. The birds of Ohio; a complete scientific and popular description of the 320 species of birds found in the state . ink size; black throat and headpatches; feather tufts or horns directed backward. To be distinguished fromO. a. praficola by its larger size, and from 0. a hoyti by the fact that both throatand superciliary line are yellozc. Nesting.—Does not breed in Ohio. Nest, a cup-shaped depression in thesurface of the ground, plentifully lined with fine grasses, moss, grouse feathers,etc. Eggs, 3 or 4, greenish- or grayish-white, profusely and minutely dottedwith olive-buflF, greenish brown
. The birds of Ohio; a complete scientific and popular description of the 320 species of birds found in the state . ink size; black throat and headpatches; feather tufts or horns directed backward. To be distinguished fromO. a. praficola by its larger size, and from 0. a hoyti by the fact that both throatand superciliary line are yellozc. Nesting.—Does not breed in Ohio. Nest, a cup-shaped depression in thesurface of the ground, plentifully lined with fine grasses, moss, grouse feathers,etc. Eggs, 3 or 4, greenish- or grayish-white, profusely and minutely dottedwith olive-buflF, greenish brown and lavender. A typical set from Labrador, asdescribed by Major Bendire, measures .96 x .66 ( x ) ; .95 x .68 ( ) ; .87 x .64 ( X ). General Range.—Northeastern British America west to Hudson Bay andsouth to Newfoundland, Labrador, etc.; accidental in Greenland; in winter westto Manitoba and south to Illinois, Ohio, the Carolinas, etc. Range in Ohio.—Common winter resident, especially in the northern about in flocks in conjunction with O. a. hoyti and O. a. -^•5**^ »,» -:^ HOPiNED LARK* h Life-size THE HORNED EARK. 199 THE Horned Lark bears the reputation of being the most plastic ofAmerican species—the Song Sparrow {Melospisa cinerea) alone competingwith it in this respect. A recent monograph by Mr. Harry C. Oberholser^enumerates twenty-two forms, of whic-li sixteen are described as NorthAmerican, and five Mexican, beside one from Colombia and another (0. ) from Eurasia. Of this number the majority occur west of the Miss-issippi River, where climatic conditions are more sharply differentiated, andwhere, especially in the southwest, the situation admits of that permanentresidence which is almost essential to the marked development of subspecificforms. Doubtless other forms will be elaborated, and perhaps some of the•listinctinns here pointed out will l^rn^•e inconstant, and the names proposed
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