436 ICTERIDZ. 
1. Eucorystes wagleri. 
Cacicus wagleri, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 342, t. 85*; Cass. Pr. Ac. Phil. 1867, p. 72°. 
Ocyalus wagleri, Scl. P. Z. 8S. 1857, p. 228°; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 19°; P. Z. 8.1864, p. 353°; 
1870, p. 886°; 1879, p. 508, t. 43. f.37; Moore, P.Z.S. 1859, p.57°; Cass. Pr. Ac. 
Phil. 1860, p. 188°; Cab. J. f. Orn. 1861, p. 9°; Salv. Ibis, 1861, p. 141%; 1872, p. 317”; 
P. Z. 8. 1867, p. 142%; 1870, p. 190”; Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. vil. p.297; ix. p. 104”°; 
Frantz. J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 302*"; Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. i. p. 553°; Nutting, 
Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. v. p. 393”. 
Eucorystes wagleri, Scl. Ibis, 1883, p. 147”; Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xi. p. 312”. 
Saturate brunneo-castaneus, crista verticali elongata ejusdem coloris ; interscapulio, alis extus, abdomine medio 
et subalaribus chalybeo-nigris ; cauda flava, rectricibus utrinque extimis in pogonio externo et duabus 
mediis omnino, nigricantibus; rostro flavicante-fusco-griseo, pedibus nigris. -Long. tota 14:0, ale 8-1, 
caude 5:2 (rectr. med. 4°8), rostri a rictu 2°2, tarsi 1°5. 
Q mari similis, sed multo minor, interscapulio et abdomine medio magis castaneis. Long. tota 10:5, ale 5:6, 
caude 3:8 (rectr. med. 3°6), rostri a rictu 1:6, tarsi 1:2. (Descr. maris et femins ex Choctum, Guate- 
mala. Mus. nostr.) 
flab. Mexico (Sallé*), Cerra de la Defensa (Sumichrast 18); Guatemata, Cahabon 
(Skinner *), Lanquin (0. .S.™), Choctum (0. 8. & F. D. G.21); Hoypuras, Chilomo 
(Leyland ®), San Pedro (G. M. Whitely®); Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt 12); Costa 
Rica (v. Frantzius 1017), San José, Turrialba, San Carlos (Carmiol 6), La Palma 
(Nutting ©), Tucurriqui (Arcé?!); Panama, Chitra?4, Calobre!4, Santa Fé 18 
(Arcé), line of railway (M‘Leannan * 1), Truando, Nercua (Wood 2).—Cotoms1a? ; 
WESTERN Ecuapor. 
Eucorystes wagleri is one of the most characteristic species of a large portion of the 
hot forest-region of Southern Mexico and Central America, and thence southwards to 
Western Ecuador 71, and as far as Piura 21, within the confines of Western Peru, close 
to the limit of the forest-region of that part of the coast. It lives in colonies, often 
numbering several hundred individuals; these frequent some large isolated tree often 
_ by a road-side or near a village in some clearing. The upper branches of a tree thus 
situated are densely hung with their curious closely-woven purse-like nests, which are 
suspended to the ends of the boughs. Whether the nests are occupied all the year 
round we are not able to say, but the birds certainly frequent them when incubation — 
and the rearing the young is not in progress. A pine-tree near Lanquin, in Guatemala, 
was observed by Salvin, in March 1860, to be hung with nests about which the birds were 
busying themselves. In hopes of finding some eggs he had the tree cut down, but the 
nests were empty ''. Mr. Nutting speaks of a large colony frequenting a dead tree on 
the road from Punta Arenas to San José in Costa Rica; he observed the birds to get 
inside their nests and shake them violently, so as to produce a rattling sound. He 
was unable to ascertain the object of this curious performance . 
Salmon obtained eggs of this species at Pocune, in the valley of the Cauca, Colombia. 
They are pale greenish white with sepia spots of various sizes 7. 
Reverting to the range of this species it must be remarked that though common in 
