Throat and forehead white, with only a very faint tinge of yellow; pinkish tinge above more rufous. _Hab._ Interior Northern Plains of the United States var. _occidentalis_. Throat and forehead pale straw-yellow, or strongly tinged with it; pinkish tinge above varying from ashy-lilacous to purplish-rufous. _Hab._ Northern regions of Old and New Worlds var. _alpestris_. Wing (adult male), 3.80 to 4.10; tail, 2.75 to 2.90; culmen, .53 to .62. White frontal band, .13 to .16 wide; the black prefrontal patch, .35 to .50 wide. Pinkish above of a deep cinnamon shade. _Hab._ Desert plains of South Middle Province of United States, and table-lands of Mexico, south to Bogota var. _chrysolæma_. [Illustration: PLATE XXXII. 1. Eremophila cornuta. ♂ Nev., 53470. 2. ” ” _Juv._, Wisc., 4330. 3. Alauda arvensis. Europe. 4. Dolichonyx oryzivorus. ♂ Pa., 977. 5. ” ” ♀ Kansas, 13069. 6. Molothrus pecoris. ♀ Ga., 32446. 7. ” ” ♀ 8. ” ” _var._ obscurus. ♂ Manzanillo, Mex., 30165. 9. Xanthocephalus icterocephalus. ♂ Utah, 58624.] Eremophila alpestris, BOIE. THE SHORE LARK. SP. CHAR. _Adult male_; spring. A frontal crescent, curving backward in a broad, sharply defined, superciliary stripe to the occiput; chin, throat and foreneck, and a crescent across middle of ear-coverts, whitish, either more or less tinged with yellow, or pure white. Lower parts, except laterally, white. A broad crescentic patch behind the frontal whitish crescent, running back on each side of the crown and terminating in an erectile tuft of narrow elongated feathers on each side of occiput, a patch covering the lores, nasal tufts, passing beneath the eye, and forming a broad “mustache” on the cheeks, with a convex outline behind and concave anteriorly, and a broad crescentic patch across the jugulum, deep black. A crescentic spot of grayish-drab across the ends of the auriculars. Posterior portion of the crown enclosed laterally between the “ear-tufts,” occiput, nape, lateral lower parts, lesser and middle wing-coverts, and upper tail-coverts, pinkish-brown; the sides and flanks with obsolete dusky streaks. Back, scapulars, rump, wings, and two middle tail-feathers, ashy-drab, the feathers darker centrally, forming rather conspicuous broad streaks on lower part of back; middle and secondary coverts, secondaries and primaries bordered terminally, quite conspicuously, with white. Tail (except the _intermediæ_) black; outer web of lateral feather almost entirely white, that of the next edged with the same. _Adult female_; spring. Similar, but markings rather less sharply defined; a tendency to streaking of nape and crown; these streaks often displacing the continuous black of the anterior portion of crown. The “ear-tufts” less developed.