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Subgenus PENDULINUS ViBiWiOT. 



Penditlimis Vieillot, Analyse, 1816, 33. Type, by subs, desig., Oriolus 

 spurius LiNN^us (A. O. U. Committee, 1886). 



Icterus cucuUatus Swainson. 



Range. — Lower Rio Grande Valley, southern Arizona, and south- 

 ern California south to Honduras. 



a. [Icterus cucullatus cucullatus. Extralimital.] 



b. Icterus cucullatus sennetti Ridoway. Sennett's Oriole. [505.] 



Icterus cucullatus sennetti Ridgway, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., Ill, April, 

 1901, 152. (BrownsvUle, Texas.) 



Range. — Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas, and Tamaulipas, Mexico; 

 winters south of the United States to Morelos. 



c. Icterus cucullatus nelsoni Ridgway. Arizona Hooded Oriole. [505a.] 



Icterus cucullatus nelsoni Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., VIII, 1885, 19. 

 (Tucson, Arizona.) 



Range. — Southwestern California, southern Arizona, southwestern New 

 Mexico and south to Lower California and Tepic; winters south of the United 

 States; casual in central California. 



Icterus spurius (Linnaeus). Orchard Oriole. [506.] 



Oriolus spurius Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, I, 1766, 162. (Carolina.) 



Range. — Eastern North America. Breeds from North Dakota, 

 northwestern Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, southern Ontario, 

 central New York, and Massachusetts south to northern Florida and 

 the Gulf coast to southern Texas, and in Mexico to Oaxaca and 

 Jalisco, and west to central Nebraska and western Kansas; winters 

 from southern Mexico to northern Colombia; casual north to Ver- 

 mont, New Hampshire, Maine, and New Brunswick, and west to 

 Colorado; occasional in southern Florida and Cuba in spring migra- 

 tion. 



Subgenus TPHANTES Vieillot. 



Yphantes Vieillot, Analyse, 1816, 33. Type, by subs, desig., " Baltimore 

 franc. Buff." = Coracias gattnda Linn^us (Gray, 1855). 



