318 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



\_Icterui< Jndlocki] var. hnUocki Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, 



ii, 1874, 184. 

 [Icterus'] huUocki Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 36. 

 J[ctent.s] Jmllocki Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 409. — Ridgway, Man. 



N. Am. Birds, 1887, 378. 

 PsarocoUus auricollis Maximilian, Reise Nordam., i, 1839, 3(57 (Fort Pierre, 



South Dakota; type in coll. Am. Mas. Nat. Hist, New York City). — Baird, 



in Stansbury's Rep. Gt. Salt Lake, 1852, 332 (Missouri R.). 



ICTERUS ABEILLEI (Lesson). 

 ABEILLES ORIOLE. 



Similar to 7! 7>i(Jlocku\ }iut adult male with rump, upper tail-coverts, 

 sides, flanks, auricular reo-ion, and sides of neck l)lack; adult female 

 and immature male darker and grayer than those of I. hdlockU, espe- 

 cially on sides of head. 



Adult male. — Above uniform deep black, from forehead to upper 

 tail-coverts, inclusive; lores, auricular region, anterior portion of 

 malar region, chin and median portion of throat, sides of neck, sides, 

 and flanks uniform black; rest of under parts, including malar region 

 (except extreme anterior portion), and under wing-coverts 3^ellow, 

 more or less inclining to orange anteriorly; a more or less distinct 

 supraloral lino of orange-yellow; wings black, relieved by a large 

 white patch covering middle and greater coverts (inner webs of the 

 latter black) and l)road white edgings to innermost secondaries, the 

 longer primaries more narrowly edged with white or pale gray; tail 

 yellow, the middle pair of rcctrices mostly black and the rest with 

 more or less of black on terminal portion; maxilla blackish, mandible 

 bluish with dusky tip; legs and feet (in dried skins) dusky horn color. 



Adult female. — Above gray, tinged with olive-3^ellowish on the 

 head, the feathers of the back darker centrally; an indistinct dusky 

 median stripe on chin and throat; sides of throat, malar region, and 

 chest yellowish; sides, flanks, and under tail-coverts grayish, the latter 

 tinged with 3'ellow; abdomen and median portion of the breast dull 

 whitish; wings dusky, the remiges and greater coverts edged with 

 light graj", the latter (except the innermost) and middle coverts broadly 

 tipped with white; tail yellowish olive. 



Immature male. — Similar to adult female, but yellow of chest, etc., 

 brighter, and black throat-stripe usually more distinct. 



Adult ';/^rt/e.— Length (skins), 177.8-188 (181.9); wing, 102.9-106.7 

 (104.6); tail, 80-86.4 (83.6); exposed culmen, 17.3-18.8 (17.8); depth of 

 bill at base, 8.6-10.2 (9.4); tarsus, 23.1-25.4 (24.1); middle toe, 

 15.5-16.5 (16).' 



Adult fell I ale.— Loingth. {skin) ^VJ^.^\ wing, 96.5; tail, 79.2; exposed 

 culmen, 17.8; depth of bill at base, 8.9; tarsus, 25.1; middle toe, 15.2.^ 



^ Five specimens. ■' One specimen. 



