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ZOOLOGY— RIUDS. 



to others of its allies in the art of construction. Captain Bendiro, who found 

 this bird breeding near Tucson, Ariz., gives the following dimensions of a 

 nest : Inner diameter, three inches ; depth inside, same ; outside diameter, 

 from four to five and a half inches ; depth, about four. He says the eggs 

 are usually three, sometimes four, in number. They are of a pale bluish- 

 white ground, spotted with dark-lilac and umber-brown about the larger end. 



ICTERUS BULLOCKI (Swains.). 

 Bullock'** Oriole. 



Xanthornm huUocMi, SWATNS., Syn. Mex. Birds, Taylor's I'liil. Mag., 1, 1827, 4.3G. 



Ivtcrm bullockii, Newb., V. R. R. Rep., vi, 1857, 87. — Rd., Birds N. A., 1858, 549. — Iil., 

 U. S. & .Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1850, Bird.s, 20. — Xantus, Proc. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 192 (Fort Tcjou, Cal.).— nEMiY, Proc. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci. Phila., 1859, 107 (New Mexico).— Coop. & SucKL., P. R. R. Reii., xii, 

 pt. ii, 1800, 209.— IlAYD., Trans. Am. Phil. Soc, xii, 1802, 170.— CouES, Proc. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., ISGG, 91 (Fort Whipple, Ariz.).- Cooper, Birds (^al., 

 i, 1870, 273. — CoiiES, Am. Nat., v, 1871, 078 (biography).— Allen, But. 

 Mus. Conip. Zool., 1872, 178 (Ogden, Utah). — CoUES, Key N. A. Birds, 1872, 

 158, f. 100.— Snow, Birds Kan., 1872, 11.— Uold., Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. 

 IJist, 1872, 20;;.— Bd., Brew., & Rioa., N. A. Birds, ii, 1874, 199, pi. xxxiv, 

 flgs. 3, 7. — Yarrow & IIensuaw, Rep. Orn. Specs., 1872, Wlieeler's Exped., 

 1871, 19. — Y'arrow, Rep. Orn. Specs., 1871, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, ."55. — 

 Henshaw, An. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., xi, 1874, 7. — Id., An. List Birds 

 Utah, 1872, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 40.- M., Rep. Orn. Specs., 1S73, Wheel- 

 er's Exped., 1874, 05, 82. — Allen, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Ilist., June, 1874, 

 IG, 30.— CoUES, Birds Northwest, 1874, 195. 



Yplutntcx bullockii, Heerm., P. R. R. Rep., x, pt. ii, 1859, 52. 



Icterus ( Ypkaiitcs) bullockii, Merriam, U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1872, 085 (Utah ; Idaho). 



A single individual was seen at Provo, Utah, and one shortly afterward 

 in middle of August in tlio Wahsatch Mountains. Prol)ably luigratcs early, 



