190S.] 



BIEDS. 



399 



May 17. 18 (first females). 20. and 30, was secured from the large 

 flocks which paused here on their northward migration. 



Horned larks, undoubtedly of this form, have been observed on 

 two occasions on the Arctic islands, but the bird is rare there. J. C. 

 Eoss recorded three seen near Felix Harbor, Boothia ; « and Walker 

 observed one at Port Kennedy in July. 1859, dtiring M'Clintock's 

 expedition.^ Eichardson observed the species on its breeding grounds 

 on the Arctic coast near Liverpool Bay. August 181:8. when young 

 birds were seen running about. ^ Under the name Eremoplv'da cornuta^ 

 Eoss recorded a specimen from Fort Simpson.^ MacFarlane fottnd 

 nests on the Barren Grotinds and on the coast of Franklin Bay, and 

 received eggs from the Eskimo, prestimably from the lower Anderson 

 or from Liverpool Bay.^ Bendire gives the earliest breeding record 

 for the lower Anderson as June 11. btit nearly all the nests taken by 

 MacFarlane were found during the first week in July.^ Specimens 

 from Big Island. Franklin Bay. and the Arctic coast east of Fort 

 Anderson are referred by Oberholser to this form ; ^ and the bird 

 catalogue of the Xational Museum shows that horned larks, also 

 undoubtedly referable to the present form, were received from Fort 

 Eesoliition, Fort Eae. and Fort Good Hope. Under the name Otocoris 

 a. lencoloeriuu Eussell records five specimens taken at Fort Chipewyan 

 May 20 to 25. 1893.^' Some of these have been examined by Eidgway 

 and j^rove referable to hoyfl. Macotin records eggs, undoubtedly be- 

 longing to this form, taken by Bishop Lofthouse on Artillery Lake. 

 June 9. 1900.' Hubert Darrell informs me that he observed horned 

 larks near the base of Kent Peninsula on June 1. 1902. 



Otocoris alpestris arcticola Oberholser. Alaskan Horned Lark. 



In the spring of 1901: the first horned larks observed at Fort Simp- 

 son were males taken on April 28 and 29. which prove referable to 

 this form. They were seen only in small numbers at first. Other 

 males were taken on ^lay 9 and 11:. Among the large series of 

 horned larks taken later in May are two females (May 18 and 30), 

 which are also best referred to arcticola, though somewhat inclining 

 toward hoyti. 



"Appendix to Ross's Second Voyage, p. xxvi, 1835. 

 & Proc. Rot. Soc. Dublin, III, p. 62, 1S60. 



Arctic Searching Expedition, I, p. 251, 1851. 

 ^ Can. Nat. and Geol., YI, p. 442, 1861. 

 ^Proc. r. S. Nat. Mus., XIV, p. 438, 1891. 

 ^Life Hist. X. A. Birds [II]. p. 333. 1896. 

 ^Proc. r. S. Xat. Mns., XXIV. pp. 812, 813, .Inne, 1902. 



Expl. in Far Xortli, p. 264, 1898. 

 * Cat. Canadian Birds, Part II, p. 364, 1903. 



