6lD BULLETIN UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. [Tol.Y. 



1827. Lesson, E. P. Sur les distinctions a ^tablir entre deux especes d'lcterus, jusqn'a 

 ce jour confondnes sous le nom sp^cifique d'lcterocephalus ; par Ch. Bona^ 

 parte. . . < F^mss. Bull, 2^ sect., xii, 1827, pp. 266, 267. 

 Journ. Acad. Phila., vi, 1826, pp. 222-225. 



1830. Vigors, N. A. Omithologisclien Skizzen, Fortsetzung. <[ Oken's Ms, Bd. xxiii, 

 pp. 101:3-1018. 

 Uebersetzt aus d. Zool. Journ., vol. ii, jSTro. vi, 1825, pp. 182-197. 



1836. 0!rd, G. Observations on the Cow Bunting [Molotlirus ater] of the United 



States of America. < London^ Ma(j. Nat. Rist., ix, 1836, pp. 57-71. 

 On its oviposition, parasitism, &c. 



1837. Brewer, T. M. Remarks on the positions assumed by George Ord, Esq., in 



relation to tlie cow black-bird, (Icterus agripeunis [i.e., Molothrus ater]) in 

 Loudon's Magazine for February, 1836. < Journ. Bost. Soc. Xat. Hist., i, pt. iv, 

 1837, pp. 418-435. (Read July 6, 1836.) 



"Icterus agripennis" is a name of the Bobolink (BoUehonyx oryzivorus), not of the species 

 treated in this paper. 



1839. LiNSLEY, J. II. Notice of Vespertilio xJrainosus and Icterus [Agelteiis] Phoeni- 

 ceus. <^SilUm. Am. Journ. Sci., xxxvii, 1839, pp. 195, 196. 

 On the carnivorous habits of the Blackbird. 

 1843. Cabot, S., Jr. [Oriolus mnsicus, sp. n., from Yucatan.] < Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. 

 Hist.,i,18i3,ixl55. 



This is an Icterus, supposed to be the same as that figured by Cassm in Journ. Phila. Acad., 

 ii, 1848, pi. 17 (giraudii). 



1843. GuRNEY, J. H. Note on the occurrence of the red-winged Icterus [Agelseua 



phceniceus] near Norwich. < Zoologist, i, 1843, p. 317. 



1844. Lafresnaye, [F.] de. <G. Icterus. Briss. I. guttulatus. Lafresn. <^Guer. 



Mag. de Zool., 2^ ser., ann^e 1844, Oiseaux, pp. 1-4, pi. 52. 



Icterus mentalis Lafr., B. Z., 1842, p. 136. 

 1847. Cassin, J. Descriptions of three new species of the genus Icterus (Briss.;) 

 specimens of which are in the Museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia. < Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. , iii, 1847, pp. 332-334. 



I. maculi-alatus, I. auricapillus, p. 332 ; I. giraudii, p. 333. 



1847. Tarragon, [L.] de. Description d'une nouvelle espfece de Cassique [Cassicus 



pyrohypogaster], et note sur le Macronix Amelias. < Bevue Zoologique, x, 

 1847, pp. 252, 253. 



1848. Cassin, J. Description of three new species of the genus Icterus, (Briss.); 



specimens of which are in the Museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia. <^ Journ. Acad. Nat. Sd. P/it/a., ii,pt. ii, Aug., 1848, art. xi, pp. 

 137,138,plLxvi,xvii. 



I. maculi-alatus, p. 137, pi. xvi, f. 1; I. auricapillus, p. 137, pi. xvi, f. 2; I. giraudii, p. 138, 

 pi. xvii. Described the year previous in Proc. Phila. Acad., iii, pp. 332-334. 



1850. Strickland, H. E. Xanthornus prosthemelas, Strickland [sp.n.]. <^Jard. 

 Contrib. Ornith., 1850, p. 120, pi. Ixii. 



1852. Lawrence, G. N. Descriptions of new species of Birds of the genera . . . and 

 Xanthornus [affinis], . . . <^ Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y.,y, 1852, -p^. 112-117, 

 pi. V. (Read Apr. 28, 1851.) 



Here occurs, in a paper of wider scope, fuU title of which is in the IST. Am. part of this Bibl., 

 the orig. descr. of the above sp., p. 113. 



1852. [Read, M. C] Cow Blackbird [Molothrus ater]. < The Family Visitor, vol. iii, 



1852, p. 68. 



A popular article, giving numerous species in the nests of which eggs of the Cowbird have 

 been found. 



1853. Anon. " Could 'nt! Cos he Simg so !» < ZooZo(/isf, xi, 1853, p. 3982. 



From Glinton (TJ. S.) Courant. 2^ote of a young person's inability to throw a stone at DoU- 

 chonyx oryzivorus, for the reason stated in the title. 



