206 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
Genus STURNELLA VIEILLOoT. 
Sturnella ViEILL. Analyse, 1816, 34. Type, Alauda magna LINN. 
501. Sturnella magna LiInv.). 
Meadowlark. 
Alauda magna LINN. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 167. 
Sturnella magna Swains. Phil. Mag. I. 1827, 436. 
(Brao6, C274. 'R 263, 'C 320.) 
Geoc. Dist.— Eastern United States and southern Canada to the 
Plains. Breeds from the Gulf of Mexico northward. 
501 a. Sturnella magna mexicana (SCL.). 
Mexican Meadowlark. 
Sturnella mexicana Scu. Ibis, 1861, 179. 
Sturnella magna var. mexicana B. B. & R. Hist. N. Am. B. II. 
cite UN Oy 
[B—, C—, R 263a, C 321.] 
Geoc. Dist.— Valley of the Lower Rio Grande and southern Ari- 
zona, and south through eastern and central Mexico to Panama. 
501 4. Sturnella magna neglecta (AUD.). 
Western Meadowlark. 
Sturnella neglecta Aup. B. Am. VII. 1843, 339, pl. 487. 
Sturnella magna var. neglecta ALLEN, Bull. M. C. Z. III. No. 2, 
July, 1872, 178. 
[B 407, C 214@)\Ri gba C322.) 
Groc. Dist.— Western United States, from Wisconsin, Illinois, 
Iowa, Texas, etc., west to the Pacific coast and north to British 
Columbia and Manitoba, south through central and western Mexico 
to Guanajuato and Jalisco. 
Genus ICTERUS Brisson. 
SuUBGENUs ICTERUS. 
Icterus Briss. Orn. II. 1760, 85. Type, by elimination, Orzolus 
icterus LINN. 
