BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 279 



Plendulinm'] solitaris Vieillot, Enc. M6th., ii, 1823, 705 (based on Bastard Oriole 

 Cateaby, Nat. Hist. Carolina). 



Pendulinvs viridis Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., v, 1816, 301. 



Pendulinus nigricoUis Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., v, 1816, 318. 



Oriolus mutaius Wilson, Am. Orn., i, 1808, 64, pi. 4, figs. 1-4. 



Xanthornmaffinis Lawr-ej^ce, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., v, 1852, 113 (Eio Grande, 

 Texas; coll. G. N. Lawrence). — Woodhouse, Rep. Sitgreaves' Expl. Zuni 

 and Col. R., 1853, 79 (Texas).— Baied, in Stansbury's Rep. Gt. Salt Lake, 

 1853, 332 (Rio Grande).— Kenneely, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., iv, pt. vi, 

 1857, 10 (75 m. w. of Albuquerque, New Mexico). — Heeemann, Rep. Pacific 

 R. R. Surv., X, no. 1, 1859, 17 (San Antonio, Texas, breeding).— Cassin, 

 Proc. Ac. Nat. Sei. Phila., 1860, 140 (Rio Atrato, Colombia). 



Idems affinis Scl.ater and Salvin, Proe. Zool. Soe. Lond., 1859, 20 (Guate- 

 mala).— Salvin and Sclater, Ibis, 1860, 34 (Duenas and Coban, Guatemala, 

 July, numerous!).— Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 130 (Jalapa) ; Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. Lond., 1864, 175 (Valley of Mexico). 



Bananivorus affinis Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 301 (Cordova, Vera 

 Cruz); 1859, 365 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz). 



Pendulinus affinis Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., Apr., 1867, 61 (monogr.). 



[Icterus spuriusl Var. affinis CouES, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 158. 



Icterus spurius . . . var. affinis Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 215a. 



Icterus spurius var. affinis Lawrence, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 1876, 24 

 (Chihuitan, Santa Efigenia, and Teliuantepec City, Oaxaca); Mem. Bost. 

 Soc. N. H., ii, 1874, 279 (Mazatlan; plains of Colima).— Merrill, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., i, 1879, 135 (Fort Brown, Texas, breeding). 



Icterus spurius affinis Coues and Sennett, Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., 

 V, 1879, 397 (Lometa, Texas, breeding).— Coues, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, 

 no. 325.— Nehrling, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 167 (s. e. Texas, 

 breeding; descr. nests). 



[Icterus spurius] b. affinii Coues, Birds N. W., 1874, 193 (in synonymy). 



I[cteriis1 s[purius'] affinis Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 408. 



ICTERUS BONANA (Linnaeus). 

 MARTINiaUE ORIOLE. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Head, neck, chest, and uppei- breast rich very 

 dark chestnut or bay; back, .scapulars, wings (except lesser and middle 

 coverts), and tail black; lesser and middle wing-coverts, lower rump, 

 and under parts of body (posterior to upper breast) deep orange-rufous 

 or rufous-tawny, deepest on lower breast, where sometimes almost 

 chestnut; upper part of rump, thighs, and under wing-coverts orange- 

 ochraceous or dull orange-yellow; upper and under tail-coverts 

 orange-rufous or rufous-tawny, the longer feathers tipped with black; 

 bill black, the basal portion of mandible pale bluish gray; legs and 

 feet grayish dusky (bluish gray or grayish blue in life?). 



Young. — Similar to adults, but colors duller and plumage of looser 

 texture. 



Adult male. — Length (skin), 182.9; wing, 86.9; tail, 83.8; culmen, 

 from base, 8.1; tarsus, 22.9; middle toe, 15.5.' 



Adult fetnale.—ljength (skin), 193; wing, 77;^ tail, 84.6; culmen, 



' One specimen. ^ Unreliable measurement (primaries molting) . 



