A. d ad. sk. 



c. c? jr. sk. 



<^, ?• J ? ad.sk, 

 /• 6 jr. sk. 

 .J?. 2 ad. sk. 

 ^. c? jr. sk. 

 «: S ad. sk. 

 J. d ad. St. 



'22. icxjiRCs. 



Cape San Lucas, Lower Cali- 

 fornia {Xantus). 



Cape San Lucas, Lower Cali- 

 fornia {Xantus). 



Near the City of Mexico. 



Mexico (Salle). 



Mexico. 



Mexico (Boncard). 



Mexico. 



Mexico. 



375 



Sclater Coll. 



U.S. Nat. Mils. [P.]. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman CoIL 

 Sclater Coll. 

 Sclater Coll. 

 J. Gould, Esq. 

 Purchased. 



19. Icterus melanocephalus. 



PsarocoHus melanocephalus, Waffl. Isis, 1829, p. 756. 



Icterus niekiiocephalus, Ila/m u. Kiister, Voy. cms Asien, Lief, vi 

 p. 2, t. 3; Baird, £. N. Am. p. 543 ; Cassin, B. Cal. p. 1.37, pi. 21 ■ 

 Mater P Z 8. 1856, p. 301, 1858, p. 97, 1869, p. 365 (Jalapa) 

 id. Cat. A B. p. 132; ul Ibis, 1883, p. 365 ; Scl.et Salv. Nomencl 

 p. ^6: Cassin, Pr. Ac. 8c. Phil. 1867, p. 53 ; Baird, Breio., et 

 Kidyw. ISi. A. B. ii. p. 186; Snmichrast, Mem. Bost. S. N. H. i 

 p. 5o3 ; Lawr. Bull. U. S. JV. M. no. 4, p. 23 (Tehuautepec). 



Aaiithornus melanocephalus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 434 (partim) 



Icterus audubonii, Giraud, B. Texas, p. 1 ; Baird, B. N. Am p 54" 

 t 1"; ^■/■^- ^'^^'^' f'-^^l (Oaxaca),1864, p. 175 (City of Mexico"); 

 id. Cat. A. B. p. 1.32; id. Ibis, 1883, p. 366 ; Scl. et Salt,. Xomencl 

 p. o6 ; Cassm, Pr. Ac. Sc. Phil. 1867, p. 53 ; Sumichrmt, Mem. Bost 

 S. N. H. I. p. 553 (Orizaba). 



Icterus nielanocephalus, var. auduboni, Baird, Brew., et Bidotv 

 X. A. B. 11. p. 186. ^ 



Icterus melanocephalus auduboni, Coties, Key N. A. B. (1884) p 41 



Icterus virescens, Lidjois, Bull. Ac. Bely, s^r. 2, xl. p. 798 (1876 P). ' 



Above yeUow, slightly tinged with olivaceous yellow ; whole head 

 and neck, with wmgs and tail, black ; greater wing-coverts and 

 secoudanes sometimes vrith narrow white edgings; lesser wino-- 

 coverts bright yellow : below, throat and middle of breast black • 

 abdomen yellow like the back, but rather brighter ; bill and feet 

 black : whole length 8 inches, wing 3-8, tail 8-8. Female similar. 



Hah. Texas and Mexico. 



The slight white edgings to the greater coverts and secondaries 

 are, as a rule, continid to the northei-n form, /. m. auduboni. Eut 

 one of the skms from Jalapa has traces of this, and I have observed 

 it in other specimens. 



«. Ad. sk. 



a. Ad. sk. 



b. Ad. sk. 

 V. Jr. sk. 

 (I. Ad. sk. 

 e. $ ad. sk. 

 /. Ad. sk. 



a. Subsp. auduboni. 

 Matamoras (Berlattdier). 



b. Subsp. tyjpica. 



Jalapa, Mexico {de Oca). 



Jalapa, Mexico (de Oca). 



Orizaba (Butten). 



( laxaca, Mexico (Fenochio). 



Caxaca, Mexico {Fenochio). 



Mexico. 



Sclater Coll. 



Sclater Coll. 

 Sahiu-Godmau Coll. 

 Sclater Coll. 

 Sclater Coll. 

 Siih in-Godman Coll. 

 ijclater C'olL 



