2l8 Cory on the Birds of the West ///dies. [April 



Icterus leucopteryx (Wagl.)- 



Psai-ocoliiis leitcopte/yx Wagl. Syst. Av. Sp. i6. 



Icterus /erso//i!t/(s Tem.m. PI. Col. sub tab. p. 482 (1820-39). — Bp. Consp. 



I- P- 435 (1S50). 

 Icterus leucopteryx GossE. Bds. Jam. p. 226 (1847). — Bp. Consp. I, p. 



436 (1850). — ScL. Cat. Am. Bds. p. 34 (1S62). — Albrecht, J. f. O. 



1862, p. 197. — March, Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, p. 299. — ScL. 



& Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 36 (1S73).— A. & E. Newton, 



Handb. Jamaica, p. 104 (18S1). — Scl. Ibis, 1SS3, p. 374. — Cory. 



List Bds. W. I. p. 13 (18S5). 

 Pe//d/di//us leucopteryx Cassin, Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pbila. 1S67, p. 59. 

 Mcla/zopsar leucopteryx Gray, Handl. Bds. II, p. 32 (1870). 



Sp. Char. Male: — Throat, forehead, and in front of the eyes black; upper 

 plumage yellowish green; underparts yellow; wings and tail black; 

 wing-coverts pure white ; showing a broad patch of white on the 

 wdng. 



Female: — Black markings replaced by brownish black; tail pale 

 greenish yellow instead of black; otherwise resembles the male. 

 Length (skin), 7.75; wing, 4.20; tail, 3.25 ; tarsus, .90; bill, .78. 

 Habitat. Jamaica. 



*^ Icterus spurius (Linn.). 



Oriolus spurius Linn. Syst. Nat. I, p. 162 (1766). 



Icterus s/>urius Gundl. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 286 (1866); 

 id. J. f. O. 1874, p. 127 (Cuba).— Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 13 (18S5). 



Accidental in Cuba. 



Icterus oberi Lawr. ' 



Icterus oberi Lawr. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. III. p. 351 (1880).— Grisdale, 

 Ibis, 1882, p. 487. pi. XIII.— ScL. Ibis, 18S3, p. 362.— Cory. List 

 Bds. W. I. p. 13 (1SS5). 



"/l/rt/f'.-— Head, neck, upper part of breast, back, wings and tail 

 black; lower part of breast, abdomen, under tail-coverts and rump 

 light brownish chestnut, with the concealed bases of the feathers of 

 a clear light yellow; the thighs are yellow with a wash of chestnut; 

 edge of wing and under wing-coverts yellow; bill black, with the 

 sides of the under mandible bluish for half its length from the base; 

 tarsi and toes black. 



"Length (skin), 8^ inches; wing, 3I; tail. 4; tarsus, |; bill, \. 



"The female has the upper plumage of a dull greenish olive, with 

 a yellowish tinge, the front and rump inclining more to yellow: the 



