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Genus Xanthocephalus Bonap. 



Xanthocephalus Bonaparte, Consp. I, p. 431 (1850). 



Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus (Bonap.). 



Icterus icterocephalus Bp. Am. Orn. I, p. 27 (1S25). 



Xanthocephalus icterocephalus Gundl. J. f. O. 1862, p. 178 (Cuba) ; ib. 



Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 28S (1866) ; ib. J. f. O. 1S74, p. 133 



(Cuba).— Cory, List Eds. W. I. p. 14 (1S85). 



Dr. Gundlach writes me that he purchased a hird of this spe- 

 cies in the market in Havana. 



Genus Sturnella Vieill. 



Sturnella Vieillot, Analyse, p. 34 (1816). 



Sturnella hippocrepis Wagl. 



Stur7iella hippocrepis W agi.. Isis, 1S32, p. 281. — Cab. J. f. O. 1856, p. 14. 



— Lawk. Ann. N. Y. Lye. VIL p- 266 (i860). — Brewer, Pr. Best. 



Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 307 (i860). — Albrecht, J. f. O. 1861. p. 206. — 



ScL. Ibis, 1861, p. 179; ib. Cat. Am. Bds. p. 139 (1862). — Gundl. J. 



f. O. 1861, pp. 332, 413; ib. 1871, p. 276; ib. 1874, p. 133.— Cassin, 



Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1S66, p. 24.— Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 14 



(1885). 

 Sturnella ludoviciana ScL. & Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 38 (1873) 



(Cuba). 

 Sturnella ludoviciana var. hippocrepis Bd. Bwr. & Ridgw. Hist. N. Am. 



Bds. II, p. 172 (1874).— ScL. Ibis, 1884, p. 25. 



Sp. Char. Male: — Above mottled with buff, black and brown ; the feathers 

 of the back being dark brown, bordered and blotched with buff and 

 light brown ; a narrow imperfect stripe of whitish on the middle of 

 the crown; a stripe of yellow from the nostril, over the eye, contin- 

 uing in a stripe of dull buffy white to the sides of the neck; cheeks 

 brownish; throat and middle underparts yellow, interrupted by a 

 band of black on the upper breast; sides of the body, lower belly, 

 and under tail-coverts dull buff, the feathers heavily streaked with 

 dark brown ; a patch of yellow on the carpus ; legs and feet pale 

 brown. 



The sexes are similar. 



Length (skin), 8.45; wing, 3.95 ; tail, 2.75; tarsus, 1.50: bill, i.io. 

 Has a general resemblance to Florida specimens of Sturnella 

 mag7ia^ but diftering from it in having the legs and claws 

 larger, and the underparts mucli more stieaked. 

 Habitat. Cuba. 



