368 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



S[lur)u'/l.(i'] magna vcgltda Hensiiaw, Oni. Rep. Wheeler's Surv., 1879, 302 (e. 



base Sierra Nevada).— Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 372. 

 iStiirneUa lurlonn<tna ncylcrfa^CLA'rRK, I])is, 1884, 25 (monogr.). 

 [Sturnella mogna'] b. Sub.sp. neglevta Bclatek, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 360, 



in list of specimens (Vancouver I., San Juan I., etc.). 

 Shiriidla liippocrepni^ (not Shirnus hippdcri'ph AVagler) Heermann, Journ. Ac. 



Nat. Sci. Phila., 2d ser., ii, 1852, 269 (Suisun Valley, California). 

 Sturndla magna (not Alaucla magna. Linnaeus) Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. ]Mus., 



xi, 1886, 358, part. — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1887, 



456, part (Coahuila; Espia; Mazatlan; Ciudad, Durango?). 



STURNELLA HIPPOCREPIS (Wagler). 

 CUBAN MEADOWIARK. 



Similar to /S'. verilecfa^ but decidedly .smaller (except bill and feet) 

 and coloration darker and browner above; malar region less exten- 

 sively yellow; black jugular crescent narrower; flanks and under 

 tail-coverts nuu*h more strongly bufi'v: anal region yellow, like abdo- 

 men, instead of white or very pale Ijufl', like under tail-coverts. 



Adult m«Z^.— Length (skins), 1H3.8-219.5 (208); wing, 96.5-107.2 

 (102.1); tail, 61.2-69.9 (65.8); culmen, from base, 31.5-31 (32.3); 

 tarsus, 36.8-40.1: (38.6); middle toe, 26.2-28.7 (27.7).' 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 186.7-215.1 (198.1); wing, 88.9- 

 101.1 (93.7); tail, 53.1-67.8 (60.2); culmen, from base, 29.2-32.5 (30.7); 

 tarsus, 35.1-39.1: (36.1); middle toe, 24.9-28.7 (25.9).- 



Island of Cuba (including Isle of Pines), Greater Antilles. 



Sturnus hippocrepis Wagler, Isis, 1832, 281, in text (Cuba). 



Sturnella hippocrepis Cabanis, Journ. "fiir Orn., 1856, 14 (critical). — Lawrence, 

 Ann. Lye. N. Y., vii, 1860, 266 (crit.).— Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., 

 vii, 1860, 307.— Sclater, Ibis, 1861, 179 (Cuba); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 139 

 (Cuba). — Albrecht, Journ. fiirOrn., 1861, 206. — Gundlach, Journ. fiirOrn., 

 1861, 332, 413; 1871, 276; 1874, 133.— Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 

 24 (monogr.). — Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 222 (synonymy and descr. ); viii, 1891, 

 294 (Cuba); Birds W. I., 1889, 109 (do.); Cat. 'w.'l. Birds, 1892, 14, 110, 

 129 (Cuba; Isle of Pines).— Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., iv, 1892, 304 

 (Trinidad Valley, Cuba; song, etc.; crit.). 



Slfnr7iella'] hippocrepis Cory, List Birds W. I., 1885, 14. 



S[turneUa'] hippocrejns Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 429, part ("Antilles"). 



[Sfnrnellal hippocrepis Cory, List Birds W. I., 1885, 14. 



[Sturnella magna] var. hippocrepis Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, ii, 1874, 172. 



[Sturnella magna^ c. hippoarpis Coves, Birds N. W., 1874, 190 (synonymy). 



Sturnella ludoiiciana hippocrepis Scl.vter, Ibis, Jan., 1884, 25 (monogr.). 



[Sturnella magna^ d. Subsp. hippocrepis Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 

 360, in list of specimens (San Cristobal, Cuba). 



Sturnella ludoriciana (not Sturnus ludovlcianits Linnaeus) Vigors, Zool. Journ., iii, 

 no. xi, 1827, 442 (Cuba). 



[Sturnella'] ludomciana Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 38, part 

 (Cuba). 



' Nine specimens. * Five specimens. 



