ICTEEU8. 461 



Hyphantes baltimorensis, Scl. P. Z. S. 1857, p. 205 " ; 1859, p. 365 =". 



Icterus baltimorensis, Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 20 '' ; P. Z. S. 1867, p. 279 " ; 1870, p. 836 " ; Salv. 



P.Z. S. 1870, p. 190^' J Ibis, 1872, p. 317'°. 

 Icterus galbula, Nutt. & Eidgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. vi. p. 392"; Check-list N. Am. B. p. 252 "j 



Perez, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1886, p. 149 "'. 



Aurantiacus, capite undique cum gula et dorso superiore nigris ; alis nigris, tectricum majorum apicibus et 

 remigum marginibus externis albis^ tectricibus minoribus et campterio aurantiacis ; subalaribus flavis ; 

 remigum marginibus intemis albis ; oauda nigra, bnjus basi et rectricum lateralium apicibus latis auran- 

 tiacis ; rostro plumbeo, pedibus nigris. Long, tota 7-3, alae 3-8, caudae 2-8, rostri a riotu 0-85, tarsi 0-8. 

 (Descr. maris ex Volcan de Fuego, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 



$ supra griseo-fusca, capite summo et uropygio flavo tinctis ; alis nigricantibus extus albo limbatis ; oauda 

 flavicante-fusca ; subtus albida, pectore et crisso aurantio indutis. (Descr. femin» ex Calobre, Panama. 

 Mus. nostr.) 



(J juv. feminse similis, sed subtus magis aurantius et gula plus minusve nigro variegata. 



Eah. NoBTH America ^ from the Atlantic coast to the high central plains. — Mexico 

 {Beppe^, Pease ^^), Eeal del Monte, Tableland (Bullock^), Valley of Mexico 

 ( White 5), Teziutlan {Perez ^s), State of Vera Cruz (Sumichrast ^^), Jalapa {Salle ^\ 

 de Oca^^, Perez ^^), San Andres Tuxtla {Salle ^^) ; British Honduras {Blancaneaux), 

 Cays between Belize and Omoa {Leyland'^^) ; Guatemala {Velasquez^, Constanda ^®), 

 Vera Paz {Skinner ^^), Choctum, Cahabon, Cohan, Volcan de Fuego, Escuintla, San 

 Pedro Martyr {0. S. & F. D. GJ); Honduras, San Pedro {G. M. Whitely^^); 

 Nicaragua, Blewfields Eiver {WicMam^''), Chon tales {Pelt^^}, Omotepe I. {Fut- 

 ting 31) ; Costa Eica {v. Frantzius ^^), Bebedero, Nicoya {Arce ^), San Jose {Ellen- 

 dorf^^, Carmiol^^), Irazu {Sogers) ; Panama, Chmqai {Bridges ^^), David {Hicks % 

 Bugaba {Arce ^), Calobre {ArcS ^^), Lion Hill {McLeannan ^ ^ i°), Paraiso Station 

 {Hughes '^). — Colombia ^^ ; Cuba i*. 



Throughout Mexico and Central America the Baltimore Oriole is a migratory species, 

 though in the Eio-Grande valley, and probably some distance south of it, some birds 

 remain to breed; in Southern Mexico and in the Tablelands it has frequently been 

 noticed, but it does not extend to any portion of the Pacific coast, at least so far as 

 Mexico is concerned. In Guatemala, however, we observed it on the low-lying lands 

 bordering on the Pacific, but it was much less common than in Vera Paz, especially in 

 the vicinity of Cohan, where the native hunters obtained us many specimens in the 

 winter season in the neighbourhood of the town. Its range southward hardly extends 

 beyond the Isthmus of Panama ; but we have specimens from the Sierra Nevada of Santa 

 Martha, which is, so far as we know, its extreme limit. In Cuba Dr. Gundlach observed 

 specimens in the neighbourhood of Havana and Cardenas, but none of them in adult 

 plumage. In North America its range extends as far north as the fifty-fifth parallel of 

 latitude; and it is common throughout the eastern States as far as the Mississippi 

 river, and more sparingly to the Eocky Mountains ; it is rare, too, in Florida. 



The nest is a pendulous, nearly cylindrical, pouch, hung from the extremity of some 

 branch ; it is constructed of flexible plants, which are woven together so as to form a 



