;382 iCTKRin.E. 



under wing-coverts pale yellow ; tail black, at the base beneath 

 ihe coverts yellow ; bill and feet black : whole length 7'2 inches, 

 wing 2'5, tail 'i. 



Hab. Panama (?). 



I bought the skin above described at Southampton in 1846, and 

 have never yet seen a second example. It appears, however, to 

 agree with Dubois's description of two specimens in the Brussels 

 Museum, said to be from Panama (?), and seems to be sufficiently 

 different from /. xantliornus to require recognition. The two points 

 of difference are the striations on the interscapulium, of which there 

 is no sign in /. xantliornus, and the colour of the lesser wing-coverts, 

 which are black at their bases and broadly margined witli yellow. 

 In /. xanthornus these coverts are wholly yellow. 



a. Ad. sk. S. America. Sclater Coll. 



29. Icterus auratus. 



Icterus auratus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 435 ; Laivr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. 

 p. 271 (Yucatan) ; Sclater, Ibis, 1883, p. 369 ; Boucard, P. Z. 8. 

 1883, p. 445. 



Above and below bright orange ; lores, space at the base of the 

 lower mandible, throat, extending down to the middle of the breast, 

 and wings black ; lesser wing-coverts black mixed with yellow ; 

 middle wing-coverts with broad white ends, forming a conspicuous 

 white cross baud : edgings of greater wing-coverts and remiges also 

 white ; tail black, with the base beneath the coverts pale orange, 

 and slight whitish tips ; bill and feet black : whole length 8 inches, 

 wing 3' 7, tail 3' 6. 



Bah. Yucatan. 



The intense reddish-orange colour, the black space at the base of 

 the lower mandible, which unites the lores and the throat, and the 

 conspicuous white terminations of the middle wing-coverts render 

 this fine species easily distinguishable from /. xanthornus. 



a, b. Ad. sk. ; c, d. Northern Yucatan Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Jr. sk. (Gaumer). 



30. Icterus vulgaris. 



Oviolus icterus, Linn. S. N. i. p. IGl. 



Icterus vulgaris, Daud. Tr. d'Oi-n. ii. p. 340 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 434 ; 

 Baird, B. N. Am. p. 542; Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 1.33; id. Ibis, 1883, 

 p. 3(;9 ; Scl. et Salv. F. Z. S. 1868, p. 167 (Venezuela) ; iid. 

 Nomencl. p. 36 ; Finsch, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 578 (Trinidad) ; Cassin, 

 Pr. Ac. So. Phil. 1867, p. 46 ; Sah. et Godm. Ibis, 1879, p. 200 

 (Santa Marta). 



Agelaius longirostris, Vieill. Nonv. Diet, xxxiv. p. 547. 



Icterus longirostris, Bp. Consp. i. p. 435 ; Cassin, Pr. Ac. Sc. Phil. 

 1867, p. 46. 



Icteric Oriole, Latham, Gen. H. B. iii. p. 114. 



Above and below brilliant orange ; whole head and neck and 

 elongated feathers of the throat, broad interscapulium, and tail 



