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315. Icterus melanocephalus audubonii. Audubon's Oriole 



Lower Rio Grande, casually north to San Antonio, resident. 

 <Jlb. Icterus parisorum. Scott's Oriole 



ineT^rSnt^'o ° Z'^' ''"" "^'''^ ^""'^ mag^ay]). Sum- 

 mer resident. Orioles supposed to be of this species were ob- 



MaTl905. '" ''''' " "^^ ''^'^^^ ^^^'^^^^^ - ^^^ early part 0^ 



317. Idem cucullatus sennettii. Sennett's Hooded Oriole 



318. Icterus spurius. Orchard Oriole. 



Suinmer resident of the eastern half of the State, breeding from the 

 northern boundary south to the Rio Grande, west to San Angdo 

 Laredo, etc. Mr. Wilham Winston and the writer found 58 ne fs of 

 this species at Waco on the 21 day of May. 1897. nearly all of hem 

 m mesquite trees. On another occasion I found a femi incubS 

 her four eggs m an old mockingbird nest in a Bois d' Arc hedge Her 

 own domicile had probably been destroyed by boys soon after its 

 completion and she was compeUed to make shift 



319. Icterus gaibula. Baltimore Oriole. 



Eastera Texas, migrant, not common. Breeds in the extreme north- 

 ea tern section of the State. At Waco an exceedingly rare migrant 

 only five specimens being noted m twenty years. Cooke records t as 

 a migrant at Gainesville and Bonham. 



320. Icterus buUockii. Bullock's Oriole. 



AbundaBt summer resident of the western and southwestern sections 

 of the State. East to Refugio and San Antonio, breeding m bo^ 

 localities. Rare spring visitor at Waco, not known to breed in the 

 vicmity. On the southern plains this is one of the most abundant 

 fif" '"'\^^^ ^'^'-d. we found six nests in onesmall grove o 

 fifteen trees. Nests were found in mesquite and cat-claw bushes only 

 a few fee from the ground and in some cases within a dozen Set of 

 an occupied nest of Swainson's Hawk. 

 321. Euphagns carolinus. Rusty Blackbird. 



S'^T^'^'T'^^""''^^ ^ '^^ '"^^"«^ districts of extreme 

 Eastern Texas. South to Harris county (Nehrhng). 



