212 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. (VoL. XXXIX. 
Fourteen specimens, adults of both sexes and young including 
nestlings, were taken at Jucaro, Hospital, Callebonita, and Santa 
Fé in April, May and June. In birds from the Isle of Pines the 
yellow color of rump, thighs, and wing-coverts is a little paler 
than in Cuban examples, as is also the brownish yellow of under 
tail-coverts and anal region, with less of this color and rather 
more black than in Cuban specimens; but these differences are 
not very tangible and the Isle of Pines bird is not different 
enough to be formally separated as a subspecies. 
112. Agelaius assimilis Lembeye.! “Tori LA CIENAGA." 
— During the period spent near the Cienaga — April and 
May — all the birds of this species, that probably at some time 
of year scatter through the swamp to breed, were congregated in 
one flock that kept to some large trees at the edge of the 
Cienaga. The breeding season was not near at hand as the 
testes of the males were not enlarged, neither had it just passed 
as no very young birds were seen. 
The notes of this species resemble those of the common Red- 
wing (Agelaius pheniceus) but are lower and more wheezy, 
sounding, when a number are calling together, much like the 
chirping of insects. 
In the adult male the wing is colored like that of A. phaniceus 
floridanus, but younger males have the shoulder black, as in the 
adult female, except that some of the feathers are irregularly 
tipped and spotted with red and tawny, the amount of these 
colors varying much, from individuals with scarcely any to those 
that begin to show the characteristic markings of the adult. 
Of all the Icteride this is probably one of the rarest and 
most local species, being known only from the Zapata Swamp in 
Cuba and the Cienaga in the Isle of Pines. 
Seven specimens, both sexes, were taken, all at the edge of 
the Cienaga in April. 
113. Sturnella hippocrepis (Wagler). **SABANERO."— The 
Meadowlark is common in pastures and fields and in the edge of 
the pine woods, and is very tame and unsuspicious. 
Six specimens, adults of both sexes, were taken at Santa Fé, 
1 Ex Gundlach, MSS. 
