AGELiEUS TRICOLOR. 505 



29G, <?; Camp 26, November 18, 1SC7. 9i— 153— 5,1— 4/,.— ?P,— l-,'^,— 3^— li. 

 Same reuiarks. (Prepared by Mr. Parker.) 



297, ?; Camp 26, November 18, 1807. 8^— 13— 4^— 3/^— J§— |-^— 3i— li. Up- 

 per maudible, dull black, lower dull cinereous; iris, hazel; tarsi and toes, dull black. 



298, ?; Camp 26, November 18, 1867. 7|— 12|— 4i— 3jV— »— J— 3g— 1^. Upper 

 mandible, brownish slaty-black, tomium paler, lower brownish cinereous; iris, vau- 

 dyke-brown; tarsi and toes, black. 



299, ?; Camp 26, November 18, 1867. 7g— 12g— IJ— 3i— }?— 1|-3— 1 1. Same 

 remarks. 



403, 9; Camp 26, November 19, 1867. 7^— 12^— 4|— 3/,.— 1|— l-^— 3,\— U. 

 Upper mandible, horn-black, tomium paler; lower pale horu-color, the point dusky; 

 iris, hazel; tarsi and tors, brownish-black. 



566, <? ad.; Truckee Reservation, May 15, 1868. 91—15:1— («)— 4. Bill, tarsi, 

 and toes, deep black; iris, sepia. 



772 (3), 773 (3); nests and eggs. Truckee Reservation, May 31, 1868. Nests in 

 small bushes, in overflowed meadow. 



967, i ad.; Salt Lake City, Utah, May 21, 1869. 10—161. Bill, tarsi, and toes, 

 black; iris, brown. 



9!58, <? ad.; Salt Lake City, Utah, May 21, 1869. 10—16. Same remarks. 



1005, 1006, 1007, 1008, 1009; nests and eggs. Salt Lake City, May 21, 1869. 

 Tule-meadows; maximum number of eggs, four. 



1023, S ad.; Salt Lake City, May 22, 1869. 9^19. Remarks as above. 



1024, (? ad.; Salt Lake City, May 22, 1869. 9^-15^. Remarks as above. 



1025, $ ad.; Salt Lake City, May 22, 1869. 9|— 15J. Remarks as above. 

 1089, nest and eggs (4); Antelope Island, Great Salt Lake, June 4, 1869. Gras.sy 



marsh, lake-shore. 



1142 (4), 1143 (4), 1144, 1145, 1146, 1147, 1148, 1149, 1150, 1151, nests and eggs; 

 Antelope Island, Great Salt Lake, June 9, 1869. N'ests in sagebrush, in alkaline pond, 

 ne.ir lake-shore. 



/?. gnbernator. 



432, i ad.; Carson City, Nevada, March 9. 1868. 9;*- ISg— 5^4i. Bill, tarsi, 

 and toes, deep black; iris, hazel. 



788, nest and eggs (4); Truckee Reservation, June 3, 1868. Nest in small bush, 

 in wet meadow. 



AGELiEUS TRICOLOR. 

 R(^d-and-wliitc-slioiildercd Blackbird. 



Icterus tricolor, Nuttall, Man. Orn., I, 2d ed., 1840, 186. 



Agclaus tricolor, Bonap., Comp. & Geog. List, 1838, 30. — Baird, B. N. Am., 

 1858, 530; Cat. N. Am. B., 1859, No. 403.— B. B. & R., Hist. N. Am. B., II, 

 1874, 165, pi. XXXIII, figs. 5, 6, 7.— Cooper, Oru. Cal., I, 1870, 265. 



Agelmus phceniceus var. tricolor, CouES, Key, 1872, 156; Check List, 1873, No. 

 212b. 



Agclwus phwniccKs. d. tricolor, CoUES, Birds N.W., 1874, 186. 



This very distinct species was seen only in the neighborhood of Sacra- 



