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Mus. Comp. Zool., iii, 1872, 178 (Kansas, Utah); Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., 

 i, 1868, 498 (Iowa), 518 (n. Illinois).— Codes, Am. Nat., v, 1871, 195-200 

 (biography); Check List, 1873, no. 213; 2d ed., 1882, no. 319; Birds N. W., 



1874, 188.— CooPEK, Orn. Cal., 1870, 267.— Snow, Birds Kansas, 1873, 8 

 (e. Kansas, breeding). — Baied, Beeweh, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, 

 ii, 1874, 167, pi. 32, fig. 9; pi. 33, fig. 9.— Lawrence, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., 

 ii, 1874, 281 (Mazatlan, Sinaloa).— Newton, Man. N. H. Greenland, 1875, 99 

 (Nenortalik, 1 spec, Sept. 2, 1820).— Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xvii, 



1875, 442 (Massachusetts, accidental).— Ridgway, Orn. 40th Parallel, 1877, 502 

 (Sacramento, California; localities in Nevada and Utah; habits, etc.); Nom. 

 N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 260.— Sennbtt, Bull. U. S. Gaol, and Geog. Surv. 

 Terr., iv, 1878, 24 (Hidalgo, s. Texas, winter resid.). — Merrill, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., i, 1879, 133 (Fort Brown, Texas, winter).— Gibbs, Bull. U. S. Geol. 

 and Geog. Surv. Terr., v, 1879, 487 (s. w. Michigan, breeding?).— Merkiam, 

 Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 246 (Godbout, prov. Quebec, 1 spec, Sept. 

 1878).— Maynaed, Birds E. N. Am., 1881, 137.— Belding, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., V, 1883, 546 (San Jos6 del Cabo, Lower California).— Loomis, Auk, i, 

 1884, 293 (Chester, South Carolina, 1 spec, Apr. 18, 1884); ii, 1885, 192 

 (do.).— Seton, Auk, ii, 1885, 334 (Toronto, Ontario, several records).— 

 Fbilden, Ibis, 1889, 489 (Barbados, Lesser Antilles). — Coey, Cat. Birds 

 W. I., 1892, 110, 146 (Cuba; Barbados). 



[Xanthocephalua} icterocephalus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 156.— Sclateb 

 and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 37.— Cory, List Birds W. I., 1885, 14 

 (Cuba). 



Xlanthocephalm] icterocephalus Nelson, Bull. Essex Inst, viii, 1876, 111 (n. e. 

 Illinois, summer resid. ). — Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 404. 



Agelaus longipes Swainson, Philos. Mag., new ser., i, no. 6, June, 1827, 436 (table- 

 land of Mexico; coll. Bullock Mus.). 



Xanthocephalus longipes Sclatbe, Ibis, 1884, 14 (monogr. ; Presidio, near Mazat- 

 lan, etc.) ; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 350. — Salvin and Godman, Biol. 

 Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1887, 455. 



Pslarocolius} perspidllatusW A.aLER, Isis, 1829, 753 (ex Icterus perspicUlatus Lichten- 

 stein, manuscript). 



[Xanthocephalus'] perspicillatus Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 431. 



Ageisms perspicillatus Reinhabdt, Ibis, 1861, 7 (Nenortalik, Greenland; 1 spec, 

 Sept. 2, 1820) . 



Icterus frenatus Lichtenstbin, Isis, 1843, 60 (Greenland). — Baird, in Stansbury'a 

 Rep. Gt. Salt Lake, 1852, 332 (Greenland).— Rbinhardt, Vid. Med. for 

 1853 (1854), 82 (Greenland). 



Genus LBISTES Vigors. 



Leistes Vigors, Zool. Journ., ii, no. vi, July, 1825, 191. (Type, Oriolus americanus 



Gmelin, = Emberiza militaris Linnseus.) 

 Pedotribes^ Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, Sept. 10, 1851, 191. (Type, Oriolus gmm- 



ensis Linnaeus, = Emberiza militaris Linnseus. ) 



Rather small terrestrial Icteridee with short conical bill, short tail, 

 rather long, pointed wings, and long legs, the under parts with more 

 or less of red. 



Bill much shorter than head, conical, compressed, acute, its depth 

 at base much more than one-half the length of culmen (nearly equal 

 to distance from nostril to tip of maxilla), its basal width more than 



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