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Range (Breeds in northern Europe)

Breeds in "northern Europe, Greenland, Newfoundland, Labrador, and Hudson Bay region; southward in winter into eastern United States to about lat. 35°" (Dwight).

Washington, common W. V., Nov. to Mch. or Apl. Sing Sing, casual W. V. Cambridge, common T. V., Oct. 25 to Nov. 25; Mch. 25 to Apl. 5. Nest, of grasses, on the ground. Eggs, three to four, pale bluish or greenish white, minutely and evenly speckled with pale grayish brown, 84 x 60. These hardy birds visit us in flocks in the winter. They frequent the vicinity of the seacoast or large, flat, open tracts in the interior, and are rarely found in well-wooded regions. They are terrestrial, and may be seen running over the snow or barren ground in scattered companies. They take wing with a sharp, whistled note, and seek fresh fields or, hesitating, finally swing about and return to near the spot from which they were flushed. They are sometimes found associated with Snowflakes, and flocks may contain numbers of our resident Shore Lark, O. a. praticola. 474b. O. a. praticola Hensh. PRAIRIE HORNED LARK.-Similar to the preceding species, but smaller and somewhat paler, with the forehead and line over the eye white instead of yellow, the throat but slightly tinged * See an important paper on the relationships and distribution of the American representatives of this genus, by Dr. J. Dwight, Jr., in The Auk, vii, 1890, pp. 138-158.

CROWS, JAYS, ETC. with yellow, and sometimes entirely white. L., 7.25; " W., 4.08; T., 2.86; B. from N., 37" (Dwight).