ICTEETJS. 467 



p. 373 *j Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 20 = ; Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 279 " ; 1870, p. 837'; 



Moore, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 58'; Duges, La Nat. i. p. 139'; Lawr. Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. 



no. 4, p. 23 ". 

 Pendulinus prosthemelas, Cass. Pr. Ac. Phil. 1867, p. 56"; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 104"; 



Frantz. J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 302". 

 Pendulinus lessoni, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 432 ". 



Nigerrimus ; dorso postico, tectricibus alarum minoribus, subalaribus et ventre cum crisso flavis ; pectore nigro, 

 ad ventrem castaneo marginato ; rostro nigro, mandibula ad basin plumbea, pedibus nigris. Long, fcota 7-8, 

 alee 3-6, caudse 3-75, rostri a rictu 0-8, tarsi 0-9. (Descr, maris ex Choctum, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 



$ mari simills. 



Eah. Mexico ^^, Guanajuato {Duges % Cordova (Salle ^), Chihuitan, Tehuantepec 

 {Sumichrasf^^); British Honduras, Corosal {B,oe% Belize (JBlancaneaux ^) ; 

 Guatemala 1 (SMnner^), Choctum 4, Coban (0. S. & F. D.G.); Honduras, San 

 Pedro {G. M. Whitely '^), Comayagua [Leyland ^) ; Nicaragua, Blewfields River 

 {WicJcham ^) ; Costa Eica {v. Frantzius ^^), Peje {Carmiol% Tucurriqui {Atc6 ^^). 



This bird is closely allied to /. wagleri, but may be at once distinguished by the 

 colour of the under tail-coverts, which are wholly yellow instead of being tipped with 

 black ; it is of a paler yellow beneath, and rather smaller in size. In Guatemala we 

 only met with it in the forest-region of Vera Paz, where it is found at an elevation of 

 1200 feet, and of 4000 feet in the neighbourhood of Coban. We are not aware of its 

 occurrence on the Pacific side of Guatemala, but Sumichrast records it from the Isthmus 

 of Tehuantepec. M. Salle also found it at Cordova on the eastern side. Dr. Duges 

 identifies a bird as of this species from Guanajuato, but we think it more than probable 

 that some mistake has been made here. Passing southwards, I. prosthemelas has been 

 noticed at many points of Eastern Central America as far south as Costa Eica, beyond 

 which country it appears not to pass. We never met with the nest of this species, 

 though we were some time in the districts frequented by it in Northern Vera Paz. 



Like its congeners, it is found on the edges of the forest and in second-growth woods. 



8. Icterus maculi-alatns. 



Pendulinus maculi-alatus, Cassin, Pr. Ac. PMl. 1847, p. 332'; 1867, p. 56 '; Joum. Ac. PhU. ser. 2, i. 



p. 137, t. 16. f. 1 '. 

 Icterus maculialatus, Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1860, p. 398*; Duges, La Nat. i. p. 139 '; Scl. Ibis, 1883, 



p. 363 " ; Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xi. p. 373 \ 



Nigerrimus ; dorso postico, tectricibus alarum minoribus, subalaribus et abdomine cum crisso aurantio-flavis ; 

 tectricibus alarum majoribus macula apicali alba notatis ; remigibus quoque extemis (praeter primam) 

 medialiter albo limbatis ; rostro nigro, mandibula ad basin efc pedibus plnmbeis. Long, tota 8-2, alae 3-9, 

 caudae 3-8, rostri a rictu 0-85, tarsi 1. (Descr. maris & Yolcan de Agua. Mus. nostr.) 



S juv. virescens; subtus flavicantior, gutture nigro; alis fuscis viridi-fusco limbatis. (Descr. exempL ex 

 Volcan de Fuego, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 



Hal. Guatemala, Volcan de Fuego ^, Volcan de Agua above San Diego '', San Pedro 

 Martyr {0. S.), Escuintla^ Aguna^ (Fraser). 



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