PANAMA MEADOWLARK 



A species of terrestrial and gregarious habits 

 found in open fields and sabanas. Quite com- 

 mon between Juan Diaz and Panama near the 

 road to old Panama; in April, 1924, several noted, 

 the males in breeding plumage. They look not 

 unlike small dark meadowlarks with a red in- 

 stead of a yellow breast. 



10. Sturnella magna paralios Bangs 

 Panama Meadowlark 



Sturnella magna inexpectata (part) RIDGWAY, Birds of N. 

 and M. Amer., II, p. 364, 1902. 



Length 198 mm. (7.80 in.); tail 65 mm. (2.50 



in:). 



Male. Brown above streaked with black, 

 buff, and whitish; top of head with a median 

 buffy streak, also a buffy streak above and 

 behind, and a dark streak in continuation of 

 eye, below that sides of head dull, grayish 

 white; throat and breast bright yellow shading 

 to buffy brown on sides and abdomen which 

 are streaked with dark brown; a large black 

 crescent on breast; outer tail feathers largely 

 white. 



Female. Similar but paler. 



A bird of the sabanas, not common in the 

 Canal Zone. One heard and seen near Gamboa 

 in May, 1924. Its song is a short phrase of clear 

 sweet whistles of varying pitches, resembling 

 that of the eastern North American meadowlark, 

 Sturnella m. magna. 



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