. Key to North American birds; containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. Fig. 32. Horned Lark. MOTACILLID.*:, WAGTAILS. — GEN. 26. 89 ,'5 26. Genus EREMOPHILA Boie. Horned Lark. Shore Lark. In spring: — Pinkish-brown, brightest on rump, nape and wing coverts, thickly streaked with dusky; below, white, breast and sides shaded with the color of the back, chin, throat and super- ciliary line pale yellow, or yellowish-w
. Key to North American birds; containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. Fig. 32. Horned Lark. MOTACILLID.*:, WAGTAILS. — GEN. 26. 89 ,'5 26. Genus EREMOPHILA Boie. Horned Lark. Shore Lark. In spring: — Pinkish-brown, brightest on rump, nape and wing coverts, thickly streaked with dusky; below, white, breast and sides shaded with the color of the back, chin, throat and super- ciliary line pale yellow, or yellowish-white; a pectoral crescent and curved stripe under the eye, black; tail black, outer feathers white-edged and middle ones like the back. Tints extremely variable; young birds, and fall and winter specimens of the Atlantic States are plain grayish-brown, streaked with darker, below soiled whitish, and with the black markings of the head and breast obscure or wanting, though the yellow is usually bright — even more so than in spring. Length 7-7J, wing 4J, tail 2|-3, tarsus f, hind claw ^-|, very slender and sharp. North America; in the east retires in spring bej'ond the United States, but in the west breeds on the plains much further south. Wils., i, 85, pi. 5, f. 4; Nutt., i, 455; Aud., iii, 44, pi. 151; Be, 403 alpestris. Var. chkysoljEma. A rather smaller, brighter colored race, occurring in south- western United States and Mexico. It looks quite different at first sight, but is not distinguishable as a species by any definite or constant characters. Alauda rufa Aud., vii, 353, pi. 497 ; Bd., 403. The foregoing, with E. iKregrina, a South American species or variety, are the only American Alaudidce. Family MOTACILLID^. Wagtails. Bill shorter than the head, verj^ slender, straight, acute, notched at tip. Rictus not evidently bristled. Primaries nine, of which the 1st is about as long as the 2d, and the first three, four or five, form the point; inner secondaries enlarged,
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