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U. S. P. R. R. EXP. AND SURVEYS—ZOOLOGY—GENERAL REPORT. 
List of specimens. 
Catal. 
No. 
4286 
3813 
1542 
1626 
150 
1475 
1437 
7012 
5695 
5351 
5348 
5349 
5356 
5352 
5344 
5353 
5345 
5347 
5346 
5343 
5694 
9339 
4957 
6706 
6711 
6707 
6708 
6712 
6710 
6709 
6704 
5033 
8090 
Sp. Cu.—Tail nearly even. 
and age. 
> Qs WAA WALID O GAG 
> QAR? WAOs 
Locality. 
When col- 
lected. 
Whence obtained. 
Calcasteu; Ldtecceces as 
Butaw,; Alaesssicessisscc 
Garlisles Pat cccicscsire 1s 
voeses GOne 
St. Louis, Mo es 
East of Fort Riley, K. T. 
Fort Lookout, Neb...... 
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oocee Ane 
Woods Creek 
Loup Fork..-.. eoee cece 
Ft. Chadbourne, Texas . 
.-| San Antonio, Texas.... 
ences cevesisccienceaces 
Mimbres to Rio Grande. 
TOXaS.. ccccccctces coee 
see) UPECOSIRIVED sn sic nces/oniae 
ese] Guatemala..... cee. aces 
1854..c+e0 eee 
May 17, 1844 
«| July 9, 1844 },. 
Sept. 7, 1840 
May 8, 1844 
-|May 3, 1844 
May 15, 1857 | 
June 14, 1856 
June 21, 1856 
-| May 29, 1856 
.| June —, 1856 }.. 
«| May 29, 1856 
May 30, 1856 
| 1856... ccc eces 
June 15, 1856 
| June 21, 1856 
«| June —, 1856 
-| July 2, 1856 
Aug. 5, 1857 
July —, 1855 
G. Wiirdemann ..)..... 
A. Winchell ..... 
S. F. Baird ......|.. 
sOOneyaists 
Selsteise UOslareinie 
o00evsdQreeciecieces 
Salerein's' AO vsjouisieisisiew 
Lieut. Bryan..... 
Lieut. F. T. Bryan. 
Lieut. Warren...|. 
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veces cineceisiees 
seieveedOes 
seeeadOnse Geile 
sevens dO... cssccees 
Lieut. Bryan..... 
Lieut. Warren....|. 
Dr. Swift.... cee]. 
Lt. A. W. Whipple 
Lt. J. G. Parke...}. 
Col. Graham,,...|. 
Seis sie Oicie tists sees 
Goce leer, 
posocalt Medcocgdned 
Dr. T. C. Henry.. 
Capt. Pope....... 
Tei GOuUld ses ceie cee 
Dr. Hayden.. 
Dr. Kennerly. 
-| Dr. Heermann).... 
J. H. Olark... 
Orig’| Collected by— Length. Stretch 
of wings. 
Remarks. 
751 9.50 
75 9.50 
75 9.50 
75 9.50 
Eyes dark brown,....... 
Iris dark brown........-- 
Eyes brown.. 
Gums and feet yellow ; bill 
black. 
Eyes dark brown......... 
ICTERUS BALTIMORE, Daudin. 
Baltimore Oriole; Golden Robin; Hang Nest. 
Oriolus baltimore, Lixn. Syst. Nat. I, 1766, 162.—Wixson, Am. Orn. I, 1808, 23; pl. i—Is. VI, 1812; pl. liii. 
* Ieterus baltimore, Daup.”’—Aup. Orn. Biog. 1, 1831, 66: V, 1839, 278; pl. 12 and 423.—Is. Birds Am. IV, 1842, 
375 
pl. 217. 
Yphantes baltimore, Virtuo, Gal. des Ois. I, 1824, 124 ; pl. 87. 
Psarocolius baltimore, Wacier, Syst. Av. 1825, No. 26. 
Le Baltimore, Burr. Pl. Enl. 506, f. 1. 
Head all round and to middle of back, scapulars, wings, and upper surface of tail, black ; rest 
of under parts, rump, upper tail coverts, and lesser wing coverts, with terminal portion of tail feathers, (except two innermost, ) 
orange red. 
Edges of wing quills, with a band across the tips of the greater coverts, white. 
Hab.—From Atlantic coast to the High Central Plains, and in their borders, south to Guatemala. 
Length, 7.50 inches ; wing, 3.75. 
The female is much less brilliant in color; the black of the head and back generally replaced 
by brownish yellow, purer on the throat ; each feather with a black spot. 
