species of the Family Icteridse. 23 



Fuscescenti-niger, superciliis pallide fuscis ; campterio alari 

 et corpore medio subttis a meuto ad medium ventrem 

 coccineis ; rostro corneo ; pedibus clare bruniieis : long, 

 tota 7'Oj alae 4"0, caudse 2"5. Fem. Pallide fusca^, supr^ 

 nigro variegata^ subtiis coccineo tincta; ventre imo et 

 lateribus nigro striatis. 

 Hab. Argentine Republic^ Bolivia^ and Brazil north to 

 Pernambuco. 



Mus. P. L. S. et S.-G. 



Mr. Forbes's skins from Pernambuco belong decidedly to 

 this species, which Mr. Cassin has already recorded as found 

 at Ceara, North Brazil (Pr. Ac. Sc. Phil. 1866, p. 14). 



Genus XII. Trupialis. 



Trupialis, Bp. Consp. i. p. 429 (1850) : t^'pe T. militaris. 

 Pezites, Cab. Mus. Hein. i, p. 191 (1851) : type T. militaris. y 



Clavis specierum. 



Subalaribus albis : rostro loiigiore (1) militaris. 



„ „ rostro breviore (2) bellicosa. 



Subalaribus nigris (3) deJUippii. 



1. Trupialis militaris, 



Sturnus militaris, Linn. S. N. i. p. 291. 



Sturnus loyca, Mol. Chil. p. 225; Gm. S. N. i. p. 304; 

 Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 235. 



Magellanic Stare, Lath. G. H. v. p. 8. 



Sturnella militaris, Vieill. Enc. Meth. p. 635 ; Gould^ 

 P. Z. S. 1859, p. 94; Sclater, P. Z. S. 1860, p. 385 (Falk- 

 lands) ; Abbott, Ibis, 1861, p. 153 (Falklands) ; Cassin, Pr. 

 Ac. Sc. Phil. 1866, p. 21; Sel. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 323 (Chili), 

 1868, p. 529 (Falklands) ; Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 138 ; Hudson, 

 P. Z. S. 1872, p. 548 (rep. Arg.) ; Durnford, Ibis, 1877, p. 33, 

 et 1878, p. 394 (Chupat). 



Pezites loyca, Cab, Mus. Hein, i. p.*191. 



Trupialis militaris, Bp. Consp. i. p. 429. 

 Nigra, fusco striata et variegata ; superciliis elongatis albis ; 

 loris, campterio alari et corpore medio subtus ad medium 

 ventrem coccineis; rostro corneo; pedibus saturate fuscis; 



