470 ICTEEID^. 



Venezuela. Mr. Wyatt considered it a bird of the temperate region of the former 

 country, its range in altitude extending to about 7000 feet, and Salmon met with it at 

 Medellin and other places in the Cauca valley at an elevation of about 6000 feet. • The 

 last-named collector obtained its eggs, which are pale grey blotched and streaked with 

 dark brown and grey. 



A good deal of variation is shown in specimens of this species, both as regards size 

 and the tint of the yellow portion of the plumage. The bird we have described from 

 the Volcan de Fuego is rather dark ; we have a much paler example from Tactic, but 

 the palest of all is from the island of Euatan. In spite of these differences, we believe 

 they all belong to one and the same species. We never obtained the eggs of this bird 

 in Guatemala; but we have a young bird shot early in August in the Volcan de 

 Fuego, at an elevation of 6000 feet, which is just commencing to change its first 

 plumage for its adult dress. 



e'. Caudoe rectrices externce flavoe. 

 11. Icterus mesomelas. 



Psarocolius mesomelas, Wagl. Isisj 1839, p. 755 '. 



Icterus mesomelas, Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 301 'j 1860, p. 277'; Ibis, 1883, p. 367*; Cat. B. Brit. 



Mus. xi. p. 378 = ; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1860, p. 34°; P. Z. S. 1864, p. 354''; 1867, p. 379'; 



1870, p. 837 ' ; 1879, p. 509 " ; Moore, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 58 " ; SumicLrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. 



N. H. i. p. 553 " ; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 297 '" ; viii. p. 180" ; BuU. U. S. Nat. Mus. 



no. 4, p. 23''; Cass. Pr. Ac. Phil. 1867, p. 51"; Nutt. & Kidgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. vi. 



p. 402"; Boucard, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 445"; Tacz. Orn. Per. ii. p. 417". 

 Icterus atrogularis. Less. Cent. Zool. p. 73, t. 22'"'. 

 Oriolus musicus, Cabot, Pr. Bost. Soc. N. H. i. p. 155 ". 

 Icterus salvini, Cass. Pr. Ac. Phil. 1867, p. 51^^; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 104"; Frantz. J. f. 



Orn. 1869, p. 302 ^ 



Citrinus, capite summo sericeo-aurantio ; loris, oeulorum ambitu et gutture toto nigris ; alis nigris, tectricibus 

 alarum minoribus et subalaribus flavis ; secundariis mediis plerumque albo sfcricte limbatis ; caudas rectricibus 

 utrinque tribus extemis plus quam dimidio apicali gradatim flavis, ad basin et tectricibus reUquis nigris ; 

 rostro nigro, mandibulae basin et pedibus plumbeis. Long, tota 8'5, else 3-5, caudse 4-3, rostri a rictu 0-9, 

 tarsi 1-1. (Descr. exempl. ex Choctum, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 



5 mari similis. 



Sah. Mexico i, Cordova {SalU ^j, hot country of Vera Cruz (Sumichrast ^^), Orizaba ^, 

 Guichicovi (Sumichrast ^^), Yucatan (Cabot ^^), Calotmul (Gaumer ^^) ; British 

 HoNDUEAS, Corosal (Boe ^), Belize (Blancaneaux ^) ; Honduras, Omoa (Leyland ^^ j, 

 San Pedro (G. M. WMtely^)\ Guatemala, Cohan (0. S.% Choctum (0. S. & 

 F. B. G.^) ; Nicaragua, Blewfields Eiver ( Wickham ^), Greytown (Holland ^% 

 Los Sabalos (Nutting ^'^) ; Costa Kica, Valza (Carmiol ^), San Carlos, Turrialba 

 (v. Frantzius ^S Carmiol ^^) ; Panama, Lion Hill {M'Leannan '^ ^^), Chepo (ArcS ^). 

 — Colombia 10; Ecuador^; Peru^^. 



Though described from Mexican specimens, Icterus mesomelas appears to be restricted 



