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Cruz ; and Sumichrast includes it amongst the birds of the temperate and alpine regions 

 of the latter State. It breeds, he says, in the temperate region, and is found as high as 

 between 5000 and 6000 feet above the sea in the neighbourhood of Orizaba, and at 

 even higher altitudes in the plateau. 



Mr. Scott has recently given a good account of his observations on the species in the 

 Santa Catalina Mountains in Arizona, where he found it breeding, and where he 

 obtained several nests. These were usually placed in a species of Yucca (Yucca brac- 

 cata), and carefully hidden under the half-dead and dry leaves that hung down close to 

 the stem of the plant. He describes the nest as sewn to the leaves and as partly 

 pendent. The nests are composed of fibre of the Yucca and fine grasses, and lined with 

 finer grass and threads of cotton waste. The eggs, he says, are bluish white, with 

 chocolate-brown and lighter lilac-brown spots, chiefly at the larger end. 



c'. Cauda nigra alho stricte terminata. 



5. Icterus spurius. 



Oriolus spurius, Linn. S. N. i. p. 162 ^. 



Icterus spurius, Bp. P. Z. S. 1837, p. 116'; Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, p. 380'; Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xi. 

 p. 366*; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 331 '; viii. p. 176 "; Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1864, 

 p. 353 ' ; 1870, p. 837 ' ; Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. i. p. 553 ' ; Baird, Brew., & 

 Eidgw. N. Am. B. ii. p. 190"; Coues, B. N. W. p. 192"; Gundl. Orn. Cub. p. 96"; Salv. 

 Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 262"; Nutt. & Ridgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. vi. p. 392". 



Xantkornus spurius, Cab. J. f. Orn. 1861, p. 8^°; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 104" ; Frantz. J. 

 f. Orn. 1869, p. 303". 



Pendulinus spurius, Cass. Pr. Ac. Phil. 1867, p. 61 ". 



Xanthornus affinis, Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. v. p. 113"; Cass. Pr. Ac. Phil. 1860, p. 140 "°. 



Icterus affinis, Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 20"; Ibis, 1860, p. 34 '^ Scl. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 175 ". 



Pendulinus affinis, Cass. Pr. Ac. Phil. 1867, p. 61 ^. 



Bananivorus affinis, Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 301 "'; 1859, p. 365 ^\ 



Icterus spurius, var. affinis, Lawr. Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 24"; Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. 

 ii. p. 279^ 



Oriolus varius, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 390 ''. 



Icterus varius, juv., Licht. Preis-Verz. mex. Vog. p. 1 ; J. f. Orn. 1863, p. 56 '". 



Supra niger, tectricibus alarum minoribus et dorso postico castaneis ; alls nigris, remigibus et tectricibus mediia 

 anguste sordide albo limbatis ; subtus castaneus, gutture toto nigro ; subalaribus ventre conooloribus ; Cauda 

 nigra, rectrionm apicibus anguste albido terminatis ; rostro et pedibus nigris. Long, tota 6-3, alae 3-0, 

 caudse 2-75, rostri a rictu 0-7, tarsi 0-8. (Desor. maris ex Eio de la Paaion, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 



$ supra olivaoea-fusca, superciliis indistinctis, corpore subtus flavicantibus, alis extus sordide albo limbatis, 

 (Desor. feminse ex Coban, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 



cJ juv. feminse similis, sed gula nigra. 



Eab. North America, from the Atlantic to the high central plains. — Mexico ^4 (Deppe^'^, 

 Galeotti ^^), Presidio [Forrer ^), Mazatlan [Grayson 2^), plains of Colima [Xantus ^s), 

 valley of Mexico (White^^), State of Vera Cruz (Sumichrast^), Cordova (Salle ^^), 



