. Bird-life; a guide to the study of our common birds . mmingbirds in is a coarser structure, composed of fine grasses, rootlets,and moss, but externally is thickly covered with it is saddled on a limb from twenty to forty feetabove the ground. The eggs, three or four in number,are white, with a wreath of dark brown spots around thelarger end. Larks. (Family Alaudid^e.) This family contains the true Larks, birds with longhind toe nails, and a generally brown or sandy coloredplumage, the Skylark being a typical species. There aresome one hundred species of Larks, but o
. Bird-life; a guide to the study of our common birds . mmingbirds in is a coarser structure, composed of fine grasses, rootlets,and moss, but externally is thickly covered with it is saddled on a limb from twenty to forty feetabove the ground. The eggs, three or four in number,are white, with a wreath of dark brown spots around thelarger end. Larks. (Family Alaudid^e.) This family contains the true Larks, birds with longhind toe nails, and a generally brown or sandy coloredplumage, the Skylark being a typical species. There aresome one hundred species of Larks, but of these only theHorned Lark and its geographical varieties are foundin this country. The variation in color shown by the Horned Larkthroughout its range is remarkable. From the Mexican Homed Lark tableland northward to Labrador and otocoHs aipestris. Alaska no less than eleven different Plate xxxiv. geographical races are known, each one reflecting the influence of the conditions under which it lives, and all intergrading one with another. Only two of. Plate XLVI. Page 143. WHITE-THKOATED SPARROW. Length, 6-75 inches. Adult, lores and bend of wing yellow; crownblack and white; back chestnut-brown, black, and buff; throat white;breast and sides grayish; belly white. Young, similar, but crown morelike back; yellow markings duller. HORNED LARK. 127 these races are found in the eastern United States, theHorned Lark and the Prairie Horned Lark. The formervisits us in the winter; the latter occurs at all seasons,but during the summer is found only in certain this season it inhabits the upper Mississippi Valley,whence it extends eastward through northwestern Penn-sylvania and central New York to western Massachu-setts. From October to April it may be found with theHorned Lark as far south as South Carolina. The twobirds differ in size and color. The Horned Larks wingaverages 4*27 inches in length, the Prairie Larks wingaverages but 4-08 inches in length; the f ormers forehe
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