572 BIRDS or BRITISH GUIANA. 



Key to the Subspecies. 



A. Smaller, wing less than 102 mm.; tail less 



than 68 ; lower flanks, thighs, and under 

 tail-covei-ts cream- white, with dark brown 

 elongated centres to the feathei-s .S'. m. pro. ft col a, p. o72. 



B. Larger, wintf more than 102 mm.; tail 



more than 68 ; lower flanks, thighs, and 

 under tail-coverts dark buff, with bkckish 

 elongated centres to the feathers S. m. monticola. p. 573. 



7i>7. Sturnella magna praticola. 

 Lowland Meadow Starling. 



StvrneUa ludoviciana Cab. in Schomb. Reis. Gruian. iii. p. 682, 1848 



(Savanna.^) : Brown, Canoe and Camp Life in British Guiana, 



p. 168, 1876 (Curauehinang). 

 Sturnella meridionalis Brabomnie & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 437, 



no. 449*5 part, 1912. 

 Sturnella maqna praticola, Chubb, Ann. &. Mas. Xat. Hist. (9) p. 445, 



Oct. 1921. 



Adult male. Crown of head dark brown with a broad white line 

 on each side and one down the centre, the la.-;t more or less tinged 

 with buff; back, wings, and middle tail-feathers .«moke-brown, 

 with dark brown centres and cross-bars to some of the featliers ; 

 lesser upper wing-coverts grey with dark centres to the feathers ; 

 bastard-wing blackish brown edged with white ; inner webs of 

 flight-quills dark brown margined with white ; the two outer t^il- 

 feathers on each side white marked with dark brown, or gievish 

 brown on the outer webs near the tip and on tlie inner one at the 

 base, on the third feather the markings on the inner web are much 

 increased and extend nearly to the tip and take the shape of irre- 

 gular cross-bars, or tooth-marks, and on the fourth feather the white 

 is much reduced in extent and forms only a somewhat broad shaft- 

 line, which is restricted to the inner web ; lores and a line above 

 the eye yellow; side.s of face and sides of neck greyish white, the 

 feathers dotted and fringed with blackish ; throat, brea.st, edge of 

 wing and abdomen yellow ; a black semi-circular mark on the fore- 

 neck ; sides of body and under taii-coverts cream-white with dark 

 brown shaft-marks to the feathers ; axillaries and under wing- 

 coverts white; under surface of flight-quills pearl ;irey; lower 

 aspect of tail white laterally, and dark brown marked with grey 

 on the middle portion. 



