iSS6.] Cory o>i the Birds of the West Indies. 2 I C 



Sp. Char. Male: — Top of head dark green, i-est of upper suitace pale 

 brown ; feathers on the rump alternately banded with dark brown 

 and white ; throat and breast dark green, showing purple in some 

 lights ; belly white, having a patch of metallic green on the sides ; 

 flanks and thighs banded with white and brown; wings pale brown, 

 a patch of metallic green on the coverts; tail dark brown. 



Female: — Above pale brown, darkest on the head; underparts 

 pale rufous ; wings and tail brown. 



Length (skin), 4; wing, 2; tail, i ; tarsus, .40. 



An introduced species, resident in Porto Rico. 



Family ICTERID.^. 



Genus Icterus Briss. 



/f/^rz^ Brisson, Orn. II, p. S5 (1760). 



Icterus bonana (Linn.). 



Oriolus bonana Linn. Syst. Nat. I. p. 162 (1766). 



Icterus bonana Daud. Tr. d'Orn. II, p. 332 (tSoo). — ScL. & Salv. Nom. 

 Avium Neotr. p. 36 (1873). — Lawr. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. I, p. 355 

 (1S78).— ScL. Ibis, 1883, p. 358.— Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 13 (1885). 



Pendulinns bonana Vieill. Nouv. Diet. V, p. 316. — Bp. Consp. I, p. 432 

 (1850).— Cassin, Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1867, p. 54. 



Xanthorniis bonana Cab. Mus. Hein. p. 1S3. 



Icterus bonancE Scl. Cat. Am. Bds. p. 131 (1S62). 



Sp. Ch.\r. Male: — Head, throat, and upper breast dark reddish brown; 

 upper half of back, wings and tail black; lower half of back, includ- 

 ing rump, dull orange ; lesser wing-coverts dull brownish orange; 

 under wing-coverts orange, somewhat brighter than the color of the 

 belly. 



Length (skin), 8.25; wing, 3.50; tail. 3.15; tarsus, .78. 

 Habitat. Martinique. 



Icterus hypomelas (Bonap.). 



Icterus dominicensis Vigor. s, Zool. Journ. 1S2S, p. 441. — "Albrecht, J. f. O . 



186) , p, 212." 

 Icterus z'irescens Vigors, Zool. Journ. 1828, p. 441. 

 Psarocolius melanofis Wagl. Isis, 1829, p. 759. 

 Xanthornus dominicensis D'Orb. in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois. p. 



1x5 (1840). — GuNDL. Journ. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VI, p. 31S (1852). 



—Cab. J. f. O. 1S56, p. 10.— Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, 



p. 307 (i860). 



