456 ICTEEID^. 



but from nowhere on the eastern seaboard of Southern Mexico. In Cuba it has as yet 

 only been noticed in the market of Havana, where dead specimens have been bought. 



X. longipes builds its nest in marshy places, attaching it to the upright stalks of the 

 reeds, and making it of flexible grasses, the whole nest being of a lighter structure than 

 those of other Ageloei ; the eggs are of a pale greenish-white colour, profusely spotte d 

 with several shades of purple-brown. 



Subfam. III. STURNELLIN^. 



If ares plus minusve membrano obteetse; mesorMnmm altum, baud dilatatum, complanatum ; culmen fere 

 rectus ; alse secundariis mediis elongatis. 



STURNELLA. 



Sturnella, Vieillot, Anal. p. 34 (1816) ; Coues, Key N. Am. B. ed. 2, p. 405 ; Scl. Cat. B. Brit, 

 Mus. xi. p. 358. 



Mr. Sclater separates the South- American Sturnellinoe in which the culmen is slightly 

 rounded anteriorly and the prevailing colour red from Sturnella magna under Bona- 

 parte's generic name Trupialis, leaving S. magna the sole representative of Sturnella. 

 Its mottled upper plumage, yellow under surface, and conspicuous black pectoral 

 band render it a very distinct bird. The culmen is nearly straight, in some specimens 

 even concave where it is flattened over the nostrils, towards the apex it is slightly 

 depressed ; there is a distinct tumid operculum over the nostrils, which are situated 

 considerably in advance of the angle of the tomia ; the feet are strong, the hind toe and 

 claw being strongly developed ; the wings are short and much rounded, the first, second, 

 third, and fourth quills nearly equal and longest ; the median secondaries are much 

 elongated, and reach to the tip of the fifth quill when the wing is closed ; the tail- 

 feathers are rather narrow and acute at their tips. 



1. Sturnella magna. 



Alauda magna, Linn. S. N. i. p. 389 '. 



Sturnella magna, Sw. Phil. Mag. new ser. i. p. 436 ' ; Baird, Brew., & Ridgw. N. Am. B. ii. p. 174 ' ; 



Coues, B. N. W. p. 190 *j Scl. Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xi. p. 358 '. 

 Sturnus ludovicianus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 290 " ; Licht. Preis-Verz. Mex. Vog. p. 1 ''. 

 Sturnella ludoviciana, Sc\. P.Z. S. 1856, p. 142'; 1858, p. 358'; Cab. J. f. Orn. 1861, p. 10"; 



Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 104 " ; Cass. Pr. Ac. Phil. 1866, p. 23''; Ffantz. J. f. Orn. 



1869, p. 303"; Salv. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 191"; Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 268"; Ibis, 1885, 



p. 219 " ; Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, p. 330 " ; Salv. & Godm. Ibis, 1879, p. 201 " ; Boucard, P. Z. S. 



1883, p. 446". 

 Sturnus collaris, Wagl. Syst. Av. fol. 14, p. 6 " ; Isis, 1831, p. 527 °'. 

 Sturnus hippocrepis, Wagl. Isis, 1832, p. 281 ". 

 Sturnella hippocrepis, Bp. P. Z. S. 1837, p. 110 "; Cass. Pr. Ac. Phil. 1848, p. 90 '^; Scl. P. Z. S. 



1856, p. 301"; 1859, pp. 365'°, 381"; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 19''; 1860, p. 34"; 



Moore, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 58 " ; Gundl. Orn. Cub. p. 100 ". 



