456 ICTERIDZ. 
but from nowhere on the eastern seaboard of Southern Mexico. In Cuba it has as yet 
only been noticed in the market of Havana, where dead specimens have been bought. 
X. longipes builds its nest in marshy places, attaching it to the upright stalks of the 
reeds, and making it of flexible grasses, the whole nest being of a lighter structure than 
those of other Agela@i; the eggs are of a pale greenish-white colour, profusely spotted 
with several shades of purple-brown. 
Subfam. II]. STURNELLINA. 
Nares plus minusve membrano obtecte; mesorhinium altum, haud dilatatum, complanatum; culmen fere 
rectus; ale secundarlis mediis elongatis. 
STURNELLA. 
Siurnella, Vieillot, Anal. p. 34 (1816) ; Coues, Key N. Am. B. ed. 2, p. 405; Scl. Cat. B. Brit. 
Mus. xi. p. 358. 
Mr. Sclater separates the South-American Stwrnelline in which the culmen is slightly 
rounded anteriorly and the prevailing colour red from Stuwrnella magna under Bona- 
parte’s generic name Trupialis, leaving S. magna the sole representative of Sturnelia. 
Its mottled upper plumage, yellow under surface, and conspicuous black pectoral 
band render it a very distinct bird. The culmen is nearly straight, in some specimens 
even concave where it is flattened over the nostrils, towards the apex it is slightly 
depressed ; there is a distinct tumid operculum over the nostrils, which are situated 
considerably in advance of the angle of the tomia; the feet are strong, the hind toe and 
claw being strongly developed ; the wings are short and much rounded, the first, second, 
third, and fourth quills nearly equal and longest; the median secondaries are much 
elongated, and reach to the tip of the fifth quill when the wing is closed; the tail- 
feathers are rather narrow and acute at their tips. 
1. Sturnella magna. V 
Alauda magna, Linn. 8. N. i. p. 2897. 
Sturnella magna, Sw. Phil. Mag. new ser. i. p. 4367; Baird, Brew., & Ridgw. N. Am. B. ii. p. 174°; 
Coues, B. N. W. p. 190*; Scl. Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xi. p. 358 °. 
Sturnus ludovicianus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 290°; Licht. Preis-Verz. Mex. Vég. p.17. 
Sturnella ludoviciana, Scl. P. Z.8. 1856, p. 142°; 1858, p. 858°; Cab. J. f. Orn. 1861, p. 10”; 
Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N.Y. ix. p.104"; Cass. Pr. Ac. Phil. 1866, p. 23"; Frantz. J. f. Orn. 
1869, p. 803"; Salv. P. Z. 8S. 1870, p. 191“; Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 268%; Ibis, 1885, 
p. 219"; Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, p. 330"; Salv. & Godm. Ibis, 1879, p. 201%; Boucard, P. Z. S. 
1883, p. 446”. 
Sturnus collaris, Wagl. Syst. Av. fol. 14, p. 6”; Isis, 1831, p. 5277. 
Sturnus hippocrepis, Wag]. Isis, 1832, p. 281”. 
Sturnella hippocrepis, Bp. P. Z. 8. 1837, p. 110”; Cass. Pr. Ac. Phil. 1848, p. 90%; Scl. P. Z. S. 
1856, p. 801”; 1859, pp. 365°, 38177; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 19%; 1860, p. 834”; 
Moore, P.Z.S. 1859, p. 58 °°; Gundl. Orn. Cub. p. 100“. 
