Largest species, with grayish tints, and minimum amount of black. Smallest feet _neglecta_. [31] _Sturnella mexicana_, SCLATER, Ibis, 1861, 179. [32] _Sturnella meridionalis_, SCLATER, Ibis, 1861, 179. [33] _Sturnella hippocrepis_, WAGLER, Ibis, 1832, 281.—LAWR. Ann. N. Y. Lyc. 1860. Sturnella magna, SWAINSON. MEADOW LARK; OLD FIELD LARK. _Alauda magna_, LINN. Syst. Nat. I, 1758, 167, ed. 10 (based on _Alauda magna_, CATESBY, tab. 33).—IB., (12th ed.,) 1766, 289.—GM. I, 1788, 801.—WILSON, Am. Orn. III, 1811, 20, pl. xix.—DOUGHTY, Cab. I, 1830, 85, pl. v. _Sturnella magna_, SWAINSON, Phil. Mag. I, 1827, 436.—BAIRD, Birds N. Am. 1858, 535.—SAMUELS, 343. _Sturnus ludovicianus_, LINNÆUS, Syst. Nat. I, 1766, 290.—GM. I, 802.—LATH. Ind. I, 1790, 323.—BON. Obs. Wils. 1825, 130.—LICHT. Verz. 1823, No. 165.—AUD. Orn. Biog. II, 1834, 216; V, 1839, 492, pl. cxxxvi. _Sturnella ludoviciana_, SWAINSON, F. Bor.-Am. II, 1831, 282.—NUTTALL, Man. I, 1832, 147.—BON. List, 1838.—IB. Conspectus, 1850, 429.—AUD. Syn. 1839, 148.—IB. Birds Am. IV, 1842, 70, pl. ccxxiii.—CABANIS, Mus. Hein. 1851, 192.—ALLEN, B. E. Fla. 288. _Sturnella collaris_, VIEILL. Analyse, 1816.—IB. Galerie des Ois. I, 1824, 134, pl. xc. _Sturnus collaris_, WAGLER, Syst. Av. 1827, 1.—IB. Isis, 1831, 527. “_Cacicus alaudarius_, DAUDIN,” CABANIS. SP. CHAR. The feathers above dark brown, margined with brownish-white, and with a terminal blotch of pale reddish-brown. Exposed portions of wings and tail with dark brown bars, which on the middle tail-feathers are confluent along the shaft. Beneath yellow, with a black pectoral crescent, the yellow not extending on the side of the maxilla; sides, crissum, and tibiæ pale reddish-brown, streaked with blackish. A light median and superciliary stripe, the latter yellow anterior to the eye; a black line behind. _Female_ smaller and duller. _Young_ with pectoral crescent replaced by streaks; the yellow of under surface replaced more or less by ochraceous or pale fulvous. Length, 10.60; wing, 5.00; tail, 3.70; bill above, 1.35. HAB. Eastern United States to the high Central Plains, north to Southern British Provinces. England (SCLATER, Ibis, III, 176). HABITS. The eastern form of the Meadow Lark is found in all the eastern portions of the United States, from Florida to Texas at the south, and from Nova Scotia to the Missouri at the north. Richardson met with it on the Saskatchewan, where it arrives about the first of May. In a large portion of the United States it is resident, or only partially migratory.