56 BANGS — SOUTH AMERICAN MEADOWLARK  [ P-N.E.Z.C. 
This pale, southern, coastal race appears to need a name, and 
may be known as 
Sturnella magna paralios* subsp. nov. 
Type, from San Sebastian, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia, 6600 
feet altitude, # adult, no. 6954, coll. of E. A. and O. Bangs, collected July 25, 
1899, by W. W. Brown, Jr. 
Characters.— Size small; bill stout, but not unusually long; crescent 
narrow; yellow of throat slightly extended onto lower malar region (less so 
than in S. meridionalis); general coloration very pale. Can be told from S. 
meridionalis by much shorter bill and paler colors, and from the very dark- 
colored race of S. magna of Central America by its exceedingly pale color- 
ation. 
Color.2— General color above light brownish cinnamon, the feathers with 
broad edging of pale buff and with dark brown centres —the latter color 
showing but little except when the feathers are disturbed; the three light- 
colored head stripes broad and pale buff, the central one extending broadly to 
base of culmen; sides of head below postocular streak very pale —buffy ; 
breast, throat, stripe above, and in front of, eye, and bend of wing pale gam- 
boge-yellow; black crescent narrow; middle of belly white; sides, flanks, and 
under tail coverts buff, streaked with dark brown; lining of wing grayish 
white. 
MEASUREMENTS (in millimeters). 
No. Sex Locality Date Wing Tail Tarsus Culmen 
6954 & San Sebastian July 25, 1899 Skee sgl 390.0 34:0 
GOS se) at as Aug.10, 1899 108.0 — 38.0. 346 
6953 & El Mamon July 11, 1899 TOSs5" 7/2. 38.2 32.6 
6p52. id oH July 2, 1899 108.0 73. 39.0 33.0 
6956 @ San Sebastian July 11, 1899 98.0 65. 34-5 32.0 
1 Ilapadvos — that grows or occurs by the seaside. 
2 The six specimens are in similar, fresh, unworn plumage, having just completed the moult. 
