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lowish; rest of wings, and tail, deep brownish gray or liair brown, 

 with paler edgings; under parts lemon yellow, shaded with olive 

 anteriorly and laterally; lores blackish. Older specimens are variously 

 intermediate ])etween this plumage and the fully adult livery. 

 Bahamas (islands of Andros and Abaco.) 



Icterus northropi Allen, Auk, vii, no. 4, Oct., 1890, 344 (Andros Island, Bahamas; 

 coll. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. ).— Northrop, Auk, viii, 1891, 71, pi. 1. — Cory, 

 Auk, viii, 1891, 350 (Abaco I., Bahamas); Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 15, 110, 127, 

 146 (Andros and Abaco islands). 



ICTERUS \A^AGLERI Sclater. 

 WAGLER'S ORIOLE. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Head, neck, chest, back, scapulars, wings 

 (except lesser and middle coverts), tail, and upper and under tail- 

 coverts uniform black; rest of plumage rich saffron or cadmium 

 yellow, more or less tinged with chestnut next to black of chest, where 

 the chestnut sometimes forms a distinct band; bill black, with basal 

 portion of mandible bluish gray (pale grayish blue in life?); iris dark 

 brown; legs and feet grayish dusky (bluish gra}^ in life?).^ 



Inmature {second year?). — Pileum, hindneck, rump, upper tail- 

 coverts, and lesser wing-coverts plain olivaceous saffron yellow; middle 

 wing-coverts similar at tips, the underlying portion blackish; back 

 and scapulars yellowish olive-green, narrowly streaked with dusky; 

 greater wing-coverts and secondaries dusky, edged with pale yellowish 

 gray (more broadly, the edgings more yellowish, on the former); 

 primaries dusk3% narrowly edged with dull whitish ; four middle rectrices 

 dusk}'; next pair dusky with outer web mostl}' olive, edged with saffron 

 yellowish; outermost rectrices dull saffron yellowish, dusky terminally; 

 lores, greater part of malar region, chin, throat, and median portion 

 of chest black; rest of under parts and sides of head (except as 

 described) rich saffron or Indian yellow. 



Younger {first vnnterf). — Similar, but without black on chest and 

 throat (which are yellow, like rest of under parts) and upper parts less 

 yellowish, the back, scapulars, and wing-edgings olive-gray (the two 

 former narrowly streaked with black), the pileum and hindneck 

 yellowish olive-gray, very indistinctl}' streaked with darker. 



Young {first plumage). — Above plain rather light olive, slightly 

 browner on back and scapulars, more 3^ellowish olive on head, neck, 

 lower rump, and upper tail-coverts; wings dusky with rather broad 

 olive-buff'y edgings; six middle tail-feathers dusky, edged with light 

 3^ellowish olive, the lateral rectrices light olive on inner webs, their 

 outer webs yellowish olive; under parts entirelj^ dull light yellow, 

 faintly shaded with olive across chest and along sides. 



'"Base of under mandible lead color; tarsi and toes dusky olive." (P. L. Jouy, 

 manuscript. ) 



