340 ICTER1DJ5, 



Keij to the Species. 



A. Black, bend of wing brightly colonred. 



a. Bend of wing red. 



a'. With ochraceous margin. 



r Female striated 1 . phanice^is, p. 340. 



1 Female like male 2. assimilis, p. 341. 



b'. Without ochraceous margin 3. ff?ibprnator, p. 341. 



(■'. With white margin 4. tricolor, p. 342. 



b. Bend of wing fulvous 5. humeralis, p. 342. 



c. Bend of wing yellow : 



j under wing-coverts black 6. xanthomus, p. 343. 



I under wing-coverts yellow 7. thilius, p. 343. 



B. Black, with yellow axillary tuft ....... 8. imthtirmi, p. 344. 



r. Uniform black : 



I mesorhininm slightly flattened 9. cyanopus, p. 344. 



I mesorhiuium more flattened 10. forbesi, p. 345. 



1). Black and yellow : 



] abdomen blnck 11. icterocephalus, p. 34o. 



( abdomen yellow 12. Jlams, p. 346. 



E, Black and chestnut : 



I crown bright chestnut 13. frontalis, p. 347. 



\ crown dark chestnut 14. ruficapiUus, p. 347. 



1. Agelseus phceniceus. 



Oriolus phreniceus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 101 ; Gm. S. N. i. p. 386; Lath. 



Lnd. Orn. i. p. 178. 

 Troupiale a ailes rouges de la Louisiana, Daub. PL Enl. 402. 

 Agelaiiis phoemceus, Sii\ Faun. Bor.-Am. ii. p. 280; Bp. Consp. i. 



p. 430 ; Baird, B. N. Am. p. 526 ; Baird, Brew., et Ridyw. N. 



A. B. ii. p. 150 ; Laiorence, Ann. L. N. Y. ix. p. 104 (Costa Rica). 

 Sturnns predatorius, Wih. Am. Orn. iv. p. 30, pi. 30. figs. 1, 2. 

 Agelffius phceniceus, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 205 (Mexico), 1859, 



p. 58 (Peten) et p. 381 (Oaxaca) ; id. Cat. A. B. p. 135 ; id. Ibis, 



1884, p. 10 ; Scl. et Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 19 ; iid. Noniend. p. 37 ; 



Dresser, Lbis, 1865, p. 492 (Texas) ; Coues, Pr. Ac. Sc. Phil. 1866, 



p. 90 (Arizona) ; id. Key N. A. B. (1884), p. 404 ; id. B. N.-W. 



p. 186; Boucard, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 440 (Yucatan). 

 Red-winged Oriole, Lath. 6. H. iii. p. 180. 



Glossy black ; smaller wing-coverfcs crimson, with a more or less 

 well-defined ochraceous border below ; bill black ; feet hazel : whole 

 length 8"5 inches, wing 4-6, tail 3'5. Femcde much smaller ; above 

 black, irregularly marked with whitish ; ill-defined superciliaries 

 white ; beneath ochraceous white, with distinct black striations. 



Hah. North and Central America down to Costa Rica. 



a. S a-d- St. Arctic America. Capt. Back [P.]. 



I. S jr. St. ; c. $ N. America. Purchased. 



ad. St.; d, e. 



Pull. St. 

 /. c? ad. (alb. var.") California. Purchased. 



St. 



g,h. S 9- ad. sk. ; West slope, Rocky Moun- J. K. Lord, Esq. [P.]. 



i. (5' jr. sk. tains. 



i A- rT 2 ad. sk. ; British Columbia N. A. Bound. Comm. 



/.■ Jjr.sk. [P.]- 



