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frontier, is exactly like the Fundacion and Dibulk- -,kins, so that until 

 a good series from Cayenne has been studied it would be unsafe to 

 make any further subdivision of the species. 



The sequence of plumages in this species appears to correspond 

 with that in A. phocniceus, except that the adult male has no distinc- 

 tive winter dress. In juvenal dress both sexes resemble the adult 

 female, but the yellow color is duller and more buffy, and suffuses the 

 entire plumage. At the postjuvenal moult the male assumes the black 

 and yellow dress, but the remiges are dull and brown, and the feathers 

 of the lower parts are veiled with greenish yellow. Not until the 

 first postnuptial moult is the fully adult plumage gained. 



An abundant bird in the marshes at Fundacion, although rare at Di- 

 bulla, where conditions are not so favorable. A small flock was noted 

 in a marsh along the river, several miles inland from Rio Hacha, in 

 July, 1920. In its general habits it is similar to the North American 

 species of the genus, and the nest is similar also, being slung between 

 the stalks of coarse grasses, weeds, or " wild platinos." Two eggs 

 are laid, of the usual pale blue color, with pitchy and lilac dots, 

 speckles, and scrawls. 



449. Icterus galbula (Linnaeus). 



Icterus baltimore Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 1880, 123 (Minca). — Sclater, 

 Ibis, 1883, 354 (" Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta," in range). — Sclater, 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XI, 1886. 364 (Minca). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. 

 Centr.-Am., Aves, I, 1887, 460 ("Santa Marta"). 



Icterus galbula Bangs, Prqc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XII, 1898, 139 (" Santa 

 Marta"). — Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist.. XIII, 1900, 162 (Salvin and 

 Godman's and Bangs' references). — Allen, Auk, XVII, 1900, 365 (Minca, 

 ex Salvin and Godman, and "Santa Marta," ex Bangs). — Ridgway, Bull. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, II, 1902, 310 (Santa Marta region, in range; ref- 

 erences). 



One specimen: Don Diego. 



The Baltimore Oriole reaches its extreme winter limit in this re- 

 gion, where it appears to be quite rare. Simons secured a specimen 

 at Minca on February 12, 1879, and a second individual was shot by 

 Mr. Brown in the same general region. The writer took a single 

 highly plumaged male at Don Diego on January 26, 1914, in the forest 

 at the base of the foothills. No others were seen there or elsewhere. 



