308 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Nioaraouil (Rio Escondido; Lo.s Sabalos; Grey town) to Colombia 

 (Bogota; Antioquia; Rio Atrato) and Venezuela. 



Icterus incsomelm (not Psarocolius menornelas Wagler) Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1855, 154 (Bogota, Colomljia); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 13o, part (Bogota); 

 Ibis, 1883, 367, part (monogr.) ; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 378, part ( Valza, 

 Costa Rica; Chepo., Lion Hill, and Panama, Isthnnis of Panama). — Sclater 

 and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 186-4, 354 (Lion Hill, Panama R. R. ); 

 1867, 297 (Blewfields, Nicaragua); 1879, 509 (Antioquia, Colombia).— 

 Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., vii, 1861, 297 (Lion Hill); viii, 1865, 181 (Grey- 

 town, Nicaragua). — Zeledon, Cat. Aves de Costa Rica, 1882, 9; An. Mus. Nac. 

 Costa Rica, i, 1887, 112(Sipuri()andTalamanca, Costa Rica). — Nutting, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, 1884, 402 (Los Sabalos, Nicaragua).— Allen, Bull. Am. 

 Mus. N. H., xiii, 1900, 162 (Cacagualito, prov. Santa Marta, C'olombia).- 

 Richmond, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, 1893, 495 (Rio Escoudiilo, Nicaragua; 

 habits; song). 



\_Icterus] incsoiaelati Sclater and Salvix, Nom. A v. Neotr., 1873, 36, part. 



Icterus salvinii Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., Apr., 1867, 51 (Turrialba and San 

 Carlos, Costa Rica; Greytown, Nicaragua; Rio Atrato and Bogota, Colombia; 

 Venezuela; type in Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. ) 



Icterus salvini Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 18(58, 104 (San Carlos and Turrial]>a, 

 Costa Rica). — Frantzius, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 302 (Costa Rica). — Zeledon, 

 Cat. Aves de Costa Rica, 1882, 9. 



I[cterus'] salvini Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 838, in text 

 (crit.). 



Icterus inesomelas salrinl Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, ii, Sept. 20, 1900, 33 

 (Loma del Leon, Panama R. R. ). 



Icterus niesomelas salmiii Ridgway, Proc. Wash. Ac. Sci., iii, 1901, 153, in text. 



ICTERUS PARISORUM Bonaparte. 

 SCOTT'S ORIOLE. 



Adult male in su/iuncT. — Head, neck, che.st, back, and .scapulars uni- 

 form black; lesser wing-coverts, edge of wing, under wing-coverts, 

 axillars. under parts of body (except chest), thighs, under tail-coverts, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts deep lemon yellow, the rump and upper 

 tail-coverts usuall}' more or less (sometimes strongly) tinged or washed 

 with olive or olive-grayish; middle wing-coverts usually paler yellow, 

 often passing into white at tips; rest of wings l)lack, the greater coverts 

 more or less l^roadly tipped with white, and some of the remiges (espe- 

 ciall}^ the tertials) with narrow white margins; four middle rectrices 

 black, with basal portion light lemon yellow; rest of rectrices with 

 more than the basal half light lemon yellow, the terminal portion 

 black, more or less margined terminally with white; bill black, with 

 basal half of mandible light bluish gray; legs and feet (in dried skins) 

 dusk}' horn color. 



Adult male in tointer. — Similar to the summer male but white mark- 

 ings on wings much broader, feathers of ])a('k more or less margined 

 with light gray, rump and upper tail-coverts more strongly washed 

 with olive or gray, and flanks more or less tinged with olive. 



