PALLID HORNED LARK—Family Alaudidse. 
474a. Otocoris alpestris arcticola. 8% inches. 
This is the largest of the Larks. It has the throat white, 
with no trace of yellow; the horned tufts are black and 
curve upwards. Found in Alaska, south to Oiegon (no i 
lustrated). DESERT HORNED LARK. 
474c. Otocoris alpestris leucolcema. 8 inches. 
Found from British Columbia south, in winter to southern 
California, Texas and New Mexico. They are one of our 
handsome winter birds, with horn-like tufts of black on either 
side of the head; forehead, patch under the eye and band 
on the breast black; yellow throat, and white under parts; 
upper parts, a light pinkish shade of brown. Three or four 
eggs, white, marked with shades of brown, are placed m 
their nest of grasses and rootlets, on the ground, usual y 
concealed under a tuft of grass (.92 x.65). 
CALIFORNIA HORNED LARK. 
474e. Otocoris alpestris actia. 8 inches. 
Similar, but back deeper brown. Southern and Lower Cali¬ 
fornia. RUDDY HORNED LARK. 
474f. Otocoris alpestris rubea. 8 inches. 
The same as above, but still more rufous. Central California. 
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