]8g NORTH AMKRK'AX BIKDri. 



Icterus parisorum, Boxap. 



SCOTT'S ORIOLE. 



Idertis parisorum, ("Box. Acad. Bouon. 1S36.")— Bp. Pr. Zoiil. Soc. V, 1837, 109.— 

 Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, 54-1, pi. Ivii, f. 1 ; Mex. B. II, Birds, 19, \A. xi.\, f. 1. 

 — Cassin, Pr. 1867, 54. — Coupek, Orn. Cal. I, 1870, 276. Xanllwrnm parusorum, 

 Ib. Conspectus, 1850, 434. Merits mclanochrysiira, Lessos, Rev. Zobl. 1839, 105. — 

 Icterus scutti, Couch, Pr. A. N. .Sc. I'liil. VI I, April, 1854, 66 (Coahuila). 



Sp. Char. Bill attenuated; not much dccurvcd ; tail moderately graduated. Head 

 and neck all round, breast, interscapular region, wings, and tail, black. Under parts 

 generally, hinder part of back to the tail, middle and lesser npper, and whole of lower 

 wing-coverts, and base of the tail-feathers, gamboge-yellow ; a band across the ends of 

 the greater coverts, with the edges of the inner secondaries and tertiaries, white. Length, 

 8.25; extent, 11.7-5; wing, 4.00; tail, 3.75; tarsus, .95. 



Female. Olivaceous above, the back with obsolete dusky streaks ; nunp and under 

 parts yellowish, clouded with gray. Tail brownish-olive on upper surface, more yellow 

 beneath ; wings with two white bands. 



Had. Valley of the Rio Grande ; south to Guatemala. In Texas, found on the Pecos. 

 Cape St. Lucas. Oaxaca, winter (ScL. 1858, 303) ; Orizaba (Scl. 18G0, 251) ; Vera Cruz, 

 temp, and alpine (Sum. M. B. S. I, 553). 



The bill i.s slender and attenuated, very little decnrved, niucli le.ss so than 

 in /. cucullatus, slenderer and a little nuire deciirved than in /. hdltimore. 

 The tail is moderately graduated, the outer feather .4.5 of an inch le.s.s than 

 the middle. 



In this species the black feathers of the neck, except below, have a sub- 

 terminal bar of yellow ; elsewliere it is wanting. The black of tlie breast 

 conies a little posterior to the anterior extremity of the folded wing. The 

 posterior feathers in the yellow patch on the shoulders are tinged with white. 

 The white in the bar across the ends of the greater coverts is confined 

 mainly to the terminal quarter of an inch of the outer web. In the full 

 ])luniage, there is only a faint trace of white on the edges of the primaries. 

 The yellow of the base of the tail only extends on the middle feather as far 

 as the end of the upper tail-coverts ; on the three outer, it reaches to within 

 an inch and a quarter of the end of the tail. 



An immature male has the yellow more tinged with green, the black feath- 

 ers of the head and back olivaceous with a black spot. 



Specimens vary much iu size ; the more nortliern being the larger. 



Icterus ivaglcri^ is an allied species Inund just soutli of the Uio Grande 

 by Lieutenant Couch, but not yet detected within our limits. 



1 Icicrm wagUri, Sclater, Pr. Zool. Soc. 1857, 7. — Bairp, Birds N. Am. 1858, 545, pi. 

 Ivii, f. 2. — IB. Mex. B. II, Birds, 19, pi. xL\, f. 2. — Cass. Pr. 1867, 55. PsarocoUm flavi- 

 gastcr, Wagi.er, Isis, 1829, 756 (not of Vieillot). Pendulinus dominicensis, Bp. Consp. 1850, 

 432 (not of hiss.). 



Sp. Char. Bill much attenuated and consiflerably decurved. Tail considerably graduated. 

 Head and neck all round, back (the color extending above over the whole interscapular region), 



