2o6 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Genus STURNELLA Vieillot. 

 SturnellaNYKiiA.. Analyse, i8i6, 34. Type, Alauda magna lan^m. 

 501. Sturnella magna Linn.). 



Meadowlark. 



Alauda magna Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 167. 

 Sturnella magna Swains. Phil. Mag. I. 1827, 436. 

 [B 406, C 214, R 263, C 320.] 

 Geog. Dist. — Eastern United States and southern Canada to the 

 Plains. Breeds from the Gulf of Mexico northward. 



501 a. Sturnella magna mexicana (Scl.). 



Mexican Meadowlark. 



Sturnella mexicana Scl. Ibis, 1 861, 179. 



Sturnella magna var. mexicana B. B. & R. Hist. N. Am. B. II. 

 1874, 172. 



[B— , C— , R 263^, C 321.] 

 Geog. Dist. — Valley of the Lower Rio Grande and southern Ari- 

 zona, and south through eastern and central Mexico to Panama. 



501 b. Sturnella magna neglecta (Aud.). 



Western Meadcwlark. 



Sturnella neglecta Aud. B. Am. VII, 1843, 339, pi. 487. 

 Sturnella magna var. neglecta Allen, Bull. M. C. Z. III. No. 2, 

 July, 1872, 178. 



[B 407, C 214^, R 264, C 322.] 

 Geog. Dist. — Western United States, from Wisconsin, Illinois, 

 Iowa, Texas, etc., west to the Pacific coast and north to British 

 Columbia and Manitoba, south through central and western Mexico 

 to Guanajuato and Jalisco. 



Genus ICTERUS Brisson. 



Subgenus ICTERUS. 



Icterus Briss. Orn. II. 1760, 85. Type, by elimination, Oriolus 

 icterus Linn. 



