YELLOW-HEADED TROOPIAL. 177 



Indian corn. Their notes are said to be similar to those 

 of the Red-winged Troopial, but more agreeable, though 

 Waterton bluntly, and perhaps truly, asserts, that their 

 attempts at song, compared with the true Troopial, are 

 " not worth attending to." The very beautiful, accurate, 

 and animated figures of the two sexes of this species, 

 given by Prince C. Bonaparte, leave nothing more to be 

 desired in graphical execution. 



The male of this species is 10^ inches in length (according to 

 Prince Bonaparte, but the figure purporting to be the size of life is 

 only 9^.) The bill dark horn-color. Feet black. The irids dark 

 brown. The head, neck, and breast are brilliant orange-yellow, more 

 vivid and silky on the head. The feathers round the base of the bill, 

 chin, and a wide stripe passing through the eye, are black. The rest 

 of the feathers glossy black, tinged with brownish. Some of the 

 exterior wing-coverts are white with black tips, constituting 2 white 

 spots on the wing. The 1st, 2d, and 3d primaries are longest and 

 equal. Tail 4 inches long, slightly rounded. — The female Scinches 

 long (in the figure about the same size as the male, 9|), dark brown, 

 the margin of the feathers a shade lighter. The chin and throat whit- 

 ish. On the breast a large round patch of yellow. On the lower 

 part of the breast the feathers are skirted with white. — The young 

 are very similar to the female. 



Species related to the Bunting. (Emberizoides.) 



In these the bill is straight, short, thick, conic, and not much point- 

 ed. The sinus at the base of the bill sharp and shallow. 



Note, These are somewhat allied to the Finches ; yet still more 

 so to the birds of the preceding section. 



