508 ORNITHOLOGY. 



List of specimens. 



119, Sjtiv.,- Camp 17, valley of the Humboldt, Nevada, August 31, 1807. (Grassy 

 river-bottom.) 9g— Hi— 4^—35— li3^_i-s„_2|_j. Upper mandible, light i)iukish- 

 sepia; lower brownish lilaceous-white, tip darker; iris, hazel; tarsi and toes, deli- 

 cate liliiceous white, faintly tiujred with brown. 



155, ijmi.; Camp 17, September 2, 1807. (Grassy river-bottom.) 9i— UJ — IJ — 

 3.ii — ]^3__]^s_ — oi — 3. Upper mandible, clear light sepia, deepening into horn color 

 at end ; lower brownish lilaceous-whitish, darker terminally. 



247, Sjuv.; Camp 19, West Humboldt Mountains, Nevada, October 11, 1SG7. 

 (Fields.) log— 15— .5—4^—11— ly\—3i—l. Upper mandible, deep horn-color, black- 

 ish terminally ; tomium and lower mandible, paler Hlaceous horn-color, darker ter- 

 minally; iris, hazel ; tarsi, delicate brownish-whitish ; toes, slightly darker. 



302, ? juv.; Truckee Eeservation, Nevada, December 18, 1807. \i—\A\—U—?>h— 

 \f- — ]x — 2^ — 5. Bill, generally, delicate Hlaceous-white; upper mandible with a dilute 

 brownish tinge, the culmen light sepia; iris, umber; tarsi and toes, delicate lihiceous- 

 white. 



415, $ ad.; Carson City, Nevada, March 5, 1808. 93— IGJ— 5i— 4 J^.. U|>per man- 

 dible, 6/acA-; basal portion of culmen, (between frontal feathers,) broad stripe on basal 

 three-fourths of upper tomium, with basal two-thirds of lower mandible 2)urc pale blue ; 

 tip of lower mandible, black ; iris, umber; tarsi aud toes, delicate, uniform, pale ashy- 

 lilaceous. 



459, iad.; Carson, City, Nevada, March 20, 1808. lOi— 17-5J— 41. Same re- 

 marks. 



460, S a<l-; Carson City, Nevada, March 20, 1808. 10—10—5—1. Same remarks. 

 505, nest and eggs (5); Carson City, Nevada, April 21, 1808. Nest imbedded in 



ground beneath sage-bush ; nest precisely like that of S. magna. 



787, nest aud eggs (4) ; Truckee Reservation, June 3, 1808. Nest imbedded in the 

 ground, beneath a low bush, on the grassy bank of the river. 



Icterus bullocki. 



BiillockN Oriole. 



{Ysct'-he of the Washoes.) 



XanUiormis buUockii, Swainson, Synop. Mex. Birds, Thilos. Mag., I, 1827, 430. 



Icterus bullockii, BoNAP., Comp. & Geog. List, 1838, 29.— Baird, B. N. Am., 1858, 

 549; Catal., 1859, No. 410.— Cooper, Orn. Cal, I, 273.— CouES, Key, 1872, 

 158, fig. 100; Check List, 1873, No. 217; B. N.W., 1874, 195.— B. B. & R., 

 Hist. N. Am. B., 11, 1874, 199, pi. xxxiv, flgs. 3, 7.— Henshaw, 1875, 320. 



Except in the higher pine forests, this beautiful Oriole is common in 

 all wooded localities of the western country. It abounded at Sacramento 

 to such an extent that several nests were often found in one tree, a largo 



