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1827. Lesson, R. P. Sur les distinctions a ^tablir eutre deux especes d'Icterus, jusqn'a 

 ce jour coufondues sous le uom sp^cifique d'lcterocephalus ; par Cb. Bona- 

 parte. . . < Feniss. Bull. , 2« sect., xii, 1827, pp. 266, 267. 

 Journ. Acad. Phila., vi, 1826, pp. 222-225. 



1830. Vigors, N. A. Ornitliologisclien Skizzen, Fort.setzuuy. <[ Okeii's Isis, Bd. xxiii, 

 pp. 10i:5-101rt. 

 Uebersetzt au.s d. Zool. Journ., vol. ii, ISro. vi, 1825, pp. 182-197. 



1836. Ord, G. Observations on the Cow Bunting [Molothrus ater] of the United 



States of America. <^ Loudon's Mag. Nat. Hist., ix, 1836, pp. 57-71. 

 On its oviposition, parasitism, &c. 



1837. Brewer, T. M. Remarks on the xiositions assumed by George Ord, Esq., in 



rehition to the cow black-bird, (Icterus agrij)euuis [i. c, Molothrus ater]) in 

 Loudon's Magazine for February, 1836. <^ Journ. Boat. Soc. Xat. Hist., i, pt. iv, 

 1837, pp. 418-435. (Read July 6, 1836. ) 



"Icterus agripennis" is a name of the Boboliuk {DoUchunyx oryzioorus), not of the species 

 treated in this paper. 



1839. LiNSLEY, J. II. Notice of Vespertilio x>ruinosus and Icterus [Ageheus] Phoeni- 

 ceus. <^SiJrtm. Am. Journ. Sci., xxxvii, 1839, pp. 195,196. 

 On the carnivorous habits of the Blackbird. 

 1843. Cabot, S., Jr. [Oriolus musicus, sp. n., from Yucatan.] <^ Froc. Bost. Soc. Xat. 

 Hist., i, 1843, p. 15.5. 



This is an Icterus, supposed to be the same as that figured by Cassin in Journ. Phila. Acad., 

 ii, 1848, pi. 17 (giraudii) . 



1843. GuRNEY, J. H. Note on the occurrence of the red-winged Icterus [Agelaeus 



phceniceus] near Norwich. <^ Zoologist, i, lf*43, p. 317. 



1844. Lafresnaye, [F. ] de. < G. Icterus. Briss. I. guttulatus. Lafresn. < G-ner. 



Mag. de Zool., 2« s6r., ann^e 1844, Oiseanx, pp. 1-4, pi. .52. 



Icterus mentalis Lafr., R. Z., 1842, p. 136. 

 1847. Cassix, J. Descriptions of three new species of the genus Icteriis (Briss.;) 

 specimens of which are in the Museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia. < Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., in, 1847, p]). 332-334. 



/. maculi-alatus, I. aiiricapillus, p. 332 ; /. giraudii, p. 333. 



1847. Tarragon, [L.] de. Description d'une nouvelle espfece de Cassique [Cassicus 



pyrohyjiogaster], et note sur le Macronix Amelise. <^ Pevue Zoologique, x, 

 1847, pp. 2.52, 253. 



1848. Cassin, J. Description of three new species of the genus Icterus, (Briss.); 



8i)ecimeus of which are in the Museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia. <^ Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. P/((7rt.. ii,pt. ii, Aug., 1848, art. xi,pp. 

 137,138,pll. xvi,xvii. 



I. maeuK-alatiis, p. 137, pi. xvi, f. 1 ; I. auricapillus. p. 137, pi. xvi, f 2 : I. giraudii, p. 138, 

 pi. xvii. Described the year previous in Proc. Phila. Acad., iii, pp. 332-334. 



1850. Strickland, H. E. Xanthornus prosthemelas, Strickland [sp. n.]. <^Jard. 



Contrih. Ornith., 18.50, p. 120, pi. Ixii. 

 1852. Lawrence, G. N. Descriptions of new species of Birds of the genera . . . and 



Xanthornus [affinis], . . . <^h«. if/c. A"a/. Jffis/. A^. F., v, 1852, pp. 112-117, 



pl.v. (Read Apr. 28, 1851.) 

 Here occurs, in a iiaper of wider scope, full title of which is in the N. Am. part of this Bibl., 



the orig. descr. of the above sp., p. 113. 



1852. [Read, M. C] Cow Blackbird [Molothrus ater]. < Tlw Family risiior, vol. iii, 



18.52, p. 68. 



A popular article, giving numerous species in the nests of which eggs of the Cowbird have 

 been found. 



1853. Anon. " Could 'nt ! Cos he Sung so !" < Zoologist, xi, 18.53, p. 3982. 



From Clinton (\J. S.) Courant. Xote of a young person's inability to throw a stone at Doli- 

 chonyx oryzivorus, for the reason stated in the title. 



