572 BIRPS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



Key to the Subspecies. 



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



than 68 ; lower flanks, thighs, and under 

 tail-coverts cream-white, with dark brown 

 elongated centres to the feathers S. m. -praticola, p. 572. 



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



more than 68 ; lower flanks, thighs, and 

 under tail-coverts dark bufE, with blackish 

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



707. Sturnella magna praticola. 



Lowland Meadow Starling. 



Sturnella ludoviciana Cab. in Schomb. Eeis. Guian. iii. p. 682, 1848 



(Savannas) ; Brown, Canoe and Camp Life in British Guiana, 



p. 168, 1876 (Curaushinang). 

 Sturnella meridionalis Brabourne & Clmbb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 437, 



no. 4498 part, 1912. 

 Sturnella magna praticola, Chubb, Ann. & Mag. Nat. 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 last more or less tinged 

 with buff; back, wings, and middle tail-feathers smoke-brown, 

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

 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 tail- 

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

 brown on the outer webs near the tip and on the 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 ; sides of face and sides of neck greyish white, the 

 feathers dotted and fringed with blackish ; throat, breast, edge of 

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

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

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

 coverts white ; under surface of flight-guills pearl grey ; lower 

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

 on the middle portion. 



