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AdAilt ma/«.— Length (skins), 210.8-229.9 (222.8); wing, 9T.8-I13.8 

 (104.9); tail, 101.1-122.2 (108.2); culmen, from base, 23.4-25.4: (24.6); 

 depth of bill at base, 8.1-9.1 (8.6); tarsus, 24.1-25.9 (24.9); middle toe, 

 17.5-20.3 (18.3).' 



Adult female.— Ijf^v^gt'o. (skins), 194.3-223.5 (207); wing, 96.5-100.1 

 (98); tail, 79.5-104.4 (93.5); culmen, from base, 22.9-24.4 (23.6); depth 

 of bill at base, 8.1-8.4; tarsus, 23.4-25.1 (24.4); middle toe, 17.5- 

 18.3 (18).' 



From northern Mexico, in states of Sonora (Oposura, Alamos), 

 Chihuahua (near Batopilas), Coahuila (Saltillo), and Nuevo Leon (Dos 

 Arroyos), southward over nearly the whole of Mexico (except Yucatan) 

 to Guatemala (Duenas; Calderas; Volcan de Fuego; San Geronimo; 

 Hacienda Chancol, etc.). 



Ps\_a,Tocolmi\ flavigasler (not Pendulinus flavigasUr Vieillot, 1816) Waglek, Isis, 



1829, 756 (Mexico). 

 Icterus dominicenm (not Oriolus dominicensis Linnfeus) Swainson, Philos. Mag., 



n. s., i, 1827, 436 (Temascaltepec, Mexico). 

 [Pendulinus] dominicensis Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 432. 

 Icterus wagleri Sclatek, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 7 (Mexico; coll. P. L. 

 Sclater), 1859, 381 (VillaAlta, Oaxaca); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 131 (Mexico), 

 Ibis, 1883, 362 (monogr.); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 372 (Oaxaca; 

 Presidio, near Mazatlan; Dnefias, Calderas, and Volcan de Fuego, Guate- 

 mala). — Baikd, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv.; ix, 1858, 545 (Saltillo, Coahuila; 

 Guatemala); ed. 1860 (Birds N. Am.), atlas, pi. 61, fig. 2; Bep. U. S. and 

 Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. 2, 1859, 19, pi. 19, fig. 2 (Saltillo, Coahuila); Cat. 

 N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 412. — Sclater and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 20 (Duenas, 

 Guatemala). — Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 468 (Volcan de Fuego; descr. nest).— 

 FiNscH, Abh. Nat. Ver. Brem. 1870, 338 (Mazatlan). — Baied, Brewer, and 

 RiDQWAY, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 188, footnote, pi. 35, fig. 2.— Law- 

 rence, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., ii, 1874, 279 (Mazatlan; Guadalajara; Tepic; 

 habits; song). — Ridgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 267. — Salvin, Cat. 

 Strickland Coll., 1882, 263 (Guatemala).— Ferrari-Perez, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., ix, 1886, 150 (Tecali and Huehuetlan, Puebla, .Tan., Feb.) — Jouy, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, 1893, 781 (Barranca Ibarra, Jalisco). — Salvin 

 and GoDMAN, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1887, 466. 



' Nineteen specimens from Mexico. 

 ^Four specimens from Mexico. 



Specimens from eastern Mexico, western Mexico, and Guatemala average, respec- 

 rively, as follows: 



