2:^. ICTERUS. 379 



bill and feet black : whole length S'O inches, wing 3-9, tail 4-2. 

 Female similar. 



hah. {Southern Mexico and Guatemala and southwards to Colom- 

 bia, Ecuador, and AVestern Peru. 



/. sah'lni of Costa Eica and Colombia has been separated mainly 

 on account of the absence of the narrow white external edgings of 

 the outer secondaries. But this edging is certainly quite apparent 

 in some Bogotavspecimens, and is also well marked in examples from 

 Western Peru. ■ It does not seem to me to be a constant character. 



Mexico. Purchased. 



Orizaba (Sfeveyis). Sclater Coll. 



Yucatan {Gaumer). Salvia-Godman Coll. 



Mexico. Purchased. 



Choctum, Vera Paz {Salvin). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Corosal, Brit. Honduras {Roe). Salviu-Godman Coll. 



Belize, Brit. Honduras Salviu-Godman Coll. 



[Blancaneaux). 



San Pedro, Houduras {G. M. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Whitely). 



Valza, Costa Pica {Canniol). Salviu-Godman Coll. 



Chepo, Isthmus of Panama Salviu-Godman Coll. 



(Arce). 



Lion Hill, Isthmus of Panama Salvin-Godman Coll. 



{McLeannna). 



Panama {McLeaunan). Sclater CoU. 



Bogota. J. Gould, Esq. 



Botoga. Sclater Coll. 



Santa Rita, Ecuador (Biichhy ). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Chiquiuda, Ecuador (i>»cA:/d'!/). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Payta, Peru [Markham). Salviu-Godman Coll. 



S. America. Purchased. 



25. Icterus giraudi. 



Icterus giraudii, Cassin, Pr. Ac. Se. Pfiil. 1847, p. 333, 1860, p. 140 

 (R. Truando), et lf^t)7, p. 52; id. Journ. Acad. PJiilad. ser. 2, i. 

 p. 138, pi. 17 ; Sclater, 1'. Z. S. 1855, p. 154 (Bogota), et 1857, 

 p. 228 (Vera Cruz) : id. Oaf. A. B. p. 133 ; id. Ibis, 1883, p. 366; 

 Scl.et Sa/v. Ibis, 1859, p. 20 (Guatemala); iid. P. Z. S. 1864, 

 p. 353 (Panama), 186t<, p. 167 (Caracas), 1879, p. 509 (Antioquia) ; 

 iid. Nomencl. p. 36 ; Scdvin, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 142, et 1870, p. 190 

 (Veragua) ; Boxcard, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 445 (Yucatan). 



Icterus melanopterus, Hartl. Bcv. Zool. 1849, p. 275. 



Xanthornus melanopterus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 434. 



Bright yellow, more or less tinged with orange ; front and sides 

 of the head, throat down to the middle of the breast, and wings 

 and tail black ; bill and feet black : whole length 8 inches, wing 

 3-9, tail 3'8. i^tma/f similar. 



Hab. S. Mexico, Yucatan, Guatemala, and throughout Central 

 America south to Venezuela and Colombia. 



a. Ad. sk. Northern Yucatan Salvin-Godman Coll. 



( G(iu)iier). 



