Species of the Family Icteridse. 353 



birds in any sharply defined sections/^ and that it is better 

 '^to consider them all under the single genus 'Icterus'". 

 The synonyms of this genus are as follows : — 



Icterus. 



Icterus, Brisson, Orn. ii. p. 85 (1760) : type /. vulgaris. 

 Pendulinus, Vieill. Analyse, p. 33 (1816) : type /. spurius. 

 Hyphantes*, Vieill. ibid. : type /. baltimore. 

 Bananivorus, Bp. C. R. xxxvii. p. 834, et Notes Orn. p. 12 



(1854) : type /. spurius. 

 Euopsar, Cass. Pr. Acad. Phil. 1867, p. 47 : type /. croconotus. 

 Andriopsar, Cass. op. cit. p. 49 : type /. gularis. 

 Ateleopsar, Cass. op. cit. p. 53 : type /. nielanocephalus. 

 Cassiculoides, Cass. op. cit. p, 54 : type /. parisorum. 

 Poliopsar, Cass. op. cit. p. 55 : type /. ivagleri. 

 Melanopsar, Cass. op. cit. p. 56 : type /. chrysocephalus. 

 Icterioides, Cass. op. cit. p. 61 : type /. auricayillus. 

 AporopJiantes , Cass. op. cit. p. 63 : type /. pyrrhopterus . 



Following Messrs. Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, I will 

 shortly define the three subgenera as follows : — 



A. Hyphantes. Bill stout, conical, the culmen and gonys 



straight ; tail slightly rounded : type /. baltimore. 



B. Pendulinus-^. Bill slender, slightly decurved; tail gra- 



duated : type /. spurius. 



C. Icterus. Bill stout, conical, the culmen and gonys nearly 



straight ; tail slightly rounded : type /. vulgaris. 



* Corrected from Yphantes, as written by Vieillot, 



t Xanthornus is used by Messrs. Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, and by 

 other authors, for this subgenus. But Xanthornus was first employed 

 generically by Scopoli (Delicise, ii. p. 88) in 1786 for his Xayithormis holo- 

 sericeus, and would therefore be (strictly) synonymous with Ambly- 

 rhamphus. In 1800 Cuvier used the same term as an equivalent of the 

 French " Carouges " (Legons d'Anat. Oomp. vol. ii. table 2), but without 

 further indicating the type. It seems to me that, under the circumstances, 

 Pendulinus is the proper term for the section, as employed by Oassin 

 (Pr. Acad. Sc. Phil. 1867, p. 54). 



