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Rance.— Valleys of California west of the Sierra Nevada, straggling south 
and east to San Diego and Owens Lake, California, and Casa Grande, western 
Arizona; recorded also as breeding at Cape Disappointment, Washington. 
Agelaius tricolor (AupuBOoN). Tricolored Red-wing. [500.] 
Icterus tricolor AupuBON, Orn. Biog., V, 1839, 1. (Santa Barbara, Cali- 
fornia.) 
RanGeE.— Pacific coast from valleys of northwestern Oregon (west 
of Cascade Range) south through California (west of Sierra Nevada) 
to northern Lower California. 
GENUS STURNELLA VIEILLOT. 
Sturnella VinituotT, Analyse, 1816, 34. Type, by monotypy, ‘Stourne, 
ou Merle a fer-a-cheval, Buff.”” = Alauda magna LINN&Us. 
Sturnélia magna (LINN ©Us). 
RanGe.— Eastern United States south to northern South America. 
a. Sturnella magna magna (Linnmus). Meadowlark. [501.] 
Alauda magna LInNmus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 167. (Carolina.) 
RanceE.— Eastern North America. Breeds in Transition and Upper Austral 
zones from eastern Minnesota, southern Ontario, southern Quebec, and New 
Brunswick south to northern Texas, Missouri, and North Carolina, and west 
to western Iowa, eastern Kansas, and northwestern Texas; winters regularly 
from the Potomae and Ohio valleys south to the Gulf States, and north 
locally to the Great Lakes and southern Maine. 
b. Sturnella magna hoOpesi Srone. Rio Grande Meadowlark. [501a.] 
Sturnella magna hoopesi Stone, Proe. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1897, 149. 
(Brownsville, Texas.) 
Rance.— Lower Sonoran Zone from north central Arizona, southern New 
Mexico, and southern Texas south into Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, and 
Tamaulipas. 
c. Sturnella magna argitula Banas. Southern Meadowlark. [501c.] 
Sturnella magna argutula Banas, Proce. N. Engl. Zool. Club, I, 1899, 20. 
(Dunedin, Hillsboro Co., Florida.) 
