ICTERUS. 461 
Hyphantes baltimorensis, Scl. P. Z. 8. 1857, p. 205 *; 1859, p. 365”. 
Icterus baltimorensis, Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 20%; P. Z. S. 1867, p. 2797"; 1870, p. 836”; Salv. 
P. Z. S. 1870, p. 190”; Ibis, 1872, p. 317. 
Icterus galbula, Nutt. & Ridgw. Pr. U. 8. Nat. Mus. vi. p. 83922; Check-list N. Am. B. p. 252”; 
Perez, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1886, p. 149°. 
Aurantiacus, capite undique cum gula et dorso superiore nigris; alis nigris, tectricum majorum apicibus et 
remigum marginibus externis albis, tectricibus minoribus et campterio aurantiacis; subalaribus flavis ; 
remigum marginibus internis albis; cauda nigra, hujus basi et rectricum lateralium apicibus latis auran- 
tiacis ; rostro plumbeo, pedibus nigris. Long. tota 7-3, ale 3-8, caude 2°8, rostri a rictu 0°85, tarsi 0-8. 
(Descr. maris ex Volcan de Fuego, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 
2 supra griseo-fusca, capite summo et uropygio flavo tinctis; alis nigricantibus extus albo limbatis; cauda 
flavicante-fusca; subtus albida, pectore et crisso aurantio indutis. (Descr. femine ex Calobre, Panama. 
Mus. nostr.) 
do juv. femine similis, sed subtus magis aurantius et gula plus minusve nigro variegata. 
Hab. Norta America}, from the Atlantic coast to the high central plains.—MExico 
(Deppe*, Pease*"), Real del Monte, Tableland (Bullock ?), Valley of Mexico 
(White*), Teziutlan (Perez **), State of Vera Cruz (Sumichrast 11), Jalapa (Sallé 4, 
de Oca®>, Perez®*), San Andres Tuxtla (Sailé 24); British Honpuras (Blancaneauc), 
Cays between Belize and Omoa (Leyland!) ; Guaremata ( Velasquez*, Constancia 1°), 
Vera Paz (Skinner *°), Choctum, Cahabon, Coban, Volcan de Fuego, Escuintla, San 
Pedro Martyr (0. S. & F. D. G.7); Honpuras, San Pedro (G. M. Whitely ?°); 
Nicaragua, Blewfields River (Wickham ?"), Chontales (Belt *°), Omotepe I. (Nut- 
ting *'); Costa Rica (v. Hrantzius **), Bebedero, Nicoya (Arcé7), San José (Ellen- 
dorf ©, Carmiol 2), Irazu (Rogers); Panama, Chiriqui (Bridges ?°), David (Hicks °), 
Bugaba (Arcé"), Calobre (Arcé?°), Lion Hill (McLeannan®® 1), Paraiso Station 
(Hughes *).—Cotomsia }° ; Cusa 4. 
Throughout Mexico and Central America the Baltimore Oriole is a migratory species, 
though in the Rio-Grande valley, and probably some distance south of it, some birds 
remain to breed; in Southern Mexico and in the Tablelands it has frequently been 
noticed, but it does not extend to any portion of the Pacific coast, at least so far as 
Mexico is concerned. In Guatemala, however, we observed it on the low-lying lands 
bordering on the Pacific, but it was much less common than in Vera Paz, especially in 
the vicinity of Coban, where the native hunters obtained us many specimens in the 
winter season in the neighbourhood of the town. Its range southward hardly extends 
beyond the Isthmus of Panama; but we have specimens from the Sierra Nevada of Santa 
Martha, which is, so far as we know, its extreme limit. In Cuba Dr. Gundlach observed 
specimens in the neighbourhood of Havana and Cardenas, but none of them in adult 
plumage. In North America its range extends as far north as the fifty-fifth parallel of 
latitude; and it is common throughout the eastern States as far as the Mississippi 
river, and more sparingly to the Rocky Mountains; it is rare, too, in Florida. 
The nest is a pendulous, nearly cylindrical, pouch, hung from the extremity of some 
branch ; it is constructed of flexible plants, which are woven together so as to form a 
