288 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Adult male in winter — Similar to the summer plumage, })ut the 

 orange or orange-yellow duller, especiall}' on upper parts, where more 

 or less obscured b3'a tinge or wash of olivaceous; scapulars and inter- 

 scapulars margined terminally with light olive or olive-grayish: ter- 

 tials more broadly margined with white. 



Adult female. — Pileum, hindneck, rump, upper tail-coverts, and 

 tail yellowish olive, the occiput Jind nape tinged with dull brownish 

 gray; back and scapulars dull brownish gray; lesser wing-co\'erts 

 brownish gra}', more dusk}- centrally; rest of wings dusky, with pale 

 brownish gray edgings, the middle coverts broadly tipped with white, 

 and pale edgings to greater coverts becoming white terminally ; beneath 

 dull ochre-yellow, paler on abdomen. strongK washed Avith grayish 

 on sides and flanks. 



Immature male {second year f). — Similar to adult female, but lores, 

 anterior portion of malar region, chin, and throat black. 



Adidt ;/MZt^— Length (skins), 180.3-193 (187.2); wing, 83.3-86.1 

 (84.8); tail, 89.7-98 (94); culmen. from base, 19.6-20.8 (20.1); depth 

 of bill at base, 7.6-8.1 (7.9); tarsus, 21.8-23.6 (22.6); middle toe. 

 15.5-16.8 (16).' 



Adult female.— IjQwgth (skins), 185.4-194.3 (189.7); wing, 80.3-81.5 

 (81); tail, 85.9-90.2 (87.4); culmen, from l)ase, 19.8; depth of bill at 

 base, 7.4-7.9 (7.6); tarsus, 22.4-23.1 (22.6); middle toe, 15.2-15.7 

 (15.5).^ 



Eastern portion of Mexican plateau and Atlantic lowlands, from 

 States of Nucvo Leon (Monterey, near Guajuco, Linares, etc.) and 

 southern Tamaulipas (La Cinia, Alta Mira, etc.), southwest ward 

 through States of San Luis Potosi (Valles), Mexico (Temascaltepec, 

 Amecameca, etc.), Guanajuato (Moro Leon), Morelos (Titela del Vol- 

 can) to Jalisco (San Sebastian, March; Barranca Ibarra, April 21; 

 Zapotlan, December) and Colima (plains of Colima, January). 



Icterus cucuUatus iyWAitisoii, Philos. Mag., new ser., i, 1827, 436 (Temascaltepec, 

 Mexico, Mexico). — Sclaier, Proc. Zooi. Soc. Lond., 1856, 301 (Cordova, 

 Vera Cruz); (?) 1864, 175 (Valley of Mexico); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 132 

 (Mexico); Ibis, 1883, 364, part (monogr.); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 376, 

 part. — (?) ScL.\TER and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 20 (Belize, British Honduras). — 

 (?) Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 466 (Belize).— (?) Lawrence, Am. Lye. N. Y., vii, 

 1860, 267 (Cuba; crit. ).—(?) Gundlach, Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, i, 1866, 

 286; Journ. fiir Orn., 1874, 127 (Cuba): Orn. Cuba, 1893, 96.— Sumichrast, 

 Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 553 (tierra caliente, Vera Cruz).— (?) Duces, 

 La Naturaleza,i, 1868, 139 (Guanajuato). — Lawrence, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., 

 ii., 1874, 279, part (plains of Colima, Jan.). — Baird, Brewer, and Ridg- 

 WAV, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 193, part. — (?) CoRV, List Birds W. L, 

 1885, 13; Auk, iii, 1886, 217 (Cuba); Birds W. I., 1889, 104; Cat. W. I. 

 Birds, 1892, 110 (Cuba).— Ferrari-Perez, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 

 150 (Chietla and Atlixco, Puebla). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-. 

 Am., Aves, i, 1887, 471, part.— Jouv, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, 1893, 781 

 (Barranca Ibarra, Jalisco). 



' Seven specimens. ^ Three specimens. 



