272 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



130. Dolichonyx oryzivorus (Linnaeus). Bobolink. 



Dolichonyx oryzivorus Cory, Cat. W. Indian Birds, 1892, no (I. of Pines, in geog. 

 distr.). — GuNDLACH, Orn. Cubana, 1895, 117 (I. of Pines). — Bangs & Zappey, 

 Am. Nat., XXXIX, 1905, 213 (I. of Pines, ex Cory and Gundlach). 



" Bobolink" Read, Oologist, XXVIII, 1911, 7, 13, and XXX, 1913, 131 (I. of Pines; 

 migr.). 



An abundant migrant throughout the West Indies, although actually 

 recorded from the Isle of Pines on but a few occasions. Gundlach 

 casually refers to its occurrence there, and it is included in Mr. Cory's 

 list as found in the island, doubtless on the authority of Gundlach. 

 Mr. Read says that he observed a flock of twenty birds on May 9, 

 1910, which were gone by the next day, and a few also in the fall 

 migration, on September 24 of the same year. 



131. Sturnella magna hippocrepis (Wagler). Cuban Meadowlark. 



Sturnella hippocrepis Poey, Mem. Hist. Nat. Cuba, 1854, 426 (Nueva Gerona, ^cfe 

 Gundlach). — Cory, Cat. W. Indian Birds, 1892, no (I. of Pines, in geog. distr.). 

 — Gundlach, Orn. Cubana, 1895, 121 (I. of Pines). — Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., No. 50, II, 1902, 368 (I. of Pines, in geog. distr.). — Bangs & Zappey, Am. 

 Nat., XXXIX, 1905, 212 (Santa Fe, Jucaro, and Cayo Bonito; crit.). — Read, 

 Oologist, XXVI, 1909, 102 (syn.); XXVIII, 1911, 12 (I. of Pines). — Read, 

 Bird-Lore, XIII, 1911, 44 (McKinley); XV, 1913, 45, and XVI, 1914, 50 (Santa 

 Barbara). 



''Meadowlark" Read, Oologist, XXVI, 1909, 58 (I. of Pines); XXVII, 1910, 84 

 (McKinley to Nueva Gerona); XXX, 1913, 122 (McKinley; habits). 



"Cuban Aleadowlark" Read, Forest and Stream, LXXIII, 1909, 452 (I. of Pines). 

 — Read, Oologist, XXVII, 1910, 5 (Nuevas River), 42 (I. of Pines; nesting); 

 XXVIII, 1911, 3 (McKinley), 6, 11 (Nuevas River), 7 (Canada Mountains, etc.), 

 113 (West McKinley); XXX, 1913, 123 (McKinley and Nuevas River), 125, 

 127 (Santa Barbara), 130 (I. of Pines), 168 (Los Indios). 



Seventeen specimens: Bibijagua and Los Indios. 



Mr. Chapman {Bulletin American Museum of Natural History, IV, 

 1892, 305) contends that hippocrepis is more closely allied to neglecta 

 than to any other form of the genus, and Mr. Ridgway has so far 

 indorsed this view as to accord the former specific rank. I confess 

 that after a study of this fine series in connection with ample and 

 comparable material from other sections I fail to find the slightest 

 justification for such an arrangement. As a matter of fact, hippocrepis 

 is so close to its nearest geographical representative, arguiula of south- 

 ern Florida (as later admitted by Mr. Chapman himself — cf. Bulletin 

 American Museum of Natural History, XIII, 1900, 300) that it is 

 often difficult properly to assign a given specimen by virtue of its 



