318 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



[Icterus hullocki] var. hulloeki Baird, Brewer, and Eidgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, 



ii, 1874, 184. 

 [Icterus] hullocki Solater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 36. 

 /[cterus] hullocki Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 409.-^Eidgway, Man. 



N. Am. Birds, 1887, 378. 

 PsarocoKus auricolUs Maximilian, Keise Nordam., i, 1839, 367 (Fort Pierre, 



Soutli Dakota; type in coll. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., New York City). — Baibd, 



in Stansbury's Rep. Gt. Salt Lake, 1852, 332 (Missouri E.). 



ICTERUS ABEILLEI (Lesson). 

 ABEILLE'S ORIOLE. 



Similar to I. hdloGhii, but adult male with rump, upper tail-coverts, 

 sidey, flanks, auricular region, and sides of neck black; adult female 

 and immature male darker and grayer than those of I. huUocMi, espe- 

 cially on sides of head. 



Adult male. — Above uniform deep black, from forehead to upper 

 tail-coverts, inclusive; lores, auricular region, anterior portion of 

 malar region, chin and median portion of throat, sides of neck, sides, 

 and flanks uniform black; rest of under parts, including malar region 

 (except extreme anterior portion), and under wing-coverts yellow, 

 more or less inclining to orange anteriorly; a more or less distinct 

 supraloral line of orange-yellow; wings black, relieved by a large 

 white patch covering middle and greater coverts (inner webs of the 

 latter black) and broad white edgings to innermost secondaries, the 

 longer primaries more narrowly edged with white or pale gray; tail 

 yellow, the middle pair of i-ectrices mostly black and the rest with 

 more or less of black on terminal portion; maxilla blackish, mandible 

 bluish with dusky tip; legs and feet (in dried skins) dusky horn color. 



Adult female. — Above gray, tinged with olive-yellowish on the 

 head, the feathers of the back darker centrally; an indistinct dusky 

 median stripe on chin and throat; sides of throat, malar region, and 

 chest yellowish; sides, flanks, and under tail-coverts grayish, the latter 

 tinged with yellow; abdomen and median portion of the breast dull 

 whitish; wings dusky, the remiges and greater coverts edged with 

 light gray, the latter (except the innermost) and middle coverts broadly 

 tipped with white; tail yellowish olive. 



Immature male. — Similar to adult female, but yellow of chest, etc., 

 brighter, and black throat-stripe usually more distinct. 



Adult male.— Length, (skins), 177.8-188 (181.9); wing, 102.9-106.7 

 (104.6); tail, 80-86.4 (83.6); exposed c'ulmen, 17.3-18.8 (17.8); depth of 

 bill at base, 8.6-10.2 (9.4); tarsus, 23.1-25.4 (24.1); middle toe, 

 15.5-16.6 (16).' 



Adult f&niale.—'LQXigth.{s^m),VJ6.^; wing, 96.5; tail, 79.2; exposed 

 culmen, 17.8; depth of bill at base, 8.9; tarsus, 25.1; middle toe, 15.2.' 



' Five specimens. ^ One specimen. 



