. Bird-life : a guide to the study of our common birds . ingbirds m 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 nimiber,are white, with a wreath of dark brown spots around thelarger end. Larks. (Family Alaudid^.) This family contains the true Larks, birds with longhind toe nails, and a generally brown or sandy coloredplumage, the Skylark being a typical 6j)ecies. There aresome one hundred species of Larks, but of
. Bird-life : a guide to the study of our common birds . ingbirds m 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 nimiber,are white, with a wreath of dark brown spots around thelarger end. Larks. (Family Alaudid^.) This family contains the true Larks, birds with longhind toe nails, and a generally brown or sandy coloredplumage, the Skylark being a typical 6j)ecies. There aresome one hundred species of Larks, but of these only theHomed Lark and its geographical varieties are foundin this country. The variation in color shown by the Horned Larkthrouo-hout its rano-e is remarkable. From the Mexican Horned Lark tableland northward to Labrador and otocoris nipeHris. 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. XLVI. Page 143. WHITE-THROATED 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 crownmore like back; yellow markings duller. HORNED LAEK. 127 these races are found in the eastern United States, theHorned Lark and the Prairie Horned Lark, The formervisits ns 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. Prom 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 wins:averages -iST inches in length, the Praii-ie Larks wingaverages but 4*08 inches in length; the formers for
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