466 ICTEEID^. 



b. Sexus similes. 



6. Icterus wagleri. 



Psarocolius flaviff aster, Wagl. Isis, 1829, p. 756^ (nee Vieillot). 



Icterus wagleri, Scl. P. Z. S. 1857, p. 7'; 1859, p. 381 ' ; Ibis, 1883, p. 362'; Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 



xi. p. 372'; Baird, Mex. Bound. Surv. ii. Zool., Birds, p. 19, 1. 19. f. 2°; Scl. & Salv. 



Ibis, 1859, p. 20'; Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 468' ; Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. i. p. 552'; 



Finscb, Abh. nat. Ver. zu Bremen, 1870, p. 338"; Lawr. Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. 



p. 279"; Salv. Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 263"; Perez, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1886, p. 150". 

 Pendulinus wagleri, Cass. Pr. Ac. Phil. 1867, p. 55 ". 

 Icterus dominicensis, Sw. Phil. Mag. new ser. i. p. 436 ". 



Nigerrimus ; dorso postico tectricibus alarum minoribus subalaribus et ventre toto flavis, hoc aurantiaco tincto, 

 crisso nigro ; alls caudaque nigerrimis ; rostro et pedibus nigris. Long, tota 8"4, alae 4-0, caudse 4*1, rostri 

 a rictu 1*0, tarsi 0-9. (Descr. maris ex Duenas, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 



$ mari similis. 



Av. juv. supra olivacea, interscapulii plumis medialiter fuscis ; aJis et cauda fuscis, Ulis paUide fiisco limbatis ; 

 subfcus sordide flava, gula nigra. (Descr. exempl. ex Dueiias, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 



Av. pull. subtuB omnino flavicans. 



Eab. Mexico i5j Saltillo, Coahuila (Couch ^^^), Mazatlan (Grayson ^^), Presidio (For- 

 rer% Guadalajara ^ i^, Te^ic'^^ (Grayson), Tableland, Temhc^lie^ec (Bullock '^^), 

 Huehuetlan (Perez ^^), State of Vera Cruz, Cordova (Sumichrast ^), Villa Alta 

 (Boucard ^), Oaxaca (Boucard ^, Fenochio ^) ; Guatemala (Constancia '^^), Duenas '^, 

 Calderas on the Volcan de Fuego^, San Geronimo (0. S.). 



Icterus wagleri ranges throughout Mexico and a large portion of Guatemala, being, 

 according to our experience in Guatemala, an upland species frequenting the wooded 

 mountains at elevations lying betvpeen 3000 and 6000 feet above the sea. In Mexico, 

 Sumichrast states ^ that it belongs to the hot region of the State of Vera Cruz in the 

 district of Cordova, its vertical range reaching to about 3300 feet ; but as the bird 

 obtained by Salle in this locality proved to be Icterus prosthemelas, Sumichrast's bird 

 may have been wrongly identified. Grayson observed it in the garden of Jauja in 

 Tepic, where a few pairs resided ^^ ; he considered it a rare species in Western Mexico, 

 but Forrer found it in the neighbourhood of Mazatlan. In the neighbourhood of 

 Duenas in Guatemala, Icterus wagleri is one of the commonest birds of the genus in 

 the shrubby woods clothing the hill-sides and in the second-growth woods on the 

 Volcan de Fuego ; here it breeds, making a shallow nest of interwoven grasses ^, 



In the ' History of North-American Birds ' this species is noticed in a footnote 

 (vol. ii. p. 188), and is there stated to be found in Costa Eica; but this extension of 

 its range requires confirmation, as its name is absent from all the recognized lists of 

 the birds of that country. 



7. Icterus prosthemelas. 



Xanthornus prosthemelas, Strickl. Contr. Om. 1850, p. 120, t. 62 ^ 



Icterus prosthemelas, Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 301 ''; Ibis, 1883, p. 363°; Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xi. 



