466 ICTERIDZ. 
b. Sexus similes. 
6. Icterus wagleri. 
Psarocolius flavigaster, Wagl. Isis, 1829, p. 756* (nec Vieillot). 
Icterus wagleri, Scl. P. Z. 8. 1857, p. 7°; 1859, p. 381°; Ibis, 1883, p. 862*; Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 
xi. p. 872°; Baird, Mex. Bound. Surv. ii. Zool., Birds, p. 19, t.19. f. 2°; Scl. & Salv. 
Ibis, 1859, p. 207; Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 468°; Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. i. p. 552°; 
Finsch, Abh. nat. Ver. zu Bremen, 1870, p. 338°°; Lawr. Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. 
p. 279"; Salv. Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 263; Perez, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1886, p. 150™. 
Pendulinus wagleri, Cass. Pr. Ac. Phil. 1867, p. 55 ™*. 
Icterus dominicensis, Sw. Phil. Mag. new ser. i. p. 436 '°. 
Nigerrimus ; dorso postico tectricibus alarum minoribus subalaribus et ventre toto flavis, hoc aurantiaco tincto, 
crisso nigro; alis caudaque nigerrimis; rostro et pedibus nigris. Long. tota 8-4, ale 4-0, caudex 4:1, rostri 
a rictu 1-0, tarsi 0-9. (Descr. maris ex Duenas, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 
© mari similis. 
Av. juv. supra olivacea, interscapulii plumis medialiter fuscis; alis et cauda fuscis, illis pallide fusco limbatis ; 
subtus sordide flava, gula nigra. (Descr. exempl. ex Duefias, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 
Av. pull. subtus omnino flavicans. 
Hab. Mexico 1, Saltillo, Coahuila (Couch °14), Mazatlan (Grayson 11), Presidio (For- 
rer®), Guadalajara ° 4, Tepic 1! (Grayson), Tableland, Temiscaltepec (Bullock 1), 
Huehuetlan (Perez 1%), State of Vera Cruz, Cordova (Suwmichrast®), Villa Alta 
(Boucard *), Oaxaca (Boucard *, Fenochio®) ; Guatemata (Constancia 1”), Duefias 7, 
Calderas on the Volcan de Fuego ®, San Gerdnimo (0. S.). 
Icterus waglert ranges throughout Mexico and a large portion of Guatemala, being, 
according to our experience in Guatemala, an upland species frequenting the wooded 
mountains at elevations lying between 3000 and 6000 feet above the sea. In Mexico, 
Sumichrast states ® that it belongs to the hot region of the State of Vera Cruz in the 
district of Cordova, its vertical range reaching to about 3300 feet; but as the bird 
obtained by Sallé in this locality proved to be Icterus prosthemelas, Sumichrast’s bird 
may have been wrongly identified. Grayson observed it in the garden of Jauja in 
Tepic, where a few pairs resided"; he considered it a rare species in Western Mexico, 
but Forrer found it in the neighbourhood of Mazatlan. In the neighbourhood of 
Duefas in Guatemala, Icterus wagleri is one of the commonest birds of the genus in 
the shrubby woods clothing the hill-sides and in the second-growth woods on the 
Volcan de Fuego; here it breeds, making a shallow nest of interwoven grasses 5, 
In the ‘History of North-American Birds’ this species is noticed in a footnote 
(vol. ii. p. 188), and is there stated to be found in Costa Rica; but this extension of 
its range requires confirmation, as its name is absent from all the recognized lists of 
the birds of that country. 
7. Icterus prosthemelas. 
Xanthornus prosthemelas, Strickl. Contr. Orn. 1850, p. 120, t. 62). 
Icterus prosthemelas, Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 8017; Ibis, 1883, p. 863°; Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xi, 
