318 NESTS AND EGGS 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 eggs of the Ruddy Horned Lark, 

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

 densely sprfiikled ■With a rusty-drab color. Ten specimens measure: .82x.54, .84z.53, 

 .83X.56, .83X.51, .82x.57, .80x.56, .84x.56, .80x.59, .83X.56, .80x.56. 



474!/. STKEAKED HORNED LAKE. Otocoris alpestris strigata Hensb. Geog. 

 Dist. — ^^C'oast 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. 



474ft. SCOBCHED HOENED LAB.E. Otocoris alpestris adusta Dwight. Geog. 

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

 Mexico. 



474A. Horned Lark. 



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

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

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



474i. DtrSKT HORNED LARK. Otocoris alpestris merrilli 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 th'e'eggs of this'"bird. 

 Near' Fort Klamath, Oregon, May 30, 1887, he found a nes't which oh June 4 contained' 

 two eggs. This was the first set of these eggs known,' knd renialried unique iii col- 

 lections until a second set was also found near Fort Klainath, by another colTeCtbr, 

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

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

 ground-color, while the other- two are of a light peS,-gre^n. All are thickly' speckled' 

 with light brown. They are ovate in shape, and measure: .83x.5S; .83x.60, .85X.58, 

 .85X.60. 



