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Amazon Valley (Santarem, Para, Mexiana, etc., Brazil; Xeberos, 

 eastern Peru) and northward through Cayenne, British Guiana 

 (Roraima; Demerara), Trinidad, Venezuela, Colombia (Bogota), and 

 Isthmus of Panama (Lion Hill; Panama) to Chiriqui (Mina de Chorcha; 

 David); western Ecuador (Guayaquil). 



[Emberiza] militaris Linn^os, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 178 (based on Tardus 

 aler, pectore coccineo. Mus. Adol. Friderici, i, 1754, 18; "America"). 



[Tanagra] militaris LiNNiEus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766, 316. — Gmelin, Syst. 

 Nat., i, 1788, 895.— Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 431. 



Agelaius militaris Vieillot, Gal. uis., ii, 1834, 128, pi. 88. 



PslarocoUus] militaris Wagleb, Syst. Av., 1827, Psarocolius, sp. 11. 



Leistes militaris Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., xviii, 1866, 14 (monogr.; Bra- 

 zil; Guiana; Trinidad). — Lonnbbbg, K. Svensk. Vet.-Akad. Hand!., Bd. 22, 

 Afd., iv, no 1, 1896, 29 (crit. nomencl.). 



[Oriolu^] guianensis Linn^u„, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766, 162 (based on Icterus 

 guianensis Brisson, Orn., ii, 107). — Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 388.— 

 Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 179. 



[Trupialis} guianensis Bonaparte, Oonsp. Av., i, 1850, '430 (Guiana; Brazil). — 

 BuRMEiSTER, Syst. Ueb. Th. Bras, iii, 1856, 260. 



Pledotribes} guianensis Gabavis, Mus. Hein., i, Sept., 1851, 191 (Guiana). 



Leistes guianensis Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soo. Lond., 1857, 19 (Bogota, Colombia), 

 265 (Santarem, lower Amazon); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 138 (Cayenne; Trin- 

 idad; Bogota); Ibis, 1884, 21 (monogr.); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 

 348 (Mina de Chorcha, Veragua; Panama; Bogota; Guayaquil, w. Ecuador; 

 Trinidad; Roraima and Georgetown, British. Guiana; Cayenne; Mexiana I., 

 lower Amazon; Rio Madeira; Cayutaba, Brazil). — Taylor, Ibis., 1864, 84 

 (Trinidad). — Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1867, 573 (Pard, 

 lower Amazon), 750 (Xeberos, e. Peru); 1869, 252 (Venezuela); 1873, 267 

 Xeberos). — Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 176 (Veragua, Panama), 

 191 (Mina de Chorcha, Veragua); Ibis, 1885, 218 (British Guiana). — Finsch, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 576 (Trinidad).— Layard, Ibis, 1873, 381 

 (ParA). — Taczanowski, Orn. du P6rou, ii, 1884, 427. — Allen, Bull. Essex 

 Inst., viii, 1876, 79 (Santarem, lower Amazon). — Salvin and Godman, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1887, 458 (Mina de Chorcha; Lion Hill, Panama' 

 R. R.).— RiKERand Chapman, Auk, vii, 1890, 269 (Santarem).— Chapman, 

 Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., vi, 1894, 37 (Trinidad). 



[Leistesi guianensis Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 38. 



[Oriolus] americanus Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. i, 1788, 386 (based on Troupiale 

 de Cayenne BuHon, Hist. Nat. des Ois., 3, 218, etc.) .—Latham, Index Orn., i, 

 1790, 178. 



Icterus americanus TiiWMmcK,. Cat. Syst., 1807, 47. 



(?) Xanthornus ruhricollis Hahn, Vogel aus Asien, etc., pt.v, 1819, pi. 2. 



Leistes erythrothorax "Natterer" Pblzeln, Orn. Bras., iii, 1870, 197, 326 (Cuya- 

 taba, Brazil; coU. Vienna Mus.). 



[Leistes] erythrothora.r: Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr. 1873, 38. 



Leistes superdliaris (not Trupialis superciliaris Bonaparte) Forbes, Ibis, 1881, 339 

 (Cabo, n. e. Brazil; habits). 



Genus STURNELLA Vieillot. 



Stumella Vieillot, Analyse, 1816, 34. (Type, Alauda magna Linnaeus.) 

 Cirulus Brbdow, Wiegmann's Archiv. fiir Natiirg., drit. jahrg., erster band, 1837, 



413, in text. (Type, C. pratensis Bredow, = Stumella meridionalis Sclater. ) 

 Pedopsaris Gloger, Handbuch, 1842, 292. (Type, Alauda magna Linnaeus.) 



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