Cory oji the Birds of the West Indies. lOQ 



Genus Xanthocephalus Bonap. 



JCaiiikocephahis Bonaparte, Consp. I, p. 431 (1850). 



Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus (Bonap.). 



Icterus icterocef Julius Bp. Am. Orn. I, p. 27 (1825). 



Xanthocephalus icterocefhalus Gundl. J. f. O. 1862, p. 178 (Cuba) ; ib. 



Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 288 (1866) ; ib. J. f, O. 1874, p. 133 



(Cuba).— Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 14 (1885). 



Dr. Gundlach writes me that he purchased a bird of this spe- 

 cies in tliiC market in Havana. 



Genus Sturnella Vieill. 



Sturnella Vieillot, Analyse, p. 34 (1816). 



Sturnella hippocrepis Wagl. 



Sturnella hippocrepis Wagl. Isis, 1833, p. 2S1. — Cab. J. f. O. 1856, p. 14. 



— Lawr. Ann. N. Y. Lye. VII, p. 266 (i860). — Brewer, Pr. Bost. 



See. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 307 (i860). — Albrecht, J. f. O. 1861, p. 206. — 



ScL. Ibis, 1861, p. 179; ib. Cat. Am. Bds. p. 139 (1862). — Guxdl. J. 



f. O. 1861, pp. ^2, 413; ib. 1871, p. 276; ib. 1874, p. 133. — Cassix, 



Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1S66, p. 24.— Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 14 



(1885). 

 Sturnella ludoviciatia ScL. & Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 38 (1873) 



(Cuba). 

 Sturnella ludoviciana var. hippocrepis Bd. Bwr. & RiDGW. Hist. N. Am. 



Bds. II, p. 172 (1874). — ScL. Ibis, 1SS4, p. 25. 



Sp. Char. Male: — Above mottled with buft", black and brown ; the feathers 

 of the back being dark brown, bordered and blotched with buff and 

 light brown ; a narrow imperfect stripe of whitish on the middle 01 

 the crown; a stripe of vellow from the nostril, over the eve, contin- 

 uing in a stripe of dull bufly white to the sides of the neck; checks 

 brownish ; throat and middle underparts yellow, interrupted by a 

 band of black on the upper breast; sides of the body, lower belly, 

 and under tail-coverts dull buff, the feathers heavily streaked with 

 dark brown ; a patch of yellow on the carpus ; legs and feet pale 

 brown. 



The sexes are similar. 



Length (okin), 8.45; wing, 3.95; tail, 2.75; tarsus, 1.50; bill, i.io. 

 Has a general resemblance to Florida specimens of Sturnella 

 inagna^ but differing from it in having tiic legs and chiws 

 largc-r, and tlie underparts much more streaked. 

 Habitat. Cuba. 



