250 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



HAB. Pacific Province of the United States, from the Columbia 

 River southward. 



GENUS STURNELLA VIEILLOT. 

 Sturnella VIEILL. Analyse, 1816, 34. Type, Alauda magna LINN. 



501. Sturnella magna (LINN.). 



Meadowlark. 



Alauda magna LINN. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 167. 

 Sturnella magna SWAINS. Phil. Mag. I. 1827, 436. 



[B 406, C 214, R 263, C 320.] 

 HAB. Eastern United States and Southern Canada to the Plains. 



501 a. Sturnella magna mexicana (SCL.). 



Mexican Meadowlark. 



Sturnella mexicana SCL. Ibis, 1861, 179. 



Sturnella magna var. mexicana B. B. & R. Hist. N. Am. B. II. 1874, 

 172. 



[B , C , R 263 a, 321.] 

 HAB. Valley of the Lower Rio Grande, and Arizona, southward. 



501 . Sturnella magna neglecta (Aim). 



Western Meadowlark. 



Sturnella neglecta AUD. B. Am. VII. 1843, 339, pi. 487. 

 Sturnella magna var. neglecta ALLEN, Bull. M. C. Z. III. No. 2, July, 

 1872, 178. 



[B 407, C 2T4<7, R 264, C 322.] 



HAB. Western United States, from Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Texas, 

 etc., west to the Pacific coast. 



GENUS ICTERUS BRISSON. 



SUBGENUS ICTERUS. 



Icterus BRISS. Orn. II. 1760, 85. Type, by elimination, Oriolus icte- 

 rus LINN. 



