ICTERUS. ATT 
free. The number of eggs laid by one bird is two. There are, however, often eggs 
of the ‘ Tordito ’* in the nest.” 
At one time the San Gerdnimo bird was considered to belong to I. mentalis of Lesson ; 
but that name being now placed as a synonym of J. gularis, Cassin proposed the name 
I. sclateri for the present bird. The same species was described as J. formosus by 
Mr. Lawrence, from specimens obtained on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec by Sumichrast. 
We have examples of this form from South-western Mexico, and though we notice that 
they are slightly smaller and have rather more white on the wing, we do not on that 
account consider them to be sufficiently distinct to be called by separate names, and we 
follow Mr. Sclater in placing them all under J. sclateri. 
B. Dorsum medium guttatum. 
18. Icterus pustulatus. 
Psarocolius pustulatus, Wagl. Isis, 1829, p. 757°. 
Icterus pustulatus, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 426°; Scl. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 303°; Ibis, 1883, p. 373‘; 
Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xi. p. 386°; Cass. Pr. Ac. Phil. 1867, p. 48°; Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. 
Soc. N. H.i. p. 552"; Scl. & Salv. Hx. Orn. p. 47, t. 24°; Lawr. Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. 
p- 280°; Salv. Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 264°; P. Z. S. 1883, p. 422"'; Perez, Pr. U.S. Nat. 
Mus. 1886, p. 150”. 
Pendulinus californicus, Less. Rev. Zool. 1844, p. 436”. 
Aurantius rubro tinctus; interscapulio nigro guttato; alis nigris albo late marginatis; cauda nigra ad basin 
flavida, rectricibus quatuor utrinque externis cinereo-albo terminatis ; loris et gutture nigris; rostro nigro, 
mandibule basi et pedibus plumbeis. Long. tota 82, ale 3:9, caude 3:8, rostri a rictu 0°85, tarsi 0°9. 
(Descr. maris ex Puebla, Mexico, Mus. nostr.) 
Q mari similis, sed flavescentior ; interscapulio olivaceo nigro guttato; cauda olivacea. 
Hab. Norra America, Lower California > 18 ?—Muxtco 12 (Galeotti 1°), Mazatlan ° (Xan- 
tus °, Bishoff’®), Tepic (Grayson ®), Presidio (Lorrer®), Plains of Colima, Manzanilla 
Bay (Xantus°), Acapulco (Markham 11), hot region of Vera Cruz (Sumichrast"), 
Puebla®, La Parada %, Atlisco® (Boucard), Chietla, Ianhuiatlan (Perez 17), Tonala 
(Sumichrast ®). 
This species of Jcterus has a wide range throughout Mexico, and it is doubtful if it 
is found beyond the limits of that country, though we have a skin reputed to be from 
California, from which country Lesson’s type of P. californicus is said to have come. 
Though it occurs in the State of Vera Cruz as well as that of Puebla, it is probably 
more abundant on the western side of Mexico from Mazatlan to Tehuantepec. Grayson 
has the following note concerning it :— | 
‘“‘Of the numerous species of Orioles inhabiting the tropics, this one is the most 
familiar about the locality of Mazatlan, and indeed of all Western Mexico. I found it 
as far south as Tehuantepec, Guadalajara, Tepic, and other places, where I always met 
with it as a well-known and common species. Its long pensile nest, its sprightly little 
* Molothrus ceneus. 
