. Birds of the Colorado valley ... scientific and popular information concerning North American ornithology;. Birds. HORNED LARK AND ITS VARIETIES 189 Fledglings, just from the nest, are altogether different from the adults. They have the upper parts dusky, mixed with some yellowish-browu, and 8j)rinkled all over with whitish or light tawny dots, each feather having a terminal speck. Most of the wing- and tail-feathers have rusty, tawny, or whitish edging and tipping. The under parts are white, mottled with the colors of the upper parts along the sides and across the back. There are no traces
. Birds of the Colorado valley ... scientific and popular information concerning North American ornithology;. Birds. HORNED LARK AND ITS VARIETIES 189 Fledglings, just from the nest, are altogether different from the adults. They have the upper parts dusky, mixed with some yellowish-browu, and 8j)rinkled all over with whitish or light tawny dots, each feather having a terminal speck. Most of the wing- and tail-feathers have rusty, tawny, or whitish edging and tipping. The under parts are white, mottled with the colors of the upper parts along the sides and across the back. There are no traces of definite black markings about the head and breast, nor is there any yellow tinge. Bill and feet pale or yellowish. This peculiar speckled stage Is of brief duration ; with an early autumnal change, a dress, little if at all different ffom that of the adults in winter, is â piG. 25.âHorned Lark. Var. leucolwma.âSize of the foregoing. General coloration extremely paleâbrownish-gray, the peculiar pinkish tint of certain parts sharing the general pallor. Black markings on head and breast much restricted in extent, and white surroundings correspondingly increasedâthus, the black postfrontal bar is scarcely or not broader than the white of the forehead. No yellow about the head, excepting usually a slight tinge on the chin. The changes of plumage are parallel with those already given; even the nestlings show the same decided pallor. Var. chrysolcBma.âSmaller than either of the foregoing : ^ with the wing scarcely or not 4, and other dimensions to correspond ; a very small speci- men before me, probably 9 > lias the wing only 3|; in another, marked g, it is3f. The "pink;sb" tinge intensified into cinnamon-brown, and pervad- ing nearly all the upper parts. Yellow of the head intensified, and the black markings very lieavyâthe black on the crown often or usually widens to occupy more than half of the cap, reducing the white frontlet to a mere trace. As
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