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BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Ad/ult female.— hQwgih (skins), 157.5-170.2 (166.1); wing, 85.1- 

 91.9 (8S.9); tail, 60-71.9 (68.6); exposed ciilmen, 16-18 (17.5) depth 

 of bill at base, 8.4-10.2 (9.4); tarsus, 22.4-24.1 (23.1); middle toe, 

 14.7-16.5 (15.5). 1 



Eastern temperate North America; breeding from the more south- 

 ern United States (Texas to the Carolinas), except along the Gulf 

 coast, northward to Nova Scotia, southern New Brunswick, Ontario, 

 and Manitoba (to latitude 55"^); west to eastern Assiniboia, Montana, 

 Wyoming, and Colorado, east of the Rocky Mountains; in winter 

 south through eastern Mexico and Central America to Colombia 

 (province of Santa Marta) and Venezuela (Caracas?); accidental in 

 Cuba, at York Factory, and said to have been taken in the Shetland 

 Islands. 



[Coracias] galhulaJASSMV^, Syst. Nat.,ed. 10, i, 1758, 108 ("America"; based on 

 Icterus ex aureo nigroque variw^ Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carolina, i, pi. 48). 



Icterus galbula Coues, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, Apr., 1880, 98; Check List, 2d 

 ed., 1882, no. 326.— Ridgway, Norn. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 271; Proc. U.S. 

 Nat. Mus., X, 1887, 580 (Truxillo, Honduras, Sept.); Orn. Illinois, i, 1889, 

 319.— Chamberlain, Bull, i, Nat. Hist. Soc. N. B., 1882,41 (New Brunswick, 

 rare summer resid. ) ; Auk, iv, 1887, 256 (near Halifax, Nova Scotia, Sept. ). — 

 Ogilby, Sci. Proc. Roy. Dubl. Soc, iii, 1882, 48 (Navarro Co., Texas, 1 spec, 

 Aug. 30).— Hay, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 92 (Memphis, Tennessee, and 

 Jackson, Mississippi, summer). — Beckham, Journ. Cine. Soc. N. H., vi, 1883, 

 143 (Nelson Co., Kentucky, breeding). — Nutting, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 

 1883, 500 (San Jose, Costa Rica) ; vi, 1883, 392 (Ometepe, Nicaragua).— Bick- 

 NELL, Auk, ii, 1885, 251 (song). — Agersborg, Auk, ii, 1885, 282 (s. e. South 

 Dakota, breeding). — Cooke, Auk, ii, 1885, 58 (migrations in 1884) ; Bird Migr. 

 Miss. Val., 1888, 170 (dates, etc.); Birds Col., 1897, 95 (rare summer resid. EI 

 Paso Co., etc., e. side of mountains); Bull. no. 44, Col. Agric Col., 1898, 164 

 (Golden, Colorado). — Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 219 (West Indian references); 

 Birds W. I., 1889, 106; Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 110 (Cuba).— American 

 Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 507. — Ferrari-Perez, Proc 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 149 (Tezuitlan, Puebla, Nov.; Jalapa, Vera Cruz, 

 Sept.). — Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 112 (San Jose, Cartago, 

 and Alajuela, Costa Rica). — Goss, Birds Kansas, 1891, 403 (whole State, 



^ Eight specimens. 



Specimens from the Mississippi Valley agree very closely with those from the 

 Atlantic States, both in coloration and measurements; possibly the former average 

 l)righter in coloration, especially adult males, some of which are by far the most 

 intensely colored examples seen. Average measurements are as follows: 



