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AVES. 
Ichterus icterocephalus. — The Yellow-Headed Troopial. 
Plate LV. fig. 6. 
Black; head, neck, and breast, golden yellow; a black patch 
round the eyes ; bill horn colour; some of the exterior wing- 
coverts pure white, tipped with black; tail four inches long 
slightly rounded; legs and feet black. Ten inches and a half 
long. Inhabits the United States. 
Genus 19_YPHANTES. — Vieillot. 
Generic Character. —Bill polished, nearly straight, pointed, 
slender; the edge straight; the upper mandible forming the base 
of a pointed cone; enveloped in feathers; nostrils dilated, 
covered by a membrane; tarsus short, annulated ; wings me¬ 
dium length, second and third quills longer than the others; 
tail with twelve feathers. 
Yphantes Baltimorus. — Catesby’s Baltimore. 
Plate XXXVII. fig. 5. 
Head, throat, and upper parts of the wings, black; lower in- 
terscapulum, tergum, and whole under parts, bright orange, 
deeper on the breast; exterior edges of the greater wing-coverts, 
and part of the primaries, white ; tail slightly forked, exterior 
feathers shorter than the others ; bill black, lower mandible blue 
towards the base. Seven inches long. Inhabits the United 
States. 
Genus 20.—S T U RN U S— Linnceus. 
Generic Character .—Bill straight, subulated, angulated, de¬ 
pressed, and somewhat obtuse; the base of the upper mandible 
resting on the forehead ; nostrils lateral, situated at the base of 
the bill, and partly closed by an arched membrane ; wings long, 
the first quill very short, the second and third longest; tarsus 
longer than the middle toe; feet with three toes before and one 
behind, the exterior joined at its base to the middle one. 
