350 ICTERID.E. 



XantJiocephalus is confined to the western prairies of North 

 America, ranging far north in summer, and descending in winter to 

 Central and Western Mexico. It breeds in reed-beds in the marshes 

 of the prairie districts, maldng a cup-shaped nest and laying five or 

 six spotted eggs. 



1. Xanthocephalus longipes. 



Icterus icterocephalus, Bp. Am. Orn. i. p. 27, pi. 3. figs. 1, 2 (err.). 

 Agelffius icteroceplialus, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 18ft. 

 Icterus xanthocephalus, Bp. Journ. Acad. Pliilad. v. p. 22.3 (1826). 

 Agelaius xanthocephalus, Sw. Faun. Bor.-Am. ii. p. 281 ; Cassin, Pr. 



Ac. Sc. Phil. 1866, p. 11. 

 Agelaus longipes, Sw. Phil. Mag. 1827, i. p. 436. 

 Psarocolius perspicillatus, Wagl. Isis, 1829, p. 753. 

 Xanthocephalus perspiciUatus, Bp. Gonsp. i. p. 431. 

 Xanthocephalus icterocephalus, Baird, B. N. Am. p. 531 ; Scl. P. Z. S. 



1864, p. 175 (Mexico) ; id. Cut. A. B. p. 136 ; Scl. et Sah. Nomend. 



p. 37; Dresser, J6is, 1865, p. 492 (Texas); Coues, Key, p. 156, 



ed. 2, p. 404; id. B. N.-W. p. 188; Baird, Brew., et Ridgw. 



N. A. B. ii. p. 167 ; Poey, Rep. F.-N. i. p. 288 (Cuba) ; Cooper, 



B. Calif, p. 267. 

 Xanthocephalus longipes, Scl. Ibis, 1884, p. 14. 



Dull blacls ; whole head all round (except the lores) with fore neck 

 and breast orange-yellow ; patch at the base of the feathers of the 

 crissum yellow ; conspicuous patch on the upper wing-coverta 

 white : bill and feet black ; whole length 9 inches, wing 5-5, 

 tail 3-8. Female. Smaller and more brown in tint ; the yellow 

 colour much duller and confined to the superciliaries, sides of the 

 head, and breast ; no white patch on the wing. 



Hah. Prairies of North America from California and the Sas- 

 katchewan down to Southern Mexico. 



a. (S ad. St. Arctic America. Capt. Sir G. Back, R.N. 



LP.]. 



6. c? ad. sk. Norty-ninth Parallel, N.A. N.A.Bound.Comm.[P.l. 



c, <;. c? 2 ad. sk. Fort Dufierin, N.A. N.A.Bound.Comm.[P.]. 



e. S ad. sk. Hudson's Bay. Capt. D. Herd [P.l. 



f. (S ad. .sk. Arctic America. Sir J. Richardson [P.]. 

 'g, h. S ? ad.sk. Pembina, Dakotah (Coues). U.S. Nat. Mus. [P.]. 

 i,j. d 2 ad. sk. Illinois, U. S. A. (Coale). Sclater Coll. 



k. cJ ad. sk. Fort Laramie, U. S. A. Salvin-Godman CoU, 



{Cooper). 



I. 2 jr. sk. Arizona (Rothrack). U.S. Nat. Mus. 



»i. (5' jr. sk. Mexico. Sclater Coll. 



«, 0. cJ 2 ad. sk. Presidio, Mexico (Forrer). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



p. 2 ad. sk. Valley of Mexico (Le Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Stra?ige). 



if. AMBLYRHAMPHUS. ^ 



A_mblyrhamphus, Leach, Zool. Misc. i. p. 82 (1814) . . A. holosericeus. 

 Amblyrhynchus (err.), G. R. Gray, List of Genera, 



1840, p. 41 A. holosericeus. 



This is another monotypic form, restricted to the pampas of South 



