24 BIRDS OF SOUTHWESTERN MEXICO. 



109. Icterus spurius var. affinis, Lawr. 



" Tehuaiitepec (Cbihuitan, Santa Efigenia) ; Tehuantepec City. 

 "Iris brown; upper mandible black, lower ashy-blue; feet dark 

 ashy-blue." 



110. molothrus aeneus (Wagl.). 

 " Tehuantepec (Tapana) ; April, 1869. 

 " Iris red ; bill and feet black." 



111. ]?Iolothrus pecoris var. otiscurus (Gm.). 



" Tehuantepec City ; October, 1869. 

 " Iris brown ; feet black." 



113. ISturnella mag^iia var. mcxicana, Scl. 

 " Tehuantepec (Barrio, Santa Efigenia) ; September and February* 

 " Iris hazel- brown ; feet light fleshy-brown." 



113. Quiscaluf^ maerurus, Sw. 



" Tehuantepec (Barrio, Juchitan) ; September and October. 

 " Iris pale-yellow ; bill and feet black." 



114. Quiscalus mexicanus, Cass. 



" Tehuantepec (Guichicovi) ; September, 1869. 



" Iris brown ; bill and feet black ; inside of bill yellow." 



Fam. CORVID.1:. 



11^. Cyaiiocitta corona ta (Sw.). 

 " Cieneguilla (Oaxaca, alpine region) ; August, 1868. 

 " Iris brown ; bill and feet black." 



116. Cyanocitta califoriiica var. sumichrasti, Eidg. 



" Nacaltepec (Oaxaca) ; August, 1868. 

 " Iris brown ; bill and feet black." 



117. Calocitta formosa (Sw.). 



" Tehuantepec (Juchitan) ; Tehuantepec City ; August, September,, 

 and November. 



" Iris brown ; bill and feet black. 



" This is the most widely scattered and the greatest busybody of all 

 the birds of the isthmus. You cannot take a step out of inhabited 

 localities without being assailed by the vexatious scoldings of these 

 Ghavis (that is the name which is given to them). Not content with 



