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AGELAUS, 
Agelaius, Vieillot, Anal. p. 33 (1816). 
Ageleus, Scl. Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xi. p. 339. 
Only two of the fourteen species now included in Ageleus occur within our 
region, and these both belong to the section having the bend of the wing brightly 
coloured, which, with the exception of those having this portion of the wing yellow, 
and which are really aberrant, all belong to the continent of America north of 
Panama or to the island of Cuba. 
A. pheniceus and A. gubernator are both well-known North-American birds; the 
former reaches to Costa Rica in its southern range, the latter does not pass beyond 
the limits of Mexico. The culmen of the bill of A. pheniceus is nearly straight, the 
mesorhinium being slightly flattened ; the nostril is at the extremity of the nasal fossa, 
and is slightly overhung along the upper edge by a flat membrane; the tomia of the 
maxilla is slightly angulated ; the tarsi are moderately long; the wing is rather short 
and rounded, the second, third, and fourth quills are equal and longest, and the fifth 
slightly exceeds the first; the tail is rounded, the rectrices are rounded and not acute 
at their ends. 
1. Agelzus pheniceus. 
Oriolus pheniceus, Linn. 8. N. i. p. 161°. 
Agelaus pheniceus, Sw. Phil. Mag. new ser. i. p. 436°. 
Ageleus pheniceus, Scl. P. Z. S. 1857, p. 205°; 1859, p. 3814; Ibis, 1884, p. 10°; Cat. B. Brit. 
Mus. xi. p. 840°; Baird, Mex. Bound. Surv. ii. Zool., Birds, p. 18"; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 
1859, p. 19°; Moore, P. Z. 8S. 1859, p. 58°; Cass. Pr. Ac. Phil. 1866, p.10°°; Lawr. Ann. 
Lyc. N. Y. ix. p.104"; Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 281%; Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. 
N. H.i. p. 553”; Frantz. J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 303; Baird, Brew., & Ridgw. N. Am. B. ii. 
p- 159”; Coues, B. N. W. p. 186"; Salv. Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 265%; Nutting, Pr. U.S. 
Nat. Mus. v. p. 892°; Boucard, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 446”; Perez, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1886, 
p. 151”. 
Psarocolius pheniceus, Wag). Isis, 1831, p. 527”. 
- Sericeo-niger ; alarum tectricibus minoribus coccineis, mediis ochraceis ; rostro nigro, pedibus obscure corylinis, 
Long. tota 9°0, ale 5:0, caude 3-7, rostri a rictu 0°95, tarsi 1:3. 
@ nigricans, albido et brunneo striata, superciliis albidis; subtus albida nigro guttata, capitis lateribus et 
gutture toto rubido dilute indutis, alarum rectricibus minoribus saturate rufo lavatis. Long. tota 7-3, 
ale 3-9, caude 3-0, rostri a rictu 0°8, tarsi 1:05. (Descr. maris et feminz ex Duefas, Guatemala. Mus, 
nostr.) 
Hab. Nortu America generally, from the Great Slave Lake southwards.—MExico ”°, 
Nuevo Leon (Couch), Saltillo and Espia (Kennerly’), Mazatlan (Grayson !”), Real 
del Monte and sides of the Cordillera (Bullock?), Tlacotalpam (Sallé*), Orizaba 
(Sumichrast *), Chietla (Perez ®°), Oaxaca (Boucard*), Northern Yucatan (Gau- 
mer 1°), Cozumel I. (Gaumer); Britise Honpuras, Belize (Leyland®, Blanca- 
