374 



icterid.t;. 



2. North America (T. M. Brctrer : 

 Tristram Coll.). 



4. North America {D. O. Elliot: 



Tristram Coll.). 

 2. North America (Smiths. Inst.). 



1. North America (Smiths. Inst.). 



1. Nortli America, l-'lth J une (Smiths. 



Imt). 

 8. North America (Ilenshaw Coll.). 



5. Bangor, Maine, 1st June (O. Shep- 



herd) (in nest of Sialia .lialis). 



2. Ithaa, New Yorlf. 25th June 



( 71'. H. I). Scott). 

 1. Massachusetts (Henshaw Coll.). 



3. Princeton, New Jersey { W.E.B.S.). 



1 



Crowley Bequest. 



Crowley Bequest. 



Princeton Univeisity, N.J. 



[E.]. 

 Salvin-Godmau Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



lI'J- . . .. 



Princeton University, N.J. 



LE.]. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Princeton University, N.J. 



[E.]. 

 Princeton Universit}', N.J. 



[E.]. 

 Princeton University, N.J. 



[E.]. 

 Princeton University, N.J. 



[E.]. 

 Crowley Bequest. 



Princeton, 26th May (with -3 egg's 

 of Geothh/pis trichas). 



1. Princeton, liith June ( W.E B.S.). 



2. Princeton, 14th June (with 2 eggs 



oi Icteria viridis). 

 1. Columbus, Ohio (P. M. Whealer: 

 Tristram Cull.) (in nest of 

 Lophophanes bicolor). 



Molothrus obscurus (Gmel.). 

 (Plate XYT. figs. 14 & 18.) 



Molothrus ater oh.^curus, Sennett, Bull. U.S. Oeol. Sf Geoqr. Surv. Terr. 



V. p. 39G (1879) ; Nehrling, Bull. Nntt. Orn. C. vii. p. 166 (1882) ; 



Bidgio. Birds Forth Sf Middle Amer. ii. p. 210 (1902). 

 Molothrus pecoris, Scl. Cat. Birds B. M. xi. p. 333 (1886) [part.]. 

 Molothrus obscurus, Sharpe, lland-l. i-. p. 490 (1009) : JS'ehrk. Kut. 



Eiersamml. p. 342 (1910). 



Four esgs of the Dwarf Cow-bird are similar to those of M. ater, 

 but smaller. They measure respectively : -83 by -62 : -8 by -6 • 

 •75 by -6 ; '75 by -58. 



4. San Antonio, Texas, May (in nests 

 of Tireo belli).. 



W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 



Molothrus bonariensis (Gmd.). 

 Icterus bonariensis, Tkien, Fortpflunz. ges. Vog. tab. xxxvii. fig. 12 (1845- 



Molothrus sericeus, Burmeister, La Plata Beise, ii. p 494 C1861") • Holtx 



J.f. 0. 1870, p. 15, Taf. i. fig. 1. i- v ^ . , 



Molothrus bonariensis, Sol. P.Z. S 1872, p. 862 ; Hudson, P. Z. S. 1874, 



p. 153 ; Scl. Cat. Birds B. M. xi. p. 335 (1886) ; Scl. Sf Buds. 



Argent. Orn. i. p. 72 (1888) ; Holland, Itds, 1892, p. 198; Aplin, 



Ibis, 1894, p. 172; Kehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 100 (1899) ; Eulei; 



Xcv. Mus. Paulista, iv. p. 35 (1900) ; Ilierinq, t. c. p. 220 (19001 ; 



Sharpe, Iland-l. v. ]i. 490 (1909) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p, 342 



(1910) ; C. Grant, Ibis, 1911, p. 103. 



