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STURNELLA MAGNA (Linn.), var. NEGLECTA, Aud. 



"Western Meadow Lark. 



Stumella neglecta, Aud., B. Am., vii, 1843, 339, pi. cccelxxxvii. — Bd., Stans. Rep. 

 Exp. Great Salt Lake, 1S52, 31G.— Woodh., Sitgreave's Exp. Zuiii & Col. 

 Riv., 1854, 7S.— Newb., P. R, R, Rep., vi, 1857, SO.— Bd., Birds N. A., 1858, 

 537.— Id., U. S. & Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1S59, Birds, 19.— Xantus, 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1S59, 192 (Fort Tejon, Cal.).— Hekrm.. P. R, 

 Rep., x, pt. iv, 1859, 54.— Kenneely, P. R. R. Rep., Whipple's Route, 1859, 

 31.— Henry, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1S59, 107 (New Mexico).— Coop. 

 & Suckl., P. R. R. Rep., xii, pt. ii, 1800, 20S.— Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci., Phila., 1860, 91 (Fort Whipple, Ariz. ; rare).— Hayd., Trans. Am. Phil. 

 Soc, xii, 1S02, 109.— Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila,, 1SGS, 84.— 

 Cooper, Birds Cal., i, 1870, 270.— Stev., U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1870, 405.— 

 Snow, Birds Kan., 1872, 11.— IIold., Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 1S72, 

 203.— Merriam, U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1872, 087. 



Stumella ludoviciana var. neglecta, Allen, Bui. Mus. Comp. Zool., 1872, 17S. — Id., 

 Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., June, 1874, 10, 18, 30. 



Stumella magna var. neglecta, Coues, Key N. A. Birds, 1872, 157. — Bd., Brew., & 

 Ridg., N. A. Birds, ii, 1S74, pi. 34, f. 1. — Yarkow & Hensiiaw, Rep. Orn. 

 Specs., 1872, Wheeler's Exped., 1874,19. — Henshaw, An. Lye. Nat, Hist. 

 N. Y., xi, 1874, 7.— Id., An. List Birds Utah, 1872, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 

 45.— Id., Rep. Orn. Specs., 1S73, Wheeler's Exped., 1S74, 05, 82.— Coues, 

 Birds Northwest, 1S74, 190. 



In Arizona and New Mexico, the Meadow Lark is of rather infrequent 

 occurrence in summer ; the nature of the region generally being - unsuited to 

 its wants and habits. Near some of the settlements in New Mexico, how- 

 ever, and on a few of the more fertile grassy plains of Arizona, these birds 

 have been noticed in the breeding season, though most of the instances 

 when we have noted its occurrence have been in the fall, when the birds 

 had probably moved to the southward from localities farther north. 



Near Denver, Colo., I found them quite numerous in the fields about the 

 city in May, and here the striking differences of song between this variety 

 and our Eastern Lark {magna) were pointed out to me by farmers, who were 

 completely at a loss to understand why the Meadow Lark, so familiar to 

 them in the East, should sing " so queerly out here.'' Throughout Utah and 

 Eastern Nevada, it was fairly abundant, inhabiting the grain fields and the 

 grassy pastures on the outskirts of the towns. Dr. Hoffman also noted it 

 in Independence Valley, and the whole of Owen's Valley, California, 



