SlRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



36g 



specimen), 66; culmen, from base, 29.2-31.8 (30.6); tarsus, 35.8-38.6 

 (37.1); middle toe, 25.4-28.5 (26.9).' 



Southern portion of Mexican pl^tteau, in States of Vera Cruz, 

 Puebla, Oaxaca (northern and western), Guanajuato, Durango, Jalisco, 

 etc., and Territory of Tepic; also, highlands of southeastern Oaxaca, 

 Chiapas, and Guatemala.^ 



Stuniella magna (not Alauda magna Linnaeus) Swainson, Philos. Mag., n. s., i, 



1827, 436 (Real del Monte, Hidalgo).— Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 



1886, 358, part. 

 St[umeUa] hippocrepis {notStumw hippocrepis Wagler) Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 



1850, 429, part (Mexico). 

 Stumella hippocrepw Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 301 (Cordova, Vera 



Cruz); 1859, 365 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz), 381 (Oaxaca).— Sclater and Salvin, 



Ibis, 1859, 19 (Duenas, Guatemala).— Salvin and Sclater, Ibis, 1860, 34 



(Duenas). 

 Stumella mexicanaSchATER, Ibis, 1st ser., iii, Apr., 1861, 179(Jalapa, Cordova, and 



Orizaba, Vera Cruz; coll P. L. Sclater?) ; Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 139 (Jalapa).— 



Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 24 (Mexico; Guatemala). 

 [Stumella magna'] var. m^xicana Baird, Brewer, aijd Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 



Birds, ii, 1874, 172, part. 

 Stumella magna var. mexicana Lawrence, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 1876, 24 



(Barrio and Santa Efigenia, Oaxaca). 

 \_Sturnella magna] d. mexicana CouES, Birds N. W., 1874, 190, part (synonymy). 

 Stumella ludoviciana mexicana SchATmi, Ibis, Jan., 1884, 26, part. 

 Stumella magna mexicana American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, 



no. 501a, part. — Ferrari-Perez, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 152 (Llano 



de Chapulco and Chietla, Puebla). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., 



Aves, i, 1887, 456, part (descr. eggs). 

 [Stumella magna.] c. Subsp. mexicana Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 



360, in list of specimens, part (localities in Mexico and Guatemala). 

 [Stumella] ludcmciana (not Stumus ludovieianus Linnaeus) Sclater and Salvin, 



Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 38, part. 

 Stumella ludovidana. Boucabd, Liste Ois. Guat., 1878, 36. 

 Stum[ella] ? Scmichrast, Mem. Best. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 552, part (plateau 



region, Vera Cruz). 

 (?) SturneUa magna alticola Nelson, Auk, xvii, July, 1900, 266 (Ocuilapa, Chiapas; 



coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



^ With the same material before me I can not satisfactorily make out Mr. Nelson's 

 S. m. alticola (Auk, xvii, July, 1900, 266) as a sufficiently well-characterized subspe- 

 cies. Mr. Nelson compares it primarily with S. m. magna, but I fail to understand 

 his reason for doing so, its very close relationship to S- m. mexicana being obvious. 

 The specimens from the highlands of Guatemala and Chiapas are not, however, in 

 satisfactory plumage, and possibly I may be in error in uniting the supposed form to 

 S. m. mexicana. 



