288 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Adult male in winter — Similar to the summer plumage, but the 

 orange or orange-yellow duller, especially on upper parts, where more 

 or less obscured hya. tinge or wash of olivaceous; scapulars and inter- 

 scapulars margined terminally with light olive or olive-grayish: ter- 

 tials more broadly margined with white. 



Adult female. — Pileum, hindneck, rump, upper tail-coverts, and 

 tail yellowish olive, the occiput and nape tinged with dull brownish 

 gra3^; back and scapulai's dull brownish gray; lesser wing-coverts 

 brownish gray, more dusky centrally; rest of wings dusky, with pale 

 brownish gray edgings, the middle coverts broadly tipped with white, 

 and pale edgings to greater coverts becoming white terminally; beneath 

 dull ochre-yellow, paler on abdomen, strongly washed with grayish 

 on sides and flanks. 



Tmmature male (second year?). — Similar to adult female, but lores, 

 anterior portion of malar region, chin, and throat black. 



Adidt ma^e.— Length (skins), 180.3-193 (1S7.2); wing, 83.3-86.1 

 (84.8); tail, 89.7-98 (9J:); culmen, from base, 19.6-20.8 (20.1); depth 

 of bill at base, 7.6-8.1 (7.9); tarsus, 21.8-23.6 (22.6); middle toe, 

 15.5-16.8 (16).' 



Adult female.— Ijdx^g^ (skins), 185.4-194.3 (189.7); wing, 80.3-81.5 

 (81); tail, 85.9-90.2 (87.4); culmen, from base, 19.8; depth of bill at 

 base, 7.4-7.9 (7.6); tarsus, 22.4-23.1 (22.6); middle toe, 15.2-15.7 

 (15.5).' 



Eastern portion of Mexican plateau and Atlantic lowlands, from 

 States of Nuevo Leon (Monterey, near Guajuco, Linares, etc.) and 

 southern Tamaulipas (La Cima, Alta Mira, etc.), southwestward 

 through States of San Luis Potosi (Valles), Mexico (Temascaltepec, 

 Amecameca, etc.), Guanajuato (Moro Leon), Morelos (Titela del Vol- 

 can) to Jalisco (San Sebastian, March; Barranca Ibarra, April 21; 

 Zapotlan, December) and Colima (plains of Colima, January). 



Icterus cucullatus Swainson, Philoa. Mag., new ser., i, 1827, 436 (Temascaltepec, 

 Mexico, Mexico).— ScLATEK, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1856, 301 (Cordova, 

 Vera Cruz); (?) 1864, 175 (Valley of Mexico); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 132 

 (Mexico) ; Ibis, 1883, 364, part (monogr. ) ; Cat. BirdsBrit. Mus., xi, 1886, 376, 

 part.— (?) ScLATER and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 20 (Belize, British Honduras).— 

 (?) Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 466 (Belize).— (?) Lawrence, Am. Lye. N. Y., vii, 

 1860, 267 (Cuba; crit. ).—(?) Gund],ach, Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, i, 1866, 

 286; Journ. fiir Orn., 1874, 127 (Cuba): Orn. Cuba, 1893, 96.— Sumicheast, 

 Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 553 (tierra caliente, Vera.Cruz).— (?) Duges, 

 La Naturaleza, i, 1868, 139 (Guanajuato).— Lawrence, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., 

 ii., 1874, 279, part (plains of Colima, Jan.). — Baird, Brewer, and Ridg- 

 wav. Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 193, part.— (?) Cory, List Birds W. L, 

 1885, 13; Auk, iii, 1886, 217 (Cuba); Birds W. I., 1889, 104; Cat. W.I. 

 Birds, 1892, 110 (Cuba).— Ferrari-Perez, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 

 150 (Chietla and Atlixco, Puebla).— Salvin and Godman, Biol. Oentr.- 

 Am., Aves, i, 1887, 471, part— Jouy, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, 1893, 781 

 (Barranca Ibarra, Jalisco). 



' Seven specimens. ^ Three specimens. 



