BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



361 



Sturnrlla Indoviciana {not StiirnnK I ndoiirianus Linmens) Allen, Bull. Mas. ('oiiip. 



Zool., ii, 1871, 288, excl. syn. (e. Florida; crit.). 

 StumeUa magna (not Alanda magna Linn;eus) Merrlvm, Am. Nat., viii, 1874, 



87 (Okahumkee, Florida).— Maynard, Birds E. N. Am., 1881, 139, part 



(Florida).— Beyer, Proc. Louis. Soc. Nat. for 1897-99 (1900), 105 (Louisiana, 



breeding). 

 SlurneUa magna mexicana, (not Slunu'lla mex'icana Sclater) Chapman, Auk, v, 



1888, 273 (Gainesville, Florida; crit.).— Scott, Auk, vi, 1889, 320 (Tarpon 



Springs, etc., Florida; crit. ). — Bendire, Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1895, 



461, part. 

 SlurneUa magna argntula Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Soc, i, Feb. 28, 1899, 20 



(Dunedin, Hillsboro Co., Florida; coll. E. A. and O. Bangs). — Allen, Auk, 



xviii, 1901, 174 (republication of original descr. ). 



STURNELLA MAGNA HOOPESI Stone. 



TEXAS MEADOWXARK. 



Similar to S. m. niagna^ but yellow of under parts deeper even 

 than in S. m. an/utu/a^ and of a sliohtly (sometimes decidedly) orange 

 hue; coloration of upper parts paler, with black bars on tertials and 

 middle rectrices more frequently isolated, as well as narrower; size of 

 upper Mississippi Valley specimens of aS\ /n. magna. 



Adult 7// (//^.— Length (skins), 200.7-230.6 (215.6); wing-, 11,3-126 

 (117.1); tail, 63.5-79.2 (72.1); cuUiien, from base, 30.2-35.6 (33.3); 

 tarsus, 37.8-41.1 (11); middle toe, 21.1-33 (28.7).^ 



Adult ,/;?m«/t^— Length (skins), 195.6-205.7 (200.1); wing, 100.3- 

 109.7 (106.1); tail, 61-73.7 (68.3); culmen, from base, 30.5-33.5 

 (31.7); tarsus, 3(;.8-39.1 (37.8); middle toe, 27.1-30.5 (28.7),' 



Southeastern Texas and westward through Rio Grande Valley and 

 southern New Mexico (San Luis Springs, Guadalupe Mountauis, etc.) 

 to southern Arizona (Calabasas, San Bernardino Ranch, Sachill, etc.); 

 southward into Sonora (San Pedro, Cachuta, Nacory, Santa Cruz River, 

 etc.). Chihuahua (San Diego), and Tamaulipas (also probably Coahuila 

 and Nuevo Leon). 



^ Twenty-seven specimens. 



■■'Nine specimens (all from Texas). 



Adult males from different localities average as follows: 



Locality. 



Wing. Tail. Culmen. Tarsus. ^^^^^ 



Eight adult males from Corpus Christi, Texas (measured by 



R. Ridgway) 116. 8 



Eight adult males from other jiarts of Te.xas (measured by 



J. H. Riley) j 116.6 



Nine adult males from Mexican boundary (New Mexico 



and Arizona) ' 119. 2 



Two adult males from southern Tamaulipas ' 110. 1 



Three adult males of S. in. mexicana from Guanajuato, Du- 



rango, and Miehoaean ' 115. 3 



74.9 

 73.9 



09. 6 

 72.4 



70.1 



34.8 

 33.8 



32 

 31.7 



42.9 

 40.6 



39.9 

 40.6 



30.9 



28.2 



26.7 

 30.5 



