. A popular handbook of the ornithology of the United States and Canada, based on Nuttall's Manual. Birds; Birds. HORNED LARK. SHORE LARK. Otocoris ALPESTRIS. Char. Above, dull grayish brown streaked with darker; nape, shoul- ders, and rump pink-vinaceous cinnamon; black bar across forehead and along sides of head, terminating in erectile horn-like tufts; throat and line over the eyes, yellow; black bar from nostril curving below the eyes; below, dull white, shaded on the sides with same color as back; breast tinged with yellow and bearing large black patch; middle tail-feathers like back, the
. A popular handbook of the ornithology of the United States and Canada, based on Nuttall's Manual. Birds; Birds. HORNED LARK. SHORE LARK. Otocoris ALPESTRIS. Char. Above, dull grayish brown streaked with darker; nape, shoul- ders, and rump pink-vinaceous cinnamon; black bar across forehead and along sides of head, terminating in erectile horn-like tufts; throat and line over the eyes, yellow; black bar from nostril curving below the eyes; below, dull white, shaded on the sides with same color as back; breast tinged with yellow and bearing large black patch; middle tail-feathers like back, the rest black, with white patches on outer pair. Length about lYi inches. Nest. On the ground, amid a bed of moss; composed of grass, lined with feathers. Eggs. 4-5 ; dull white with buff or purple tint spotted with purplish brown or olive brown and lilac; X This beautiful species is common to the north of both the old and new continent; but, as in some other instances already re- marked, the Shore Lark extends its migrations much farther over America than over Europe and Asia. Our bird has been met with in the Arctic regions by the numerous voyagers, and Mr. Bullock saw it in the vrinter around the city of Mexico, so that in their migrations over this continent these birds spread them- selves across the whole habitable northern hemisphere to the very equator; while in Europe, according to the careful obser-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Nuttall, Thomas, 1786-1859; Chamberlain, Montague, 1844-1924. Boston, Little, Brown
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