34 PICO-PASSERES. 



Genus ICTERUS*. 

 Brissoii, Oni. xi. p. .So (1760). 



Icterus jamacai. 



Oriolus Jamacai, (Traeliii, Syst. Nat. i. p. 391 (1788). 



Icterus jamacai (Gm.), Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xi. p. 333 (1886). 



The Brazilian Hang-nest. 



Ilah. Brazil. 

 128. Natural skeleton. From the Zoological Society. 



139. Natural skeleton. Presented hy Mr. J. Ahraliams. 



Icterus leucopteryx. 



Fsarocolius hucojjtenj.c, AVagler, Syst. Av. sp. 16, p. 172 (1827). 

 Icterus leucopteryx (Wagl.), Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mxis. xi. p. 387 



(1886). 



The Banana-biku. 



Ilab. Jamaica. 



130. Sterninn and sboulder-girdle of t'enuile (wanting left 

 coracoid and right and left scapula?). S. S. 1441 a. 



Presented hy tlie SrnitJisonian Institution. 



Family PLOCEID^. 

 Cranial deficiency large, with minute interorbital fenestra, not 

 as large as the o])tic foramen. 



Frontal zygoma small; squamosal large. 



Articular not prolonged backwards. 



Palatines with the posterior external angle slightly prolonged. 



Fig. 18. 



«/ if/ i-.:.p s:p 



Laleral view of skull of Pyromelana oryx. — o.f., optic foramen ; s<i.f., supra- 

 orbital fenestra ; /.;:r.^., frontal zygomatic process; s-z.^h, squamosal 

 zygomatic process. 



* For an account of the osteology of certain North- American species of 

 thi.'* genus, see Shufeklt, Journ. Anat. Phys. x.xii. pp. 309 -o40. 



