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ZOOLOGY— BIRDS. 



to others of its allies in the art of construction. Captain Bendire, who found 

 this bird breeding near Tucson, Ariz., gives the following dimensions of a 

 nest : Inner diameter, three inches ; depth inside, same ; outside diameter, 

 from four to five and a half inches ; depth, about four. He says the eggs 

 are usually three, sometimes four, in number. They are of a pale bluish- 

 white ground, spotted with dark-lilac and umber-brown about the larger end. 



No. 



Sex. 



207 



<?jun. 



20S 



3 ad. 



209 



3 ad. 



2J7 



3 ad. 



238 



<?jun. 



239 



9jun. 



3S° 



3 ad. 



37' 



9 ad. 



37^ 



?jun. 



394 



9jun. 



Locality. 



Date. 



Near Camp Grant, Ariz 



do 



Camp Grant, Ariz. 



do 



do 



do 



Camp Bowie, Ariz 



do 



do 



do 



July 27, 1S74 



do 



do 



July 30, 1S74 



do 



do 



Aug. 9, 1S74 

 Aug. 12, 1S74 



do 



Aug. 13, 1874 



Collector. 



H. W. Henshaw 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



Dr. J. T. Rothrock.... 



H. W. Henshaw 



do 



do 



Wing 



Tail. 



3-55 

 3-54 

 3-5S 



3- 6 7 

 3—4 



3. So 

 3-77 

 3-9S 



4-°3 

 3.20 



Bill. 



o. So 



0.77 

 0.77 



Tarsus. 



0.S7 

 0.S2 

 0.S7 



0.S4 

 0-73 



0.S4 

 0.S5 



ICTERUS BDLLOCKI (Swains.). 



Bullock's Oriole. 



Xanthornus bullooMi, Swains., Syn. Mes. Birds, Taylor's Phil. Mag., i, 1827, 430. 



Icterus buUocldi, Newb., P. R. R. Rep., vi, 1857, 87.— Bd., Birds N. A., 1858, 540. — TJ., 

 U. S. & Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, Birds, 20.— Xantus, Proc. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 192 (Fort Tejou, Cal.).— HENRY, Proc. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci. Phila., 1859, 107 (New Mexico).— Coop. & Suckl., P. R. R. Rep., xii, 

 pt. ii, 1800, 209.— Hayd., Trans. Am. Phil. Soc, xii, 1802, 170.— Coues, Proc. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1800, 91 (Fort Whipple, Ariz.). — Cooper, Birds Cal., 

 i, 1870, 273. — Coues, Am. Nat., v, 1871, 078 (biography).— Allen, Bui. 

 Mus. Comp. Zool., 1872, 178 (Ogden, Utah).— Coues, Key N. A. Birds, 1872, 

 158, f. 100. — Snow, Birds Kan., 1872, 11.— Hold., Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. 

 Hist., 1872, 203.— Bd., Brew., & RiDG., N. A. Birds, ii, 1874, 199, pi. xxxiv, 

 figs. 3, 7. — Yarrow & IIensuaw, Rep. Orn. Specs., 1872, Wheeler's Exped., 

 1874, 19. — Yarrow, Rep. Orn. Specs., 1871, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 35. — 

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

 Utah, 1S72, Wheeler's Exped., 1S74, 40.— Id., Rep. Orn. Specs., 1S73, Wheel- 

 er's Exped., 1874, 05, 82. — Allen, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., June, 1874, 

 10, 30.— Coues, Birds Northwest, 1S74, 195. 



Yphantes bullockii, IIeerm., P. R. R. Rep., x, pt. ii, 1S59, 52. 



Icterus ( Yphantes) bullocldi, Merriam, U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1872, 085 (Utah ; Idaho). 



A single individual was seen at Provo, Utah, and one shortly afterward 

 in middle of August in the Wahsatch Mountains. Probably migrates early, 



