266 NeEtson, ew North American Birds. ‘ aly 
General notes.—This well-marked subspecies may be at once 
distinguished from the other races of X. /uxuosa by the white 
spots above and below the eyes, the yellow bases of the feathers 
on the crown and the yellow on the sides of the neck, around the 
border of the black on the breast, and along the middle of the 
lower parts. Two specimens in the National Museum from Colima 
are intermediate between the present form and X. /. wivida but are 
nearest the latter. 
Callothorus zeneus assimilis, subsp. nov. SMALL RED-EYED 
CowBIRD. 
Type, No. 144490, & ad., U. S. Nat. Mus., Biological Survey Collection. 
Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico, January 25, 1895, E. W. Nelson and E. A. 
Goldman. 
Distribution. — Pacific coast of Mexico from southern Jalisco and Colima 
to Chiapas. 
Subspecific characters.— Male similar to C, e@veus but much smaller. 
Female unknown. 
Measurements of type. — Wing, 114; tail, 80; culmen, 21; tarsus, 30. 
General notes —Birds from San Blas, Tepic, are intermediate in 
size between typical C. @neus from Mazatlan and C. a, assimilis 
from Colima and the interior of southern Jalisco. 
Sturnella magna alticola, subsp. nov. HIGHLAND MEapow- 
LARK. 
Type, No. 144524, ¢ ad., U. S. Nat. Mus., Biological Survey Collection. 
Ocuilapa, Chiapas, Mexico, August 21, 1895, E. W. Nelson and E. A. Gold- 
man. 
Distribution. — Pacific coast of Mexico from Salina Cruz, Oaxaca, to 
Tonala, Chiapas, and thence through the high interior of Chiapas and the 
highlands of Guatemala at least to Duefias. 
Subspecific characters. — Similar to S. magna of the eastern United 
States but intermediate in size between it and the pigmy S. m. znexspfectata ; 
the bill smaller than in S. magna but tarsus relatively and absolutely 
longer, averaging about 43 mm.; yellow of throat extends up on middle 
of whitish malar stripe but never occupies all of it as in S. neglecta. 
Dimensions of type.— Wing, 113; tail, 70; culmen, 32; tarsus, 43. 
