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Family ICTERIDAE 



ICTERUS GALBULA (Linnaeus) : Baltimore Oriole 



Coracias galbula Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1, 1758, p. 108 (Virginia). 



On October 30 I recorded three small flocks passing through the 

 trees on the slopes of Volcan de Acatenango above Canderas, and at 

 7,600 feet shot an adult male in full plumage. One was seen at 3,200 

 feet below Alotenango on November 8. 



ICTERUS BULLOCKII (Swainson) : Bullock's Oriole 



Xanthornus Bullockii Swainson, Phil. Mag., new ser., vol. 1, June 1827, p. 436 

 (Redl del Monte, Hidalgo, Mexico). 



The first one obtained was shot on October 31 at 7,800 feet on the 

 north slope of Volcan de Agua above Santa Maria de Jesus. An- 

 other was taken near Chimaltenango on November 7, and a third at 

 Panajachel on November 12. The latter with several others was 

 feeding at the fruit of the jocote. 



I see no reason, with the modern information in the form of speci- 

 mens that is available, for considering Ictetms aheillei a geographic 

 race of Bullock's oriole. While the females and immature birds are 

 somewhat similar the adult males are clearly and definitely distinct. 



ICTERUS SPURIUS (Linnaeus) : Orchard Oriole 



Oriolus spurius Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 12, vol. 1, 1766, p. 162 (South 

 Carolina). 



On November 14 at Panajachel I saw two in a dense thicket bor- 

 dering weed-grown fields and collected an immature male. This 

 bird was in molt about the head. 



CASSIDIX MEXICANUS MEXICANUS (Gmelin) 

 Corvus mewicanus Gmelin, Systema naturae, vol. 1, pt. 1, 1788, p. 375 (Mexico). 



This grackle is one of the prominent birds of Guatemala, as it 

 lives in the open, is of large size, and comes regularly about houses. 

 At Guatemala City on October 26 and 27 and December 2 I saw 

 numbers in plazas, even in the business section, and in the suburbs 

 they were common. At Antigua a pair were constantly in the 

 great cypress tree in the patio at the Popenoe house, and I believed 

 that they were nesting. I was told that during the rainy season 

 in August 200 or more came to roost in the shelter of this same tree. 



Above Duenas I found them in open country on the slopes of Vol- 

 can de Acatenango up to 7,300 feet, usually about houses. Near 

 Ciudad Vieja, on November 1, a flock of 30 or 40, all females, flew 



