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lowish; rest of wings, and tail, deep brownish gray or hair brown, 

 with paler edgings; under parts lemon yellow, shaded with olive 

 anteriorly and laterally ; lores blackish. Older specimens are variously 

 intermediate between this plumage and the fully adult livery. 

 Bahamas (islands of Andros and Abaco.) 



Icteriia northropi Allen, Auk, vii, no. 4, Oct., 1890, 344 (Andros Island, Bahamas; 

 coll. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist.).— Northrop, Auk, viii, 1891, 71, pi. 1.— Cory, 

 Auk, viii, 1891, 350 (Abaco I., Bahamas); Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 15, 110, 127, 

 146 (Andros and Abaco islands). 



ICTERUS WAGLERI Sclater. 

 WAGLEK'S ORIOLE. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Head, neck, chest, back, scapulars, wings 

 (except lesser and middle coverts), tail, and upper and under tail- 

 coverts uniform black; rest of plumage rich saffron or cadmium 

 yellow, more or less tinged with chestnut next to black of chest, where 

 the chestnut sometimes forms a distinct band; bill black, with basal 

 portion of mandible bluish gray (pale grayish blue in life?); iris dark 

 brown; legs and feet grayish dusky (bluish gra}^ in life?).' 



Inmature {second year?). — Pileum, hindneck, rump, upper tail- 

 coverts, and lesser wing-coverts plain olivaceous saffron yellow; middle 

 wing-coverts similar at tips, the underlying portion blackish; back 

 and scapulars yellowish olive-green, narrowly streaked with dusky; 

 greater wing-coverts and secondaries dusky, edged with pale yellowish 

 gray (more broadly, the edgings more yellowish, on the former); 

 primaries dusky, narrowly edged with dull whitish ; four middle rectrices 

 dusky ; next pair dusky with outer web mostly olive, edged with saffron 

 yellowish; outermost rectrices dull saffron yellowish, dusky terminally; 

 lores, greater part of malar region, chin, throat, and median portion 

 of chest black; rest of under parts and sides of head (except as 

 described) rich saffron or Indian yellow. 



Younger {^first winter?). — Similar, but without black on chest and 

 throat (which are yellow, like rest of under parts) and upper parts less 

 yellowish, the back, scapulars, and wing-edgings olive-gray (the two 

 former narrowly streaked with black), the pileum and hindneck 

 yellowish olive-gray, very indistinctly streaked with darker. 



Totmg {first plumage). — Above plain rather light olive, slightly 

 browner on back and scapulars, more yellowish olive on head, neck, 

 lower rump, and upper tail-coverts; wings dusky with rather broad 

 olive-buff'y edgings; six middle tail-feathers dusky, edged with light 

 yellowish olive, the lateral rectrices light olive on inner web.s, their 

 outer webs yellowish olive; under parts entirely dull light yellow, 

 faintly shaded with olive across chest and along sides. 



'"Base of under mandible lead color; tarsi and toes dusky olive." (P. L. Jouy, 

 manuscript. ) 



