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Stumella negleda, Aud. B. N. Am. vii. p. 339, t. 489"; Baird, Mex. Bound. Surv. ii,, Zool, 



Birds, p. 19 ". 

 Stumella magna, var. neglecta, Lawr. Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 281 ". 

 Stumella mexicana, Scl. Ibis, 1861, p. 179'=; P. Z. S. 1864, p. 175 '°; Cass. Pr. Ac. PhU. 1866, 



p. 34"; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. viii. p. 176''. 

 Stumella magna, var. mexicana, Lawr. Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 24'°. 

 Stumella magna mexicana, Perez, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1886, p. 152*°. 

 Stumella ?, Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. i. p. 552". 



Nigra ; fascescente-cervina, variegata et transfasciolata ; superciliis posticis et linea verticaU pure cervinis, super- 

 ciliis anticis et corpore medio subtus flavis ; genis griseo-albidis, linea postoculari et torque pectorali nigris ; 

 hypoohondriis et crisso pallide cervinis nigro guttatis ; cauda medialiter nigra, rectricibus quatuor inter- 

 mediis extrorsum grisescentibus, hoc colore introrsum profunde serrato, rectricibus utrinque tribus externis 

 fere albis ; rostro corneo, pedibus coryHnis. Long, tota 9, alae 4*5, caudse 3, rostri a rictu 1"2, tarsi 1'6. 

 (Descr. feminse ex Duenas, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 

 S feminae similis. 



Hab. North Ameeica, from Southern Canada southwards. — Mexico ^^ ^^ {Salle ^% 

 Pease ^^, Beppe''), Coahuila, Espia {Kennerly ^% Mazatlan [Orayson ^^), Ciudadin 

 Durango {Forrer % Real del Monte [Bullock ^), Valley of Mexico ( White ^^), Llano 

 de Chapulco, Chietla {Perez ^^), State of Vera Cruz {Sumichrast ^^), Jalapa {de- 

 Oca ^% Oaxaca {Boucard 2'^), Barrio, Santa Efigenia {Sumichrast ^^) ; Rio Lagartos 

 {Gaumer^^); British Honduras, Belize {Leyland^°); Gv atemal a {Constancia^% 

 pine-ridges of Poctun {0. S.^), Duenas {O.SJ^^^); Honduras, Comayagua 

 {Taylor^); Costa Rica {v. Frantzius ^o ^% San Jose {Carmiol^^), Cartago {Arce^^ 

 Rogers ^) ; Panama, David {Hicks ^% Volcan de Chiriqui {Bridges «), Volcan de 

 Chiriqui, Castillo, Calovevora {Arce i4)._South America, Colombia i^ Venezuela \ 

 Guiana ^^ ; Cuba ^2 3i. 



Pew birds have been subjected to more varied treatment as to its name than this 

 species. At one time Mr. Sclater considered it to be divisible into five separate forms, 

 or local races, namely Stumella ludoviciana of the Eastern States, extending westward 

 to the high central plains, S. neglecta of the Western States, S. mexicana of Mexico and 

 Central America, *S'. hippocrepis of Cuba, and S. meridionalis of Colombia, Venezuela, and 

 Guiana; this was in 1861 ^s. In 1884 he treated aU these birds with trinomials after 

 the method of American authors ; and again in 1886 5 he placed them all- under 

 Stumella magna, using the other names as indicating subspecies, and in his remarks 

 he says that so much individual variation occurs that it would be very difficult, if not 

 impossible, in some cases, to refer specimens to their correct subspecies without pre- 

 vious knowledge of their locality. In this we quite agree, but as geographical con- 

 siderations alone cannot be used as a specific character we do not see our way to 

 recognize any division. The differences after all are very trivial, and consist to a great 

 extent in difterences of size, a slight difference in the extent of the yellow on the throat, 

 and differences in the width of the black pectoral band ; all of these are subject to 

 considerable variation, and the increase of material for comparison can hardly fail to 



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