PASSERES— ICTERIDAE— XANTHOCEPHALUS ICTEROCEPUALUS. 315 



No. 



Sex. 



Locality. 



Date. 



Collector. 



Wing. 



Tail. 



Bill. 



Tarsus. 



406 



407 



40S 



461 



67 



7 



Si 



446 



10S0 



1081 



$ ad. 



S ad. 

 S ad. 

 $ ad. 

 9 ad. 

 $ ad. 

 S ad. 

 9 ad. 



9 



9 



Cove Creek, Utah 



do 



Nov. 15, 1S72 

 do 



H. W. Hcnshaw and 



Dr. H. C. Yarrow. 

 do 



















do 



do 



do 













Nov. 30, 1872 

 May 12, 1873 

 June — , 1S73 

 July 31, 1S74 

 Aug. 20, 1S74 

 Oct. 29, 1874 

 .do 



do 













H. W. Henshaw 



Dr. J. T. Rothrock 



C. E. Aiken 



4.21 

 5-03 



3-45 

 4. 20 



0.73 

 0.92 



0.97 

 1. 12 



do 







Dr. J. T. Rothrock 











Camp Apache, Ariz 



H. W. Henshaw 











do 

























XANTHOGEPHALUS ICTEROCEPHALUS (Bon.). 

 Yellow-headed Blackbird. 



Icterus icteroceplialus, Bon., Am. Orn., i, 1825, 27, pi. iii. 



Agelwus icteroceplialus, Bd., Stans. Eep. Exp. Great Salt Lake, 1S52, 326. 



Xanthoccphalus icteroceplialus, Bd., P. E. R. Rep., Beckwith's Route, x, 1850, 13. — Id., 

 Ives' Gol. Exped., 1857-58, pt. iv, G. — Xantus, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 

 1S59, 192 (Fort Tejou, Cal.).— Bd., U. S. & Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt, ii, 1859, 

 Birds, 18.— Henry, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 107 (New Mexico).— 

 Hayd., Trans. Am. Phil. Soc, xii, 1802, 109.— Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., 18GG, 91 (Fort Whipple, Ariz.).— Id., ib., 1808, 84.— Cooper, Birds 

 Gal., i, 1870, 2G7.— Stev., U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1870, 4G5.— Goues, Am. 

 Nat., v, 1871, 195. — ALLEN, Bui. Mus. Gomp. Zool., 1872, 178. — Cotjes, Key 

 N. A. Birds, 1872, 150, f. 9S.— Snow, Birds Kan., 1872, 11.— Aiken, Proc. 

 Bost, Soc. Nat. Hist, 1872, 202.— Mebriam, U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1872, 

 086 (Idaho). — Bd., Brew., & Ridg., N. A. Birds, ii, 1874, 1G7, pi. xxxii, f. 9, 

 pi. xxxiii, f. 9. — Yarrow, Rep. Orn. Specs., 1871, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 

 35. — Yarrow & Henshaw, Eep. Orn. Specs., 1872, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 

 19.— Henshaw, An. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., xi, 1874, 7.— Id., An. List Birds 

 Utah, 1872, Wheeler's Exped., 1S74, 45.— Id., Rep. Orn. Specs., 1873, 

 Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 04, 82, 121.— Allen, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat, Hist., 

 June, 1S74, 18, 30.— Cotjes, Birds Northwest, 1874, 188. 



Agclaius xanthoccphalus, Woodh., Sitgreave's Exp. Zufii &Col. Eiv., 1854,80. — Newb., 

 P. E. R. Rep., vi, 1857, S7.— Heerm., P. R, R. Rep., x, pt, ii, 1859, 52. 



The large size and bright colors oi' this blackbird, as well as its habit 

 of flocking together at all seasons of the year, render it conspicnons among 

 its allies, and secure it attention wherever found. Its abundance in Utah, 

 Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona is attested by its having been noted 

 everywhere in that region traversed by the survey, and by the many spec- 



