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to others of its allies in the art of construction. Captain Bendire, who found 

 this bird breeding near Tucson, Ariz., gives the following dimensions of a 

 nest : Inner diameter, three inches ; depth inside, same ; outside diameter, 

 from four to five and a half inches ; depth, about four. He says the eggs 

 are usually three, sometimes four, in number. They are of a pale bluish- 

 white ground, spotted with dark-lilac and uniber-brown about the larger end. 



ICTERUS BULLOGKI (Swains.). 



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Bullock's Oriole. 



Xanthornm biillockii, SWAINS., Syn. Mes. Birds, Taylor's Phil. Mag., i, 1827, 43G. 



Icterus bullockii, NEWB., P. R. R. Rep., vi, 1857, 87. BD., Birds N. A., 1858, 549. Id., 

 U. S. & Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, Birds, 20. XANTUS, Proc. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 192 (Fort Tejon, Cal.). HENEY, Proc. Acad. Nat, 

 Sci. Phila., 1859, 107 (New Mexico). COOP. & SUCKL., P. R. R. Rep., xii, 

 pt. ii, 1800, 209. HAYD., Trans. Am. Phil. Soc., xii, 1802, 170, COUES, Proc. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 18CG, 91 (Fort Whipple, Ariz.). COOPER, Birds Cal., 

 i, 1870, 273. COUES, Am. Nat., v, 1871, 678 (biography). ALLEN, Bui. 

 Mus. Corap. Zool., 1872, 178 (Ogden, Utah). COUES, Key N. A. Birds, 1872, 

 158, f. 100. SNOW, Birds Kan., 1872, 11. HOLD., Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. 

 Hist., 1872, 203. BD., BREW., & RIDG., N. A. Birds, ii, 1874, 199, pi. xxxiv, 

 figs. 3, 7. YARROW & HENSHAW, Rep. Orn. Specs., 1872, Wheeler's Exped., 

 1874, 19. YARROW, Rep. Oru. Specs., 1871, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 35. 

 HENSHAW, An. Lye. Nat. Hist, N. Y., xi, 1874, l.Id., An. List Birds 

 Utah, 1872, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 46. Id., Rep. Orn. Specs.. 1873, Wheel- 

 er's Exped., 1874, 65, 82. ALLEN, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat.. Hist., June, 1874, 

 10, 30. COUES, Birds Northwest, 1874, 195. 



Yphanteft biillockii, HEERM., P. R. 11. Rep., x, pt. ii, 1859, 52. 



Icteric ( Yphantes] bulloclcii, MERRIAM, U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1872, 685 (Utah ; Idaho). 



A single individual was seen at Provo, Utah, and one shortly afterward 

 in middle of August in the Walisatch Mountains. Probably migrates early, 



