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BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Admit maZ^'.— Length (skins), 210.8-229.9 (222.8); wing, 97.8-113.8 

 (104.9); tail, 101.1-122.2 (108.2); eulmen, from base, 23.4-25.1 (24.6); 

 depth of bill at base, 8.1-9.1 (8.6); tarsus, 24.1-25.9 (24.9); middle toe, 

 17.5-20.3 (18.3).^ 



Adult femah.—l^^w^ih (skins), 194.3-223.5 (207); wing, 96.5-100.1 

 (98); tail, 79.5-104.4 (93.5); eulmen, from base, 22.9-24.4 (23.6); depth 

 of bill at base, 8.1-8.4: tarsus, 23.4-25.1 (24.4); middle toe, 17.5- 

 18.3 (18).' 



From northern Mexico, in states of Sonora (Oposura, Alamos), 

 Chihuahua (near Batopilas), Coahuila (Saltillo), and Nuevo Leon (Dos 

 Arroyos), southward over nearly the whole of Mexieo (except Yucatan) 

 to Guatemala (Duefias; Calderas; Volcan de Fuego; San (leronimo; 

 Hacienda Chancol, etc.). 



Ps[aTOOo//».s'] Jldvigastrr (not Pnidnliiiiis Jlarir/dstn- Vieillot, 1816) WAdLER, Isig, 

 1829, 756 (Mexico). 



Jrterufi dominicen.v.'i (not Oriolns doiiiniicevsh Liniui'tis) Swainson, Philos. Mag., 

 n. s., i, 1827, 436 (Temascal tepee, Mexico). 



\_PenduUnu!(] dominiceimfi Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 432. 



Icterus vKigleri Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 7 (Mexico; coll. P. L. 

 Sclater), 1859, 381 ( Villa Alta, Oaxaca); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 131 (Mexico), 

 Ibis, 1883, 362 (monogr.); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 372 (Oaxaca; 

 Presidio, near Mazatlan; Duefias, Calderas, and Volcan de Fuego, Guate- 

 mala). — Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 545 (Saltillo, Coahuila; 

 Guatemala); ed. 1860 (Birds N. Am.), atlas, pi. 61, fig. 2; Rep. U. S. and 

 Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. 2, 1859, 19, pi. 19, fig. 2 (Saltillo, Coahuila); Cat. 

 N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 412.— Sclater and Salvix, Ibis, 1859, 20 (Duefias, 

 Guatemala). — Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 468 (Volcan de Fuego; descr. nest). — 

 FiNscH, Abh. Nat. Ver. Brem. 1870, 338 (Mazatlan). — Baird, Bkewer, and 

 Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 188, footnote, pi. 35, fig. 2.— Law- 

 rence, Mem. Best. Soc. N. H., ii, 1874, 279 (Mazatlan; Guadalajara; Tepic; 

 habits; song). — Ridgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 267. — Salvin, Cat. 

 Strickland Coll., 1882, 263 (Guatemala).— Ferrari-Perez, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., ix, 1886, 150 (Tecali and Huehuetlan, Puebla, .Tan., Feb.)— Jouy, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, 1893, 781 (Barranca Ibarra, Jalisco). — Salvin 

 and GoDMAN, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1887, 466. 



' Nineteen specimens from Mexico. 

 ^Four specimens from Mexico. 



Specimens from eastern Mexico, western Mexi(-o, and Guatemala average, respec- 

 rively, as follows: 



