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Sturnella magna neglecta (Avp.). 
WESTERN MEADOWLARE. 
Sturnella neglecta Betp1nG, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., VI. 1888, 351 (La Paz and s.). 
Sturnella magna neglecta Bryant, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2d ser., II. 1889, 294 (San 
José del Cabo; La Paz). 
Mr. Belding gives the Western Meadowlark as “rare” in the “vicinity of 
La Paz and southward.” It was met with by Mr. Frazar only at San José del 
Cabo and Santiago. At the former place it arrived on October 14, after which 
a few were seen at intervals during the remainder of October and the first half 
of November. At Santiago a solitary bird was killed on November 19. In 
the central and northern portions of the Peninsula it has been found “upon a 
narrow strip of sand-hills between the estero and the ocean, about seventy miles 
from Magdalena Island”; near Pozo Grande; “ within a few days’ travel of San 
Quintin”; on Cerros Island; and near San Rafael (Bryant). At San Fer- 
nando, according to Mr. Anthony, it is “‘not uncommon during winter at the 
mission, but very rare, if present, in summer.”! These facts indicate that the 
bird occurs rather generally but sparingly and more or less locally over the en- 
tire Peninsula, probably breeding in the central and northern portions, and 
visiting the Cape Region only in autumn and winter. Still further north- 
ward it is common from southern California to British Columbia, and it even 
reaches Alaska (Sitka), according to Mr. J. K. Lord.? Southward it ranges 
“through central and western Mexico to Guanajuato and Jalisco.” § 
Icterus parisorum Bonar. 
Scorr’s ORIOLE. 
Icterus parisorum Barry, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila , 1859, 301 (Cape St. Lucas), 
305 (descr. female; Cape St. Lucas). Cassin, [bid., 1867, 54 (Lower Calif.). 
Batrp, Brewer, and Ripeway, Hist. N. Amer. Birds, II. 1874, 189, 190 
(abundant at Cape St. Lucas, with breeding habits). Brxprne, Proc. U.S. 
Nat. Mus., V. 1883, 541 (Cape Region); WI. 1883, 348 (Victoria Mts.). 
Bryant, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2d ser., II. 1889, 295 (Cape Region). Brn- 
pire, Life Hist. N. Amer. Birds, pt. Il. 1895, 473 (breeding habits in Cape 
Region). 
In my large series of specimens of this Oriole, there is so much variation, affect- 
ing, apparently, adult as well as young birds, that it is impossible to describe 
the different plumages under the usual stereotyped headings. Both sexes seem 
to have two distinct phases of coloring, certainly common to all seasons, and 
having no obvious connection with the age of the individual. Thus a certain 
1 Auk, XII. 1895, 140. 
2 Naturalist in Vancouver Island and British Columbia, IJ. 1866, 147. 
3 A. O. U.,Check List, 2d ed., 1895, 206. 
