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319. Xanthocephalus icterocephalus (Bp.) Bd. b 404. c 213. R 260. 



Yellow-headed Swamp Blackbird. 



320. Sturnella magna (L.) Sw. b 400. c 214. r 203. 



Meadow Starling; Flold-lark. 



321. Sturnella magna mexicana (Scl.) Ridg. b — . c — . r 203a. 



Mexican Meadow Starling. 



322. Sturnella magna neglecta (Aud.) Allen, b 407. c 2i4a. r 204. 



Western Meadow Starling. 



323. Icterus vulgaris Daud. b 408. c — . r 2C5. (»w.i.) 



Trouplal. 



324. Icterus spurius (L.) Bp. b 414. c 216. r 270. 



Orchard Oriole. 



325. Icterus spurius affinis (Lawr.) Coucs. b — . c 2i6a. r — . (?) 



Texas Orchard Oriole. 



326. Icterus galbula (L., 1758) Coues. b 41B. c 216. r 271. 



Baltimore Oriole. 



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319. X5n-th8-ceph'-51-fls Ic-ter-fi-ceph'-SI-iSs. Gr. {oi/9rfi, bright yellow. — Or. Urtpot, or Lat, 



icterus, see Icteria, No. 144. Kelntcd apparently to 1k(d, I attack, as disease does. 



320. Stur-n5l'-15 mag'-nS. Diminutive of Lat. «<i(rnMs, a starling; as spizelln from spiza. — Lat. 



mat^niia, great, large ; root nuu/, as seen in Gr. n^yas; whence also viacttis, magnified, glo* 

 rifled : mayl, mar/icicin, miu/ic, are all allied. 



321. S. m. m5x-I-ca'-n5. Latinized Mexican. See S'/a^/o, No. 28. 



Not in the orig, ed. Since discovered in Te.xas by J, C. Merrill. 



322. S. m. n5g-lSc'-t5. Lat. ne<jkcia, neglected, that is, not chosen, not heeded ; from ncc, not, 



and l((jo, I elioose, select, &c. See Pants, No. 51. 



323. Ic'-ter-fis vQl-g5'-rIs. See Sittrmts, No. .30.1. — Troupial or (roopial, from the Fr. trouper, is 



simply trooper, tlie bird that goes in troops. 



Not in the orig. cd. Said to straggle to Southern States. No late case of its so doing. 



324. I. spG'-rl-Qs. For Icterus, see Icteria, No. 144, and Xnuthocrplmlus, No. 310. — Lat. spurius, 



illegitimate, bastard, spurious ; related to the Gr. <Twopd, seed, generation, birth, &c., 

 irirtlpoD, I sow seed. The bird was formerly called " Bastard Baltimore Oriole," whence 

 the undeserved Linna?an name. 



335. L s. af-fi'-nis [accent the penult]. Lat. affinis, ad, aniljiuis, allied, affined. 

 This subspecies is very slightly distinguislicd from its stock. 



326. I. gSl'-bfi-lS. Lat. ijaUiula or (jahjnla, some small j-ellow bird of the .nncients ; doubtless 

 derived from some word signifying yellow: there are Latin wonh (/allms, iiallianus, Germ. 

 gcK', &c., of such meaning. — The curious English word oriole, for which no derivation 

 is given in some standard works, has evidently a similar reference to the color yellow, 

 being equivalent to aureole ; Lat. anrnm or Gr. avpov, gold : such form of tlie word for 

 gold, with or- instead of aur-, is seen in the Fr. or. — "Baltimore," the former specific 

 name of the bird, is not directly from the city of that name, but from the name of Sir 

 George Calvert, first Baron of Baltimore, the colors of the bird being chosen by him for 

 his livery, or, as Cate.sby has it (N. II. Car., i, 1731, p. 48), the bird being named from its 

 resemblance in color to the Lord's coat of arms — " which are Paly of six Topaz and 

 Diamond, a Bend, interchang'd." The name bnllimore, L., 1700, as given in the orig. ed. 

 of the Check List, is antedated by Coracias galbula L., 1758 ; see Coucs, Bull. Nutt. Club, 

 April, 1880, p. 98. 



