Classification

Original description

Citation:
  (Linnaeus, C 1758)

Reference:
   Systema Naturae ed. 10 1 p.167

Protonym:
  A[lauda] magna

Type locality:
  'in America, Africa' ; restricted to South Carolina by Amer. Ornith. Union, 1931, Check-list North Amer. Birds, ed. 4, p. 301.

Link:
  https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/10277#page/186/mode/1up

Avibase identifiers

Avibase ID:
  BF9F5E852F4050D4

Avibase ID:
  avibase-BF9F5E85

Short link:
  https://avibase.ca/BF9F5E85

Taxonomic Serial Number:
  TSN: 179035

Geographic range:

• Sturnella magna magna: southern Ontario eastward to Quebec and southward to northern Texas and northeastern Georgia
• Sturnella magna praticola: llanos of eastern Colombia to southern Venezuela and southwestern Guyana
• Sturnella magna monticola: tepuis of southern Venezuela (Mount Roraima)
• Sturnella magna argutula: southeastern Kansas and Oklahoma to eastern USA (Carolinas to Florida)
• Sturnella magna hoopesi: southern Texas (Eagle Pass) to northern Coahuila, Nuevo León, and northern Tamaulipas
• Sturnella magna auropectoralis: western Mexico from southern Sinaloa, coastal Nayarit, and southern Durango across the Trans-Volcanic Belt eastward to the upper Río Lerma, Estado de México; populations between México and the Sierra Madre Oriental, in Tlaxcala, Puebla, and adjacent areas, also may represent auropectoralis, but this requires confirmation
• Sturnella magna saundersi: southern Mexico (Oaxaca)
• Sturnella magna alticola: highlands of southern Mexico (Guerrero, southern Puebla, and Veracruz) to Costa Rica
• Sturnella magna mexicana: Caribbean slope of southeastern Mexico (Veracruz and Tabasco to Chiapas)
• Sturnella magna griscomi: southeastern Mexico (arid coastal of northern Yucatán Peninsula)
• Sturnella magna inexspectata: pine savanna of Belize, Petén of Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua
• Sturnella magna subulata: Pacific slope of Panama
• Sturnella magna meridionalis: eastern Andes of Colombia to Andes of northwestern Venezuela
• Sturnella magna paralios: northern Colombia and savannas of western Venezuela
• Sturnella magna quinta: Suriname and northeastern Amazonian Brazil
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