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fabric of great strength; sometimes the nest is made of Til/andsia. The eggs are 
white, variously marked and marbled with spots and blotches, and with wavy lines of 
purplish brown. — 
2. Icterus bullocki. 
Xanthornus bullockii, Sw. Phil. Mag. new ser. i. p. 436°. 
Icterus bullocki, Scl. & Salv. P. Z. 8. 1869, p. 862°; Ex. Orn. p. 188°; Baird, Brew., & Ridgw. N. 
Am. B. ii. p. 199*; Coues, B. N. W. p. 195°; Scl. Ibis, 1883, p. 854°; Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 
xi. p. 865"; Perez, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1886, p. 150°. 
Hyphantes bullocki, Cass. Pr. Ac. Phil. 1867, p. 62°. 
Yphantes bullockii, Dugés, La Nat. i. p. 139”. 
Aurantiaco-flavus, pileo, dorso superiore, loris et linea per oculos ducta cum gula nigris ; alis nigris, tectricibus 
minoribus et mediis et remigum marginibus externis albis, campterio alari et subalaribus flavis, remigum 
marginibus internis albicantibus; cauda flava, rectricibus quatuor mediis preter basin nigris, ceteris plus 
minusve nigro terminatis ; rostro obscure plumbeo, pedibus nigris. Long. tota 6:8, ale 3-9, caude 3-2, 
rostri a rictu 0°8, tarsi 0-9. (Descr. exempl. ex Mexico. Mus. nostr.) 
Q fusca, capite summo et cauda flavicante-olivaceis ; subtus sordide alba; superciliis, pectore et crisso flavidis. 
(Descr. feming ex California. Mus. Brit.) 
Hab. Western Nortu America.—Mexico® (Dugés®), Tableland (Bullock +), Valley of 
Mexico (le Strange), Huehuetlan (Perez §). 
Though quite distinct in its markings from the Baltimore Oriole, Jcterus bullocki 
seems to take the place of that species in Western America from the high central plains 
to the Pacific Ocean; it extends northward to British Columbia, and is found as far 
south as Central and Southern Mexico. It is certainly a migratory species in the 
northern portion of its range, and, indeed, as far south as the Mexican frontier; but we 
are unable to say whether it breeds in Mexico itself or only uses that country as winter- 
quarters. Doctor Coues saw much of this species during his visits to Arizona and New 
Mexico, and has given an account of its habits, with special reference to its nesting >. 
The nest he describes as a carefully woven structure, from six to nine inches long, with 
the hole sometimes at the top, sometimes in the side. The materials used vary consi- 
derably—sometimes of vegetable fibre, sometimes of pine-needles. The egg is rather 
elongated, being much pointed at the smaller end; in colour it is pale bluish white, and 
everywhere overrun with rather fine lines of blackish brown. 
8. Icterus abeillei. 
Xanthornus abeillei, Less. Rev. Zool. 1839, p. 1017. 
Icterus abeillii, Scl. P. Z. 8. 1860, p. 252°; 1864, p.175°; Ibis, 1883, p. 355‘; Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 
xi. p. 366°; Scl. & Salv. P. Z.S. 1869, p. 362°; Ex. Orn. p. 187, t. 947; Dugés, La Nat. 
i. p. 189°; Salv. Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 262°. 
Hyphantes abeillet, Cass. Pr. Ac. Phil. 1867, p. 62”. 
Icterus bullockit, var. abeillei, Baird, Brew., & Ridgw. N. Am. B. ii. p. 184". 
Psurocolius costototl, Wagl. Isis, 1829, p. 757 (?)*. 
