FEBRUARY I5, 1901 VoL. II, pp. 55-56 
PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
NEW ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL CLUB 
A NEW MEADOWLARK FROM SOUTH AMERICA. 
BY OUTRAM BANGS. 
Tue half dozen specimens of Stursne/la taken by Mr. W. W. 
Brown, Jr., at San Sebastian and El] Mamon in the Sierra Nevada 
de Santa Marta, I referred’ provisionally to S. mertdionalis Scl., 
with the remark that they had not the long bills peculiar to the 
Bogota birds. Since then I have awaited an opportunity for 
making careful comparisons, which a recent visit to Washington 
has afforded. Dr. Ridgway and I there examined critically a 
large series of South and Central American Meadowlarks, and 
found that there appear to be two distinct species in South 
America proper. One is SS. meridionalis of the Bogota region of 
Colombia (exact limits of range unknown), distinguished at once 
by its immensely long bill and dark coloration. The other is a 
race of the S. magna series, locally distributed throughout the 
coastal region of eastern South America, from Colombia to 
Venezuela and Guiana,” with normal] bill, and most nearly related 
to the dark-colored form of Central America, from which it differs 
chiefly in being exceedingly pale in color throughout. 
1 Proc. New England Zoél. Club, Vol. I, p. 79, Dec. 27, 1899. 
2 We examined but one specimen each from the coasts of Venezuela and Guiana, and with 
this limited material cannot be certain that the bird from these regions is the same as the Santa 
Marta one, but it has every appearance of being so. 
