88 BIRDS OF MAINE. 



Genus ICTERUS Brisson. 

 Subgenus PENDULINUS Vieillot. 



209. (506). Icterus spurius (Linn.}. Orchard Oriole. 

 Accidental within the state, only three instances of its occurrence 



being known, these all based upon the capture of specimens. 



County Records. Androscoggin, "have one taken near Auburn" 

 (Pike) ; Knox, "a specimen was taken at Thomaston by Chas. A. 

 Creightou" (E. Smith) ; Washington, "accidental, a male taken here in 

 the sixties" (Boardman). 



Subgenus YPHANTES Vieillot. 



210. (507). Icterus galbula (Linn.). Baltimore Oriole. 



A summer resident of the southern and western part of the state, 

 where it is quite common, while in the eastern and northern parts 

 it occurs only as a straggler. 



County Records. Androscoggiu, "common summer resident" (John- 

 son) ; Cumberland, "common summer resident" (Mead) ; Franklin, "com- 

 mon summer resident" (Swain) ; Hancock, "summer resident" (Murch) ; 

 Kennebec, "quite common summer resident" (Gardiner Branch) ; Knox, 

 "summer" (Rackliff) ; Oxford, "breeds commonly" (Nash) ; Penobscot, 

 "common summer resident of the southern part of the county while in 

 the northern part it does not occur to my knowledge" (Knight) ; Piscat- 

 aquis, "not common, breeds" (Homer) ; Sagadahoc, "rare, three speci- 

 mens" (Spinney) ; Somerset, "common summer resident" (Morrell) ; 

 Waldo, (Spratt) ; Washington, "straggler" (Boardmau) ; York, "quite 

 common summer resident" (Adams). 



211. (508). Icterus bullocki (Swains.). Bullock's Oriole. 

 This western bird is entitled to a place in the list upon the 



strength of a specimen taken at Sorrento, Hancock County, and 

 now in the collection of Mr. Manly Hardy of Brewer. What is 

 undoubtedly this same specimen is recorded by Mr. Brewster in 

 The Auk, Vol. 7, p. 92, although he erroneously gives the locality as 

 "near Bangor." 



Genus SCOLECOPHAGUS Swainson. 



212. (509). Scolecophagus carolinus (Mull.). Rusty Black- 

 bird. 



A common migrant of general occurrence, while in the extreme 

 northern counties of the Canadian fauna it breeds to some extent. 

 It has been reported as nesting in the Magalloway region. 



