ICTERUS. 37.'. 



parts entirely light yellow, tinged with olive laterally and 



across chest.) 

 e'. Larger (wing 3.85, or more). Adult with tail coverts entirely 

 black; greater wing-coverts ahruptly while at base (this 

 concealed by middle coverts, however); length about 8.80- 

 9.50, wing 3.85-4.25, tail 4.00^.60, culmeu .90-1.00, tarsus 

 .90-1.00. Hah. Mexico and Guatemala, north to Me.xican 



side of Eio Grande. 



I. wagleri Set. Wagler's Oriole.' 

 e*. Smaller (wing not more than 3.55). Adult wiih tail-eoverts 

 chiefly (sometimes entirely'?) yellow; greater wing-coverts 

 black to extreme base ; upper part of breast sometimes with 

 more or less of chestnut next to black of chest; wing 3.25- 

 3.55, tail 3.50-4.00. JIab. Southern Mexico, and south to 

 Costa Eica. 



I. prosthemelas (Strickl.). Strickland's Oriole.' 

 (P. Tail graduated for not more than length of tarsus; adult males 

 with black of head and neck confined to frontlet, lores, cheeks, 

 malar region, chin, throat, and chest; wing with two white 

 bands. (Adult males: Back, scapulars, wings, and tail black, 

 the wings with white markings; other portions j-ellow, orange, 

 or orange-red. Adidt females : Above light olive-greenish, 

 more gra3-ish on back ; wings dusky grayish, with lighter 

 brownish graj- edgings, the middle and greater coverts tipped 

 with white: tail yellowish olive; lower parts entirely yellow, 

 tinged with olive on flanks, etc. Youfig inales, second year: 

 Similar to adult females, hut chin, thi-oat, chest, malar region, 

 and lores black more or less continuously, as in adult. Young 

 in first year : Similar to adult female, but colors paler and 

 duller, the plumage generally, especially on upper parts, suf- 

 fused with pale brownish. Length C. 50-8. 50, wing 3.30-3.60, 

 tail 3.50-1.20.) 

 e'. Adult males with breast, etc., orange or orange-red. 



/'. Adult male with breast, etc., orange or dull oranjxe-red. 

 JS^est usually composed of the " Spanish" moss ( Tilland- 

 sia). often built inside of hanging tufts or tresses of 

 this parasite. JSggs 3-5, .85 X -60, white, speckled, 

 chiefly on larger end. with hair-brown, usually mixed 

 ■with a few small black specks or lines. ITah. Southern 

 and eastern 3[exico. north to lower Rio Grande Valley 

 in Texas. 



505. I. cucuUatus Sw.xins. Hooded Oriole. 



, p. Z. S. IS.iT, 7. 



nelat Strickl., Coatr. Orn. 18S0, 120, pi. 62. IcUrut protlhemelat ScL., P. Z. S. 



