500 ORNITHOLOGY. 



302, 9 «r/.; Tnickee Meadows, November 19, 1SG7. TyL— 13— 4|— 3i— i— IJ— 3— J. 

 Tarsi and toes, livid-black. 



395, Sad; Washoe Valley, January 3, 18GS. 7.J— 13— l/'g— 3.J. Bill, i)lumbeoiis- 

 l)lack, basal two-thirds of lower mandible abruptly, bluish-white ; iris, usuber; tarsi 

 and toes, deep blaek. 



'307, 3 ad.; Washoe Valley, January 3, 18GS. 7i— 13§— 4§— SJ. Same remarks. 



417, (? ad.; Washoe Valley, January 3, 1808. 7^-^^ — 13J — 4J — 3J. Same remarks. 



;-. chrysolwma. 



394, <? ad.; Washoe Valley, Nevada, January 3, 1868. 7— 13^— Gg— 3^— j\— if. 

 — -5 — g. ^\\\, plumbeous ^cliitc, culmen and terminal third slaty; iris, umber; tarsi, 

 reddish sepia, toes, more blackish, yellow beneath (much as in Anthus ludovieianus). 



39G, 9 ad.; Washoe Valley, Nevada, January 3, 18G8. OJ— llg— 3if — 3J. Same 

 remarks. 



398, S ad.; Washoe Valley, Nevada, January 3, 18G8. 7— 12^— 4^— 3§. Same 

 remarks. 



784, nest and eggs (4); Truckee Reservation, June 3, 1868. Nest imbedded in 

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

 mountains. 



819, nest and eggs (3) ; Fort Churchill, Nevada, June 24, 18G8. Nest on ground, 

 underneath sage-bush. 



1032, S ad.; Salt Lake City, Utah, May 22, 18G9. 7—125. Bill, black, basal two- 

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



1094, i ad.; Antelope Island, (Jreat Salt Lake, June 4, 1809. 7^—13^. Bill, pure 

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

 toes, dark sepia. 



Family ICTERID^ — H.vng-nests, American Orioles, or 

 Americ.vn Starlings. 



dolicnonyx oryzivorus. 



Bob-o-liiak. 



/?. alhbmchus. 



DoKchonyx oryzivorus var. albinncha, Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., V, Nov., 1873, 

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



DoUchonyx oryzivorus. Cooper, Oru. Cal., I, 1870, 255 (part). — IJenshaw, 1875, 

 311. 



The Bob-o-link seems to be spreading overall districts of the "Far 

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



