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Pendulinus prosthemelas Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1867, 56 (monogr.).— 



Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 104 (Tuourriqui, Costa Rica).— 



Frantzius, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 302 (Costa Rica). 

 [Pendulinus] lessoni Bonapaete, Consp. Av., i, June 15, 1850, 432 (Mexico; based 



on Troupiale noire A ventre jaune Lesson, Traits d'Orn., 1831, no. 7). 

 Pendulinus lessoni Pucheran, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 66 (crit.). 

 X[anthomus'] lessoni Cabanis,Mus. Hein., i, Aug., 1851, 184 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz). 

 (f) Icterus gualanensis Underwood, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club,"no. Iv, June 30, 1898, p. 



lix (Gualan, Guatemala). 



ICTERUS HYPOMELAS (Bonaparte). 

 CTJBAN ORIOLE. 



Adults {sexes alike). — General color uniform black; lesser and mid- 

 dle wing-coverts, rump, and thighs, lemon 3^6110 w; under wing-coverts 

 and axillars slightly paler (canary) yellow; shorter under tail-coverts; 

 and tips (more or less extensive) of longer under tail-coverts duller 

 (gallstone or saffron yellow); bill black, the mandible bluish gray (pale 

 grayish blue in life) basally: legs and feet grayish dusky (bluish gray 

 in life?). 



Immature {second year ?). — Head and neck dull olive-green becoming 

 more or less dusky on fore part of head, especially from lores to chin, 

 inclusive (whole throat, chin, malar region, and lores sometimes uni- 

 form black); back and scapulars dull grayish oliA-e-green, the feathers 

 indistinctly darker centrally: rump more yellowish olive-green, more 

 yellow on lower portion; lesser wing-coverts yellowish olive-green; 

 middle coverts more yellowish, .with a darker mesial streak; rest of 

 wings, and tail, grayish dusky with edgings of pale olive-grayish or 

 grayish buffy; under parts, except chin (and sometimes throat) plain 

 olive-green, duller anteriorly, brighter or more yellowish posteriorly. 

 [Older specimens variously intermediate in coloi'ation between this 

 plumage and the fully adult livery.] 



Adult «iffife.— Length (skins), 186.7-198.1 (190.8); wing, 94.2-96 

 (95.3); tail, 8i.3-91.9 (88.6); culmen, from base, 20.3-22.4 (21.6); 

 depth of bill at base, 8.1-9.1 (8.4); tarsus, 23.9-24.4 (24.1); middle 

 toe, 15-17.3 (16.8).^ 



Advlt female.— luQug^ (skins), 176.5-198.1 (186.7); wing, 89.^94.7 

 (91.9); tail, 81.3-92.7 (86.9); culmen, from base, 21.1-22.1 (21.6); 

 depth of bill at base, 8.1-8.4 (8.1); tarsus, 22.9-24.4 (23.6); middle 

 toe, 16-17.6 (16.8).' 



Island of Cuba, Greater Antilles. 



Icterus dominicensis (not Oriolus dominicensis Linnseus) Vigors, Zool. Journ., iii, 

 1828, 441 (Cuba).— Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., vii, 1860, 268 (Cuba; 

 crit.). — Albrecht, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 212 (Cuba).— Sclatek, Cat. Am. 

 Birds, 1862, 131, part (Cuba). 



1 Seven specimens. 



