THE IBIS. 



FIFTH SERIES. 



No. V. JANUARY 1884. 



I. — A Review of the Species of Ike Family Icteridae. — 

 Part III. Agelsein^. By P. L. Sclater, M.A , Ph.D., 

 F.R.S. 



(Plate I.) 



[Continued from ' The Ibis/ 1883, p. 374.] 



In reviewing the species of the third subfamily of the Icte- 

 ridse I shall, for convenience' sake, as in the case of the former 

 subfamilies, adhere very closely to the sequence of genera 

 adopted in the ' Nomenclator ' and ' Catalogue of American 

 Birds,' although I am well aware that it would not be diffi- 

 cult to show that in certain points this arrangement is by no 

 means free from objections. 



Subfam. III. Agel^in^, 



The Agelseinie are a group of more terrestrial habits than 

 the Cassicinse and Icterinse, and have their feet modified 

 accordingly ; the bill is shorter and more completely conical, 

 and the culmen straight, flattened, and more or less broadened. 

 But it is exceedingly difficult, I admit, to draw a line dividing 

 some of the more tenuirostral forms of the Agelseinas from 



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