 Juveniles resemble the female, but are paler and lack the reddish tint to the underparts.This species is very closely related to the white-browed meadowlark, "S. superciliaris" which breeds further south, and was formerly considered to be subspecies of red-breasted meadowlark.The male white-browed is easily distinguished by his bright white supercilium, but females of the two species are almost identical.