and distinguished in the spring of 1890. 

 This species arrived April 19th and remained together in flocks 

 till May 25th, when it departed ; it was again present in the fall 

 from September 26th to October 28th. {Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) 

 Formerly common at Toronto ; Mr. Lamb of Toronto has a 

 specimen taken at Gravenhurst in Muskoka district. (/. H. Flem- 



