BIED8 OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 283 



[Icterus melanocephalun] a. Subsp. auduboni Sclatbr, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 



1886, 375, in list of specimens (Matamoras). 

 [Xanlhornus} melanocephalus (not Psarocolius welanocephalus Wagler) Bonaparte, 



Consp. Av., i, 1850, 434, part. 

 Icterus melanocephalus Baird, in Stansbury's Rep. Gt. Salt Lake, 1852, 332 



(Texas).— Cassin, Illustr. Birds Cal., Tex., etc., 1854, 137 (not pi. 21,=true 



I. melanocephalus). ScjuATER, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858, 97, part (Orizaba, 



Very Cruz; crit. ). 



ICTERUS PECTORALIS PECTORALIS (Wagler). 

 SPOTTED-BREASTED ORIOLE. 



Adults {sexes alike).— hoves, triangular postocular spot, anterior 

 portion of malar region, chin, throat, and median portion of chest 

 deep black; rest of head and neck rich cadmium orange; back and 

 scapulars uniform deep black; wings (except lesser and middle coverts) 

 and tail black, the former relieved by broad white edgings to tertials 

 (producing a conspicuous wedge-shaped stripe in closed wing) and, 

 usually, by more or less of white at base of second to seventh pri- 

 maries; lateral rectrices more or less broadly margined terminally 

 with dull grayish; lesser and middle wing-coverts, whole rump, upper 

 tail-coverts, and under parts (except chin, throat, and median portion 

 of chest) rich orange-yellow sr orange, the sides of breast and chest 

 (.sometimes median portion of the former also) marked with triangular 

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

 (pale grayish blue in life); legs and feet dusky grayish (bluish gray or 

 grayish blue in life?); length (skins), 199.7-238.8 (217.9); wing, 100.3- 

 111.3 (104.6); tail, 96.6-109.2 (102.1); culmen, from base, 21.3-24.4 

 (22.9); depth of bill at base, 9.1-9.7 (9.4); tarsus, 2,5.7-28.2 (26.9); 

 middle toe, 18.3-20.3 (18.5).' 



Southern Mexico, in States of Oaxaca (Putla, Juchitan, Santa 

 Eiigenia, etc.) and Chiapas (Tonala), Guatemala (Vera Paz, Retal- 

 huleu, Escuintla, Savana Grande, San Geronimo, etc.) and Salvador 

 (Acajutla). 



Ps[arocolius'} pecioralis '^ AGhKR, Isis, 1829, 755 (Mexico). 



[Iclerusi pedoraZis Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 435. — Sclater and Salvin, 

 Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 36, .part (Mexico; Guatemala).— Des Murs, Icon. 

 Orn., 1845-46, pi. 10 (Mexico). 



Icterus pectoralis ScLATB-R,' Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857,205 (Mexico); Ibis, 1883, 

 372, part (monogr. ) ; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 385, part (Putla, Oaxaca; 

 Tonala, Chiapas; Savana Grande, San Geronimo, and Retalhuleu, Guate- 

 mala) . — Sclater and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 19 (Vera Paz, Guatemala). — Cassin, 

 Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1867, 48, part (monogr.; Coban, Guatemala).— 

 Lawrence, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 1876, 23 (Juchitan and Santa 

 Eflgenia, Oaxaca).— Salvin, Cat. Strickland Coll., 1882,264 (Guatemala).— 

 Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1887, 474, part (Mexican 

 references and localities; Escuintla, etc., Guatemala; Acajutla, Salvador). — 

 Lantz, Trans. Kansas Ac. Sci. for 1896-97 (1899), 222 (Palin, Guatemala). 



Icterus guttulatus Lafresnaye, Mag. de Zool., 2" s^r., an. 1844, Ois., pp. 1-4, pi. 

 52 (M exico?). 



' Seven specimens, of which only one is sexed. 



