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315. Icterus melanocephalus audnbonii. Audubon's Oriole. 



Lower Rio Grande, casually north to San Antonio, resident. 



316. Icterus parisorum. Scott's Oriole. 



Trans-Pecos region (El Paso: Pecos River [Ridgway]). Sum- 

 mer resident. Orioles supposed to be of this species were ob- 

 served by our party in the Chisos Mountains in the early part of 

 May, 1905. 



317. Iciems cucullatus sennettii. Sennett's Hooded Oriole. 



Lower Rio Grande (Cameron and Hidalgo counties) northwest to 

 Laredo. Summer resident. 



318. Icterus spurius. Orchard Oriole. 



Summer resident of the eastern half of the State, breeding from the 

 northern boundary south to the Rio Grande, west to San Angelo, 

 Laredo, etc. Mr. William Winston and the writer found 58 nests of 

 this species at Waco on the 21 day of May, 1897, nearly all of them 

 in mesquite trees. On another occasion I found a female, incubating 

 her four eggs in an old mockingbird nest in a Bois d' Arc hedge. Her 

 own domicile had probably been destroyed by boys soon after its 

 completion and she was compelled to make shift. 



319. Icterus galbula. Baltimore Oriole. 



Eastern Texas, migrant, not common. Breeds in the extreme north- 

 eastern section of the State. At Waco an exceedingly rare migrant, 

 only five specimens being noted in twenty years. Cooke records it as 

 a migrant at Gainesville and Bonham. ,. 



320. Icterus bullockii. Bullock's Oriole. 



Abundant summer resident of the western and southwestern sections 

 of the State. East to Refugio and San Antonio, breeding in both 

 localities. Rare spring visitor at Waco, not known to breed in the 

 vicinity. On the southern plains this is one of the most abundant 

 summer birds. Near Midland, we found six nests in one small grove of 

 fifteen trees. Nests were found in mesquite and cat-claw bushes only 

 a few feet from the groimd and in some cases within a dozen feet of 

 an occupied nest of Swainson's Hawk. 



321. Euphagns carolinus. Rusty Blackbird. 



Winters on the eastern coast and in the interior districts of extreme 

 Eastern Texas. South to Harris county (Nehrling). 



