K'TKKID.i:- THE UPJOLKS. 



K'.T 



aro nioro o])1(>t)i,' in slnipo t]i;iii tin* ]»r<r('(lini4, Imt nearly <M|iially obtuse at 

 fitluT tiid. TIm'V aiv similar in ;;rouM-. < (tlor to the jt/nmums, l»ut are of a 

 slii^litly (lei'pi'r slnulc of IjIuc, and are marked around one end with a ring 

 of dark slaty-brown, almost l»lack, lines, and irri;^ular ol)lung i»lotches. 



Gems ZANTHOCEPHALUS, Hoxap. 



XnnllvM-cphnhis, IImnai'. ( 'onsiH>rtus, 1».')0, 431. (Tyiw^ Icterus whrofephalwi, BttNAP.) 



riF.s. CriAK. IJill conical, tlie lenprth alxmt twice the licitrht ; the outlines noarly 

 ■^raight. Cluws all very long; much curvcil ; the inner lateral the longest, reaching 



Xanthorephnlus irterocfphnlu*. 



beyond the middle of the mi<ldle claw. Tail narrow, nearly even, the outer web scarcely 

 widening to the end. Wiiifrs long, much longer than the tail ; the first quill longest. 



This fjenus differs from typical Affrhrinsi in much lon,i:jcr and more curved 

 claws, even tail, and first i^uill lonoest, instead of the longest being the 

 second, third, or fourth. The yellow head and Idack body are also strong 

 marks. 



Xanthocephalus icterocephalus, r.vinD. 



TELLOW-HEADEO BLACKBIBD. 



Ictents ietrrncrphahut, BoxAP. Am. Orn. I, 182r>, 27, y\. iii. — Nrrr. Man. T, 1832, 176. — 

 In., f2d «'d ,) 1S7 (not Oriolus irtenxvphdhis, LiNX.). Aijclaiiut idcrocephahis, Cauanis, 

 Mus. Hcin. 18^1, 188. Idirus {Xanthonius) xanthoccpJinlna, Bonaf. J. A. X. S<'. V, 

 II, Yvh. 1826, 222. — Ib. Syn. 1828, 52. IrUrus xfinffincephaluf!. Am. Orn. liiog. V, 

 1839, 6, |)1. ccclxxxviii. Aijehiius xanflKHrpIuf/i/s, SwAiNsos', F. Bor.-Aiii. II, 1831, 

 281. — Bon. List, 1838. — Am. Syn. 1839, 140. —In. Bird.s Am. IV, 1842, 24, j.l. 

 ccxiii. - NKwn?:uuY, Zol.l. Cal. and Or. Route; Rep. P. R. R. Surv. VI, iv, 1S.".7, 

 86. — Max. Cab. J. VI, 1858, 361. — Hkehm. X, S, 52 (nest). Atjclaim /omjiys, 

 SwAiNsttN, riiil. Mag. i, 1827, 436. Pmrocoliiis p€rspiciUani.<t, " LiciiT." WAOi.Kn, 

 Isis, 1829. vii, 753. Lierus pTspicillnftts, " Liciir. in Mus." Wagleu, as aliove. 

 XanthorrpJiafus pcr^piciUdtus, Bona?. Cousp. 1850, 431. la'crus frcnotus, LiciiT. 

 Isls, 1843, 59. — Rf.iniiai;i)T, in Kroyer's Tidskrift, IV. - In. Vidensk. Me.ldel. for 

 1853, 1854, 82 (Greenland). Xanthocrptoilna icf> rort/Ji'iIn^, Baihd, M. B. II, Birds, 

 18 ; Birds N. Am. 1858, 531. — Cooper, Orn. Cal. I, 1870, 267. 



