Perching Birds Marked With Yellow or Orange 



503. Audubon Oriole {Icterus audubonii). L. 9.5. 

 Ads. Head, breast, wings and tail black; belly yellow; 

 back greenish yellow. Yng. Greenish yellow below; 

 olive-green above. Notes. See No. 507.' 



Range.— Mexico north to the Lower Rio Grande; casually as far as 



San Antonio, Texas; resident. 



504. Scott Oriole (icterus parisorum) , L. 8; B. .95; 

 Ad. (j\ Lesser wing-coverts, base of tail, rump and 

 belly yellow; rest of plumage black. Ad. $. Yellow- 

 ish below, olive-green above, two white wing-bars. 

 Yng. rf. Like female, but throat black. 'Notes. See 

 No. 507. 



Range. — Mexican tableland, migrating north to western Texas, 

 northern New Mexico, southern Nevada and southeastern California: 

 wintersin Mexico. 



505. Hooded Oriole (Icterus cucullatus sennetti). 



L. 8; B. .75. Ad. (?. Orange; forehead, face, throat, 

 foreback, wings and tail black; lesser wing-coverts and 

 tips to greater ones white. Ad. $. Yellowish below, 

 brownish olive-green above, two white wing-bars. 

 Yng. tf". Like $ , but throat black. Notes. See No. 

 507. 



Range. — Mexico; migrating north to the Lower Rio Grande; winters 

 In Mexico. 



505a. Arizona Hooded Oriole (/. c. nelsoni). Sim- 

 ilar to No. 505, but head, rump, etc. yellow instead of 

 orange. 



Range. — Northwestern Mexico and Lower California, migrating 

 north to southwestern New Mexico, Arizona, and southern California, 

 west of Sierra Nevada; winters in Mexico. 



507. Baltimore Oriole (Icterus galbula). L. 7.5. 

 Ad. c? . Throat, whole head, foreback, wings and 

 middle tail-feathers black; breast, belly, rump, lesser 

 wing-coverts and ends of outer tail-feathers orange; 

 wing-coverts and tertials margined with white. Ad. £• 

 Head and foreback olive-yellow spotted with black; 

 rump and tail brownish yellow, below dull yellow, 

 throat generally blackish. Notes. The notes of all 

 the orange and black Orioles known to me are mellow, 

 musical, querulous whistles generally given in detach- 

 ed fragments, all much alike in character but dis- 

 tinguishable when one becomes familiar with them. 



Range. — Eastern North America west to the Rocky Mountains; 

 breeds from Florida and eastern Texas north to New Brunswick and 

 the Saskatchewan; winters in Central and South America. 



508. Bullock Oriole (Icterus bullockt). L. 7.5. 

 Ad. rj 1 . Cheeks, most of underparts, forehead and line 

 over eye orange; rump and outer tail-feathers yellower; 

 center of throat, crown, foreback and middle tail-feath- 

 ers black; a large white wing-patch. Ad. 9. Above 

 olive grayish brown; below yellowish, belly 

 whiter; tail olive-yellow; wings blackish, median cov- 

 erts tipped, greater coverts externally margined with 

 white; chin sometimes blackish. Yng. tf. Like 9, 

 but center of throat and lores black. Notes. See No. 

 507. 



Range. — Western North America, from Mexico north to Assiniboia 

 and British Columbia; east to western Texas; west to the Pacific; 

 winters In Mexico. 



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