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ITctcrus] cucullntns 8clater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 36, part. — (?) 



Cory, Dist. Birds W. I., 1885, 13. 

 \_Icterus cucullatus] var. cucuUatus Baikj), Brewkk, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 



Birds, ii, 1874, 183, part. 

 Ilderus] cucuUatus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 409, part. — Ridgway 



Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 375, part. 

 IFenduliims] cucullatus Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 433. 

 PenduUnus cucullatus Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1867, 60, part (monogr.). 

 Icterus cucullatus cucullatus Ridgway, Proc. Wash. Ac. Sci., iii, Apr. 15, 1901, 152, 



in text. 

 (?) Hyplmntes costototl {not Psarocolius coztototl Wagler?) Gundlach, Journ. fiir 



Orn., 1856, 11 (Cuba); 1861, 413 (do.). 

 (?) Yphantcs hidlockii (not Xanthornus Imllockii Swainson) Brewer, Proc. Bost. 



Soc. N. H., vii, 1860, 307 (Cuba). 

 llcterus cucullatus'] a. Subsp. typica Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 376, 



in list of specimens (Mexico). 



ICTERUS CUCULLATUS SENNETTI Ridgway. 

 SENNETTS ORIOLE. 



Similar to /. c. cucullatiis^ but lighter in coxor; adult males less 

 decidedly orange, the color of pileum, chest, etc., deep cadmium 

 yellow, never cadmium orange; adult females much lighter in color, 

 the yellow of under parts dull or pale gamboge instead of saffron or 

 ochreous, the back and scapulars lighter grayish, and light olive- 

 greenish of pileum, rump, etc.. clearer; wing and tail averaging 

 decidedly shorter. 



Adult m«76^— Length (skins), 188-199.7 (193); wing, 80.5-85.3 

 (83.3); tail, 87.9-99.1 (91.7); culmen, from base, 19.8-20.6 (20.3); 

 depth of bill at base, 7.9-8.4 (8. 1^- tarsus 21.8-23.1 (22.6); middle toe, 

 15.2-16.7 (15.5).^ 



Adult female.— hQwgih (skins), 177.8-190.5 (184.7); wing, 78-81.3 

 (79.5); tail, 83.8-88.4 (86.4); culmen, from base, 18.3-19.6 (19.1); 

 depth of bill at base, 7.6-8.1 ^7.9^- tarsus, 20.8-22.6 (22.1); middle 

 toe, 15.2-15.7 (15.5).' 



Lower Rio Grande Valley, in Texas and Tamaulipas; south in winter 

 to Morelos (Cuernavaca, Yautepec, etc., January). 



Icterus cucullatus (not of Swainson) Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., v, 1852, 116 

 (Texas). — Baird, in Stansbury's Rep. Gt. Salt Lake, 1852, 332 (Rio Grande, 

 Texas) ; Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 546 (Cliarco Escondido, Tamauli- 

 pas) ; Rep. U. S. and Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. 2, 1859, 19 (do. ) ; Cat. N. Am. 

 Birds, 1859, no. 413.— Cassin, lUustr. Birds Tex., Cal., etc., 1854, 42, pi. 8 

 (Texas). — Butcher, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1868,150 (Laredo, Texas).— 

 Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 218; 2d ed., 1882, no. 328.— Baird, Brewer, and 

 Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 193, part, pi. 35, fig. 6. — Sennett, 

 Bull.U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., iv, 1878, 25 (Brownsville and Hidalgo, 

 Texas; habits, etc.); v, 1879, 398 (Lometa, Texas; habits; descr. nest and 

 eggs; measurements). — Merrill, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1879, 134 (Fort 



^ Seven specimens. ^ Five specimens. 



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