470 ICTERID 2. 
Venezuela. Mr. Wyatt considered it a bird of the temperate region of the former 
country, its range in altitude extending to about 7000 feet, and Salmon met with it at 
Medellin and other-places in the Cauca valley at an elevation of about 6000 feet. The 
last-named collector obtained its eggs, which are pale grey blotched and streaked with 
dark brown and grey. | 
A good deal of variation is shown in specimens of this species, both as regards size 
and the tint of the yellow portion of the plumage. The bird we have described from 
the Volcan de Fuego is rather dark; we have a much paler example from Tactic, but 
the palest of all is from the island of Ruatan. In spite of these differences, we believe 
they all belong to one and the same species. We never obtained the eggs of this bird 
in Guatemala; but we have a young bird shot early in August in the Volcan de 
Fuego, at an elevation of 6000 feet, which is just commencing to change its first 
plumage for its adult dress. 
e’. Caude rectrices externe flave. 
11. Icterus mesomelas. 
Psarocolius mesomelas, Wag). Isis, 1829, p. 755’. 
Icterus mesomelas, Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 301°; 1860, p. 277°; Ibis, 1883, p. 8367*; Cat. B. Brit. 
Mus. xi. p. 378°; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1860, p. 34°; P. Z. S. 1864, p. 354"; 1867, p. 279°; 
1870, p. 837°; 1879, p.509”°; Moore, P. Z. 8.1859, p. 58*'; Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. 
N. H.i. p. 553”; Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. vii. p. 297°; viii. p. 180"; Bull. U. 8. Nat. Mus. 
no. 4, p. 23"; Cass. Pr. Ac. Phil. 1867, p.51*°; Nutt. & Ridgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. vi. 
p. 402°"; Boucard, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 445°; Tacz. Orn. Pér. ii. p. 417”. 
Icterus atrogularis, Less. Cent. Zool. p. 73, t. 22”. 
Oriolus musicus, Cabot, Pr. Bost. Soc. N. H.i. p. 155”. 
Icterus salvini, Cass. Pr. Ac. Phil. 1867, p. 51”; Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. ix. p. 104”; Frantz. J. f. 
Orn. 1869, p. 302”. 
Citrinus, capite summo sericeo-aurantio; loris, oculorum ambitu et gutture toto nigris; alis nigris, tectricibus 
alarum minoribus et subalaribus flavis ; secundariis mediis plerumque albo stricte limbatis ; caude rectricibus 
utrinque tribus externis plus quam dimidio apicali gradatim flavis, ad basin et tectricibus reliquis nigris ; 
rostro nigro, mandibul basin et pedibus plumbeis. Long. tota 8:5, ale 3°5, caude 4:3, rostri a rictu 0-9, 
tarsi 1-1. (Descr. exempl. ex Choctum, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 
© mari similis. 
Hab. Mexico}, Cordova (Sallé?), hot country of Vera Cruz (Sumichrast 12), Orizaba 5, 
Guichicovi (Swmichrast 1°), Yucatan (Cabot *"), Calotmul (Gawmer 18); Britise 
Honpuras, Corosal (foe °), Belize (Blancaneaux*®); Honpuras, Omoa (Leyland 1), 
San Pedro (G. M. Whitely®); GuatemaLa, Coban (0. 8.%), Choctum (0. 8. & 
Ff. D. G°); Nicaracua, Blewfields River (Wickham ®), Greytown (Holland 14), 
~~ Los Sabalos (Nutting 1"); Costa Rica, Valza (Carmiol®), San Carlos, Turrialba 
(v. Frantzius*4, Carmiol**); Panama, Lion Hill (M‘Leannan™ 8), Chepo (Arcé5). 
—Co.tomsBia!®; Ecuapor?; Perv). 
Though described from Mexican specimens, Jcterus mesomelas appears to be restricted 
