ORDEB PASSERES. 235 



Range. — Valleys of California west of the Sierra Nevada, straggling south 

 and east to San Diego and Owens Lake, California, and Casa Grande, western 

 Arizona; recorded also as breeding at Cape Disappointment, Washington. 



Agelaius tricolor (Audubon). Tricolored Red-wing. [500.] 



Icterus tricolor Audubon, Orn. Biog., V, 1839, 1. (Santa Barbara, Cali- 

 fornia.) 



Range. — Pacific coast from valleys of northwestern Oregon (west 

 of Cascade Range) south through California (west of Sierra Nevada) 

 to northern Lower California. 



Genus STURNELLA Vieillot. 



Sturnella Vieillot, Analyse, 1816, 34. Type, by monotypy, "Stourne, 

 ou Merle k fer-^cheval. Buff." = Alauda magna Linnaeus. 



Stum§lla magna (Linn^us). 



Range. — Eastern United States south to northern South America. 



a. Sturnella magna magna (Linnaeus). IKeadowlark. [501.] 



Alavda magna Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 167. (Carolina.) 



Range. — Eastern North America. Breeds in Transition and Upper Austral 

 zones from eastern Minnesota, southern Ontario, southern Quebec, and New 

 Brunswick south to northern Texas, Missouri, and North Carolina, and west 

 to western Iowa, eastern Kansas, and northwestern Texas; winters regularly 

 from the Potomac and Ohio valleys south to the Gulf States, and north 

 locally to the Great Lakes and southern Maine. 



b. SturneUa magna hodpesi Stone. Rio Grande Meadowlark. [501a.] 



Sturnella magna hoopesi Stone, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1897, 149. 

 (Brownsville, Texas.) 



Range. — Lower Sonoran Zone from north central Arizona, southern New 

 Mexico, and southern Texas south into Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, and 

 Tamaulipas. 



c. Sturnella magna argutula Bangs. Southern Meadowlark. [501c.] 



Sturnella magna argutula Bangs, Proc. N. Engl. Zool. Club, I, 1899, 20. 

 (Dunedin, Hillsboro Co., Florida.) 



