RED-AND- WHITE- WINGED TROOPIAL. 5 



This species is very intimately allied to the Red-winged Starling, 

 Icterus phoeniceus, being of the same size, and almost entirely of the 

 same colom:-. The bill is a little more slender, and has the ridge at 

 the base rather elevated and convex, that part being flattened in the 

 other species ; the tail in the present is even, but in the other well 

 rounded ; the red on the wing is deep carmine, edged behind with 

 pure white, whereas in the other it is scarlet, edged with pale orange 

 yellow. 



Another species very intimately allied to both, PsarocoUus Giiber- 

 nator of Waglek, has the bill considerably shorter and higher, the wings 

 longer, and the tail slightly rounded. It is similar in size, and of the 

 same black colour ; but differs in having the feathers of the head and 

 neck abrupt at their extremities, and presenting a velvety texture, as 

 well as in being furnished with a uniform scarlet patch on the wing, 

 neither edged with white, as in Icterus tricolor^ nor with yellow, as in 

 Icterus phoniceus. 



