1 06 Cory 071 the Birds of the West Indies. 



tail-feathers are yellowish green ; quills brownish black; the prima- 

 ries and secondaries are edged narrowly with dull yellowish gray; 

 tertials are margined with fulvous; wing-coverts dark brown, mar- 

 gined with fulvous ; edge of wing yellow ; the under plumage 

 is of a rather dull dark yellow; the breast and under tail-coverts 

 are of a deeper or warmer color; the sides are greenish olive; 

 bill and legs as in the male. 



"The young male resembles the female in plumage, but has the 

 back somewhat darker." (Lawr. 1. c, orig. descr.) 

 Habitat. Montsenat. 



Icterus icterus (Linn.). 



Oriolus icterus Linn. Syst. Nat. I, p. 161 (1766). 



Icterus vulgaris Davv). Tr. d'Orn. II, p. 340 (1800). — Bp. Consp. I, p 

 434 (^850). — Baird, Bds. N. Am. p. 542 (1858). — ScL. Cat. Am 

 Bds. p. 133 (1862).— Cassin, Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1867, p. 46 

 — FiNSCH, p. Z. S. 1870, p. 578. — ScL. & Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr 

 p. 36 (1873).— GuNDL. Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. VII, p. 209 (1878) 

 — Salv. & Godm. Ibis, 1879, p. 200. — A. & E. Newton, Handb 

 Jamaica, p. 104 (18S1). — Scl. Ibis, 1883, p. 369. — Cory. List Bds 

 W. I. p. 13 (1885). 



Icterus longirostris Vieill. Nouv. Diet. 34, p. 547.-— Bp. Consp. I, p. 435 

 (1850).— Cassin, Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1867, p. 46. 



Sp. Char. Male: — Entire head, throat, and a broad patch on the back 

 black; wings and tail very dark brown, almost black, the former 

 having some of the coverts white, forming a wing-band ; outer webs 

 of secondaries edged with white; rest of plumage bright orange yel- 

 low; the orange of the rump and nape being separated by the black 

 back-patch before mentioned: feathers of the throat narrow and 

 sharply pointed; bill black, the base of lower mandible bluish 

 white. 



The sexes are described a& similar. 



Length (skin), 10; wing, 4.50; tail, 4; tarsus, 1.25; bill, 1.15. 

 Porto Rico, Jamaica, and St. Thomas (intioduced). 



Icterus galbula (Linn.). 



Coracias galbula LiNN. Syst. Nat. loth ed. (1758). 



Icterus baltimore Lemb. Aves Cuba, p. 63 (1S50) — Gundl Report. Fisico- 



Nat. Cuba, I, p. 286 (1866) ; ib. J f. O. 1874. p. 127 (Cuba). 

 Ilyphantes baltimore Cab. J. f. O. 1856, p. 10 (Cuba). 

 Tphantes baltimore Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII. p. 307 (i860) 



(Cuba). 

 Icterus galbula CouES, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, V, p. 98 (1880).— Cory, 



List Bds. W. I. p. 13 (1885). 



Accidental in Cuba. 



