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" Quite common," Mr. Peale states, " in all favorable localities 

 throughout Oregon, but particularly about the Columbia and the 

 Willamette Rivers." 



This species is frequently mentioned by Dr. Pickering. " It is an 

 inhabitant," he says, " of all open districts, not showing any especial 

 partiality for meadows or damp places ; which," he remarks very 

 justly, "is also the case with its near relative of the eastern coast, 

 notwithstanding that the latter is called the meadow lark." Noticed 

 by Dr. Pickering as occurring both in Oregon and in California, and at 

 various localities as very abundant. 



2. Sturnella militaris [Linn.). 



Stnrnus militaris, LiNN. Mantiss. 1771, p. 527. 



Buff. PL Enl. 113; Gilliss, Astr. Exp. Cliili, Birds, Plate XVI, fig. 2. 



Several distinct, though similar species have been confounded under 

 this name by naturalists, two of which are in the collection of the 

 Expedition. Both of these, and perhaps a third, are alluded to by 

 Mr. Peale, in the following observations : 



"This is the analogue of the Meadow-lark [Sturnella ludoviciana) , 

 of North America. Its manners, voice, and markings of the plumage, 

 bear a general resemblance to it, the colors making the principal dif- 

 ference ; the red of the southern bird being on those parts which are 

 yellow in the northern. 



" We surmise, however, that two species will be found, when but 

 one is now supposed to exist. They are found from the southern parts 

 of Brazil, to the Straits of Magellan, on the eastern coast, and on the 

 western; the farthest north that we observed them, was in Chili. All 

 the specimens obtained on the eastern coast, from the south of Brazil, 

 and at the Rio Negro, in Patagonia, are smaller, have a more slender 

 bill, and the tail more distinctly banded, than those obtained in Chili. 

 The difference is about as great between those inhabiting the eastern 

 and western coasts of South America, as that which has been shown 

 in their analogues, the meadow-larks of North America, which inha- 

 bit the eastern and western shores of that portion of this continent." 



The three species, designated by the Prince Bonaparte, in Conspectus 



