7A.2 Allen, Recently Described North American B, 



iras. 



TAuk 

 LOct. 



"Size. — Type, $ adult: wing, 331; tail, 211 mm. Topotype, $ 

 adult : wing, 347 ; tail, 214 mm." 

 Type locality, Corpus Christi, Texas. 



Sturnella magna hoopesi Stone. 

 Rio Grande Meadowlark. 



Sturnella magna hoopesi Stone, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1897, 

 149. 



"A careful comparison of a large series of specimens shows that the 

 Meadowlark of the Rio Grande Valley is as light or lighter than the 

 lightest neglecta, averaging very similar to this form in the coloration of 

 the upper surface but agreeing with magna in the distribution of the 

 yellow below. The birds from Mexico on the other hand represent the 

 darkest coloration exhibited by [the genus] Sturnella. To unite these 

 two extremes and also the isolated Florida bird under one name seems 

 to me eminently misleading and quite at variance with our treatment of 

 geographical races in other species. 



" I therefore propose to separate as a distinct subspecies the Rio 

 Grande Meadow Lark and to place the Florida bird for the present at 

 least along with true magna, for reasons that will be stated below. The 

 Rio Grande Meadowlark may be separated as follows : 



" Sturnella magna hoopesi subsp. nov. 



"Type No. 786, Coll. Josiah Hoopes, Brownsville, Texas, $ , March 13, 

 1S92, F. B. Armstrong. 



"Color below as in magna, but rather lighter and less buff on the 

 sides and under tail coverts; upper surface much grayer and generally 

 lighter. The brown tints of magna are very largely replaced by gray, 

 especially on the wings. Sides of the face whiter than in magna; tail 

 bars almost always distinct, i. e., not confluent along the shaft of the 

 feather. 



" This bird is the lightest of all the Meadowlarks, averaging a little 

 lighter than neglecta, the tail bars are also more distinct than in any of 

 the other races." 



" While this race approaches neglecta in its general light color, the 

 absence of yellow from the malar region will at once distinguish it. 

 From mexicana it differs more widely than from any of the other races, 

 as we have in these two the extremes of dark and light coloration." 



Melospiza fasciata ingersolli McGregor. 



Tehama Song Sparrow. 



Melospiza fasciata ingersolli McGregor, Bull. Cooper Orn. Club, I, 

 No. 2, March-April, 1899, 35. 



