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Cruz; and Sumichrast includes it amongst the birds of the temperate and alpine regions 
of the latter State. It breeds, he says, in the temperate region, and is found as high as 
between 5000 and 6000 feet above the sea in the neighbourhood of Orizaba, and at 
even higher altitudes in the plateau. 
Mr. Scott has recently given a good account of his observations on the species in the 
Santa Catalina Mountains in Arizona, where he found it breeding, and where he 
obtained several nests. These were usually placed in a species of Yucca (Yucca brac- 
cata), and carefully hidden under the half-dead and dry leaves that hung down close to 
the stem of the plant. He describes the nest as sewn to the leaves and as partly 
pendent. The nests are composed of fibre of the Yucca and fine grasses, and lined with 
finer grass and threads of cotton waste. The eggs, he says, are bluish white, with 
chocolate-brown and lighter lilac-brown spots, chiefly at the larger end. 
ce. Cauda nigra albo stricte terminata. 
5. Icterus spurius. ” 
Oriolus spurius, Linn. 8. N. i. p. 1627. 
Icterus spurius, Bp. P. Z. 8. 1837, p. 116°; Scl. P. Z. 8. 1859, p. 380°; Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xi. 
p. 866°; Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. vii. p. 331°; vil. p.176°; Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1864, 
p- 353"; 1870, p. 837°; Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. i. p. 553°; Baird, Brew., & 
Ridgw. N. Am. B. ii. p. 190"; Coues, B. N. W. p. 192"; Gundl. Orn. Cub. p. 96”; Salyv. 
Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 262; Nutt. & Ridgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. vi. p. 392™. 
Xanthornus spurius, Cab. J. f. Orn. 1861, p. 8”; Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. ix. p. 104°; Frantz. J. 
f. Orn. 1869, p. 803”. 
Pendulinus spurius, Cass. Pr. Ac. Phil. 1867, p. 61”. 
Xanthornus affinis, Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. v. p. 113”; Cass. Pr. Ac. Phil. 1860, p. 140°. 
Icterus affinis, Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 20”; Ibis, 1860, p. 84°"; Scl. P. Z. S. 1864, p.175 *. 
Pendulinus affinis, Cass. Pr. Ac. Phil. 1867, p. 61™. 
Bananivorus affinis, Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 801”; 1859, p. 365°. 
Icterus spurius, var. affinis, Lawr. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 24°7; Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. 
li. p. 279”. 
Oriolus varius, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 890”. 
Icterus varws, juv., Licht. Preis-Verz. mex. Vog. p.1; J. f. Orn. 1863, p. 56%. 
_ Supra niger, tectricibus alarum minoribus et dorso postico castaneis; alis nigris, remigibus et tectricibus mediis 
anguste sordide albo limbatis ; subtus castaneus, gutture toto nigro ; subalaribus ventre concoloribus ; cauda 
nigra, rectricum apicibus anguste albido terminatis; rostro et pedibus nigris. Long. tota 6-3, ale 3-0, 
caudee 2°75, rostri a rictu 0-7, tarsi 0-8. (Descr. maris ex Rio de la Pasion, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 
® supra olivacea-fusca, superciliis indistinctis, corpore subtus flavicantibus, alis extus sordide albo limbatis, 
(Descr. feminze ex Coban, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 
3 ju. femine similis, sed gula nigra. 
Hab. Nortu America, from the Atlantic to the high central plains— Mzxico * (Deppe®®, 
Galeotti '*), Presidio (Forrer +), Mazatlan (Grayson °°), plains of Colima (Xantus ?8), 
valley of Mexico (White*3), State of Vera Cruz (Sumichrast ®), Cordova (Sallé%5), 
