500 ORNIXnOLOGY. 



302, 9 ad.: Triickee Meadows, November 19, 1867. T^'jj— 13— 4g— 3J— i— 1 1—3—3. 

 Tarsi and toes, livid-black. 



3!)5, $ad.; Washoe Valley, January 3, 18G8. 7^- 13— 4,\— 3.^. Bill, pluinboous- 

 black, basal two-thirds of lower mandible abruptly, bluish-wbite; iris, umber; tarsi 

 and toes, de<'p black. 



307, S ad.; Washoe Valley, January 3, ISOS. 7i — 13^ — 4g — 3^. Same remarks. 

 417,<Jrtrf.; Washoe Valley, January 3, 1808. 7j\— 13J — ij — 3J. Same remarks. 



y. chrysolwma. 



394, 3 ad.; Washoe Valley, Nevada, January 3, 1808. 7— 13^— Cg— 3^- j7__i3 

 — -3 — h Bill, jj/HHi6eo«s-jrA(7f, culmen and terminal third slaty; iris, umber; tarsi, 

 reddhh sepia, toes, more blackish, yellow beneath (much as in Antlius ludovicianm). 



390, 9rtrf.; Washoe Valley, Nevada, January 3, 18G8. OJ — llg — jj^— 3^. Same 

 remarks. 



308, (? ad.; Washoe Valley, Nevada, January 3, 1808. 7— 12^-44— 33. Same 

 remarks. 



784, nest and eggs (4); Truckee Reservation, June 3, 1808. Nest imbedded in 

 hard gravelly ground, beneath small scraggy sage-bush, on mem between river and 

 mountains. 



819, nest and eggs (3) ; Fort Churchill, Nevada, June 24, 1808. Nest on ground, 

 underneath sage-bush. 



1(132, i ad.; Salt Lake City, Utah, May 22, 1809. 7— 12J. Bill, black, basal two- 

 thirds of lower mandible bluish-white; iris, brown ; tarsi and toes, sepia-black. 



1094, <? ad.; Antelope Island, (Ireat Salt Lake, June 4, 1809. 7^- 13|. Bill, jmro 

 blue-black, basal two-thirds of lower mandible line pale blue; iris, brown; tarsi and 

 toes, dark sepia. 



Family ICTERIDiE— Hang-nests, American Orioles, or 



American Starlings. 



doliciionyx oryzivorus. 



Bob-o-liiik. 



/?. ulhinuchus. 



BoUchonyx oryzivorus var. albinucha, Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., V, Nov., 1873, 

 192.— CouES, Check List, 1873, App., p. 129. 



BoUchonyx oryzivorus, COOPEB, Orn. Cal., 1, 1870, 255 (part). — Henshaw, 1875, 

 311. 



The Bob-o-link seems to bo ajji-eading over all districts of the " Far 

 West" wherever the cultivation of the cereals has extended. We found it 



