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from base (two specimens), 21.8-22.1; depth of bill at base, 8.9; 

 tarsus (two specimens), 21.8-23.1 (22.4); middle toe, 15.7.' 

 Island of Martinique, Lesser Antilles; Island of Guadeloupe?? 



[Orioliis} banana Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766, 162 (based on Icterus minor, 

 niduni suspendens, Sloane, Jam., ii, 299, pi. 257, fig. 1) . — Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 

 1788, 390.— Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 181. 



Icterus bonana Daddin, Traits' d'Orn., ii, 1800, 332.— Taylor, Ibis, 1864, 167 (Mar- 

 tinique). — Lawrence, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1879, 355 (Martinique; 

 habits). — OoEY, Auk, iii, 1886, 215 (synonymy; diagnosis); iv, 1887, 96 (Mar- 

 tinique); Birds W. I., 1889, 102; Oat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 15, 110, 133 (Mar- 

 tinique). — Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 368 (Martinique). 



^Icterus'] bonana Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 36. — Cohy, List 

 Birds W. I., 1885, 13. 



Icterus bonarne SchAimi, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 131 ("Antilles"). 



Pendulinus banana Vieillot, Nouv. Diet, d' Hist. Nat, v, 1816, 316. 



[^Pendulinus] bonana Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 432. 



Pendulinus bonana Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila.,. Apr., 1867, 54 (monogr). 



Psarocolius bonana Wagleb, Syst. Av., 1827, Psarocolius, sp. 19. 



X.\_anthornus] bonana Cabanis, Mus. Hein, 1, 1851, 183 (Martinique). 



(?) Pendulinus rufiga^ter YiEiLLOT, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., v, 1816, 321 (" Am^r- 

 ique m^ridionale " '). — Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1867, 55 (monogr.; 

 Guadeloupe). 



(?) P[endulinus] rufigaster Vieillot, Enc. M^th., ii., 1823, 708. 



(?) [Bananivorus] rufigaster Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., 1823, 834 (Guadeloupe). 



ICTERUS MELANOCEPHALUS MELANOCEPHALUS (Wagler). 

 BIACE-HEASES ORIOLE. 



Adult male.- — Head, upper part of neck, median portion of upper 

 chest, wings (except lesser and part of middle coverts), and tail black, 

 the tertials usually more or less edged with whitish or pale brownish 

 gray; lower hindneck, back, scapulars, rump, and upper tail-coverts 

 dull saflfron yellow or wax yellow, more or less tinged with olive- 

 green, the scapulars partly black; sides of neck, lesser wing-coverts, 

 and under parts (except as described) deep lemon or gamboge yellow, 

 sometimes (though rarely) tinged with orange; middle wing-coverts 

 mostly black; bill black, with basal portion of mandible bluish gray 

 (pale grajash blue in life ?) ; legs and feet grayish horn-color (bluish 

 gray in life?); length (skins), 193-213.4 (205.5); wing, 98.5-98.3 (96.5); 

 tail, 90.2-102.4 (96.5); culmen, from base, 22.4-23.4 (22.9); depth of 

 bill at base, 10.4-10.9 (10.7); tarsus, 24.9-27.4 (26.2); middle toe, 

 17-18.5 (17.8).' 



^ One specimen. 



^ There is a verymaterial discrepancy betweenVieillot's original description and the 

 later one by Bonaparte. Vieillot describes his P. rufigaster as having the belly and 

 posterior parts ( " a le ventre et les parties posterieures '-') deep russetor rusty (" roux 

 ardent " ) , the rest of the plumage black. Bonaparte, although apparently describing 

 Vieillot's type, gives the color of the head, neck, and breast as chestnut — iu short, 

 describes a bird (said to be from Guadeloupe) very like/, bonana. Possibly "partes 

 posterieures ' ' in Vieillot's description is an error ( lapsus pennse) for partes anterieures. 



' Six specimens. 



