of the American Meadow-Starling in England . 179 
North America, extending over the whole Atlantic watershed of 
the continent, to the high central plains. With this form, as 
might have been expected, the specimen killed in England 
agrees, and it is the bird noticed in the various references given 
in the note above. 
2. Sturnella neglect a y And. (Baird, B. N. Amer. p. 537), re¬ 
places the Eastern form in Western America from the high cen¬ 
tral plains to the Pacific. Prof. Baird confesses that this bird, 
though decidedly paler in colouring, is so closely related to S. 
ludoviciana as to render it very difficult to distinguish the skins; 
but all observers of the two living birds declare that there is a 
remarkable difference in their notes. 
3. Sturnella hippocrepis is a name founded by Wagler (‘Isis/ 
1832, p. 281) upon examples of the Sturnella brought from 
Cuba. I have no very reliable Cuban specimens for comparison ; 
but Mr. Lawrence, in “ Notes on Cuban Birds,” read before the 
Lyceum of Natural History of New York, May 21st, 1860, has 
pointed out its differences from Sturnella ludoviciana , which con¬ 
sist chiefly in its narrow pectoral band and smaller size. 
4. Sturnella mexicana is the name I propose to apply to the 
Southern Mexican bird, which has the throat-band always quite 
narrow, and is in dimensions invariably much inferior to Northern 
specimens. M. de Oca's birds collected at Jalapa, M. Salle's at 
Cordova (P. Z. S. 1855, p. 301), and M. Botteri's from Orizaba, 
are all referable to this variety, which I have hitherto called “ S. 
hippocrepis ?'' Mr. Salvin's specimens from Guatemala (cf.‘ Ibis/ 
1859, p. 19) also belong here. 
5. Sturnella meridionalis may be the term applied to the New 
Granadian and Venezuelan variety of this widely diffused bird. 
It agrees with S. mexicana in the form of the neck-gorget, but 
is nearly of the size of the S . ludoviciana } and has the bill even 
longer. 
In concluding this summary notice of the geographical range 
of Sturnella ludoviciana and its allies, I may remark that there 
seems to be so much variation in specimens of this bird brought 
even from the same districts, that I cannot deny that much fuller 
evidence is necessary before we can consider these different forms 
(though eminently worthy of study and of record) as entitled to 
