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Mus. Comp. ZooL, iii, 1872, 178 (Kansas, Utah); Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., 

 i 1868 498 (Iowa), 518 (n. Illinois).— Coces, Am. Nat., v, 1871, 195-200 

 (biography); Check List, 1873, no. 213; 2d ed., 1882, no. 319; Birds N. W., 



1874, 188.— Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 267.— Snow, Birds Kansas, 1873, 8 

 (e. Kansas, breeding).— Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, 

 ii 1874, 167, pi. 32, tig. 9; pi. 33, fig. 9.— Lawrence, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., 

 ii' 1874^ 28l'(Mazatlan, Sinaloa).— Newton, Man. N. H. Greenland, 1875, 99 

 (Nenor'talik, 1 spec, Sept. 2, 1820).-Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xvii, 



1875, 442 (Massachusetts, accidental).— Ridgway, Orn. 40th Parallel, 1877, 502 

 (Sacramento, California; localities in Nevada and Utah; habits, etc.); Nom. 

 N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 260.— Sennett, Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. 

 Terr., iv, 1878, 24 (Hidalgo, s. Texas, winter resid.).— Merrill, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., i, 1879, 133 (Fort Brown, Texas, winter).— Gibbs, Bull. U. S. Geol. 

 and (Tcog.' Surv. Terr., v, 1879, 487 (s. w. Michigan, breeding?).— Merriam, 

 Bull NuU. Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 246 (Godbout, prov. Quebec, 1 spec, Sept. 

 1878).— Maynard, Birds E. N. Am., 1881, 137.— Belding, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., V, 1883, 546 (San Jose del Cabo, Lower California).— Loomis, Auk, i, 

 1884 '293 (Chester, South Carolina, 1 spec, Apr. 18, 1884); ii, 1885, 192 

 ((Jo.).-Seton, Auk, ii, 1885, 334 (Toronto, Ontario, several records).— 

 Feilden, Ibis, 1889, 489 (Barbados, Lesser Antilles).— Cory, Cat. Birds 

 \V I 1892, 110, 146 (Cuba; Barbados). 



[Xanihocephalus] icterocephalus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, ^8J2, 156 -Sclater 

 and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 37.-Cory, List Birds W. I., 1885, 14 



(Cuba). 



XUmthocephalus-] icterocephalus Nelson, Bull. Essex Inst., viii, 18/b, 111 (n. e. 

 Illinois, summer resid. ).-Coites, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed.„ 1884, 404. 



Afjelnus longipes Swainson, Philos. Mag., new ser., i, no. 6, June, 1827, 43b (table- 

 land of Mexico; coll. Bullock Mus.). 



Xanthocephalus longipes Sclater, Ibis, 1884, 14 (monogr.; Presidio, near Mazat- 

 lan, etc.) ; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 350.-Salvin and Godman, Biol. 

 Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1887, 455. 



Pslarocolms] perspicJllatusW A01.ER, Isis, 1829, 753 (ex Icterus perspicillatus Lichten- 



stein, manuscript). 

 [Xanthocephalus] persincillntus Bonaparte, Consp. Av., 1, 1850, 431 

 Agela^us perspiciUatu. Reinhardt, Ibis, 1861, 7 (Nenortalik, Greenland; 1 spec, 



Sept. 2, 1820) . . c,x u . 



Icterus frenatus Lichtenstein, Isis, 1843, 60 (Greenland).-BAiRD, ^ fetansbury s 

 Rep. Gt. Salt Lake, 1852, 332 (Greenland). -Reinhardt, Vid. Med. for 

 1853 (1854), 82 (Greenland). 



Genus LEISTES Vigors. 



Leistes Vigors, Zool. Journ., ii, no. vi, July, 1825, 191. (Type, Oriolus americanus 



Gmelin, =Einberiza iniUtaris Linmeus.) 

 Pedotrihes^ Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, Sept. 10, 1851, 191. (Type, Oriolus yman- 

 ensis LiniKOus, = Emberiza mUitaris Linnyeus. ) 

 Rat he r small terrestrial Icteridje with short conical bill, short tail, 

 rather iono-, pointed wings, and long legs, the under parts with more 



or less of red. ^ v 1 fv 



Bill much shorter than head, conical, compressed, acute, its depth 



at btise much more than one-half the length of culmen (nearly equal 



to distance from nostril to tip of maxilla), its b asal width more than 



i"Von MEdoTptfJifi, den Erdboden hilufig betretend." 



