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16. Icterus gularis. 



Bsarocolius gularis, Wagl. Isis, 1829, p. 754 \ 



Xanthornus gularis, Bp. P. Z. S. 1837, p. 110 ^ 



Icterus gularis, LicM. Preis-Verz. mex. Vog. p. 1'; Des Murs, Icon. Orn. t. 9*; Cass. Pr. Ac. 

 Phil. 1848, p. 90 ^ 1867, p. 49 ^ Scl. P. Z. S. 1857, pp. 205 ^ 228 ' ; 1858, p. 358 ' ; 1859, 

 p. 365"; Ibis, 1883, p. 371 '' ; Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xi. p. 384'^; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, 

 p. 19 "; Taylor, Ibis, 1860, p. Ill"; E. Owen, Ibis, 1861, p. 62 ^%- Lawr. BuU. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus. no. 4, p. 23"; Perez, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1886, p. 150 ". 



Icterus mentalis, Less. Cent. Zool. p. Ill, t. 41 ^^. 



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



AuiantiTis ; interscapulio, loris, gutture medio et cauda nigris ; alls riigris albo limbatis, tectricibus alarum 

 minoribus flavis ; rostro et pedibus nigris. Long, tota 9-5, alse 4-7, caud^ 4-2, rostri a rictu 1-0, tarsi 1-15. 

 (Descr. exempl. ex Savana Grande, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 



? sordideflava; interscapulio olivaceo-fusoo ; alis fuscis albo limbatis ; Cauda fusoa olivaceo lavata ; gula media 

 fuscescente. (Descr. exempl. ex San Geronimo, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 



Eab. Mexico 118 (^j)eppe^. Pease ^, SalW^), Tableland, Temiscaltepec {Bullock^^\ 

 Actopam {Perez i^), San Andres Tuxtla [Salle % Jalapa {de Oca lo, Edge i2), Putla 

 (BSbouch^% Barrio 16, CMhuitan i^, Juchitan i^, Santa Efigenia i^, Tonala 1 12 

 (Sumichrast), Yucatan (Gaumer^^), Cozurael I. (Gaumer^^) ; British Honduras, 

 Corosal (Boe^^); Guatemala, Vera Paz (Skinner ^^), San Geronimo (Owen^^), 

 Eetalhuleu, Savana Grande i^, San Pedro Martyr 12, Zacapa (0. S. & F. D. G.) ; 

 Salvador, Acajutla {0. S.); Honduras, Comayagua [Taylor^); Nicaragua^. 



Icterus gularis is extensively distributed through Southern Mexico, where it has been 

 obtained on both sides of the mountain-range, and according to Swainson on the table- 

 land, but this we think is probably an error ; it is omitted from Sumichrast's list of the 

 birds of the State of Vera Cruz, but he met with it abundantly on the Pacific side of 

 the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Mr. Gaumer has sent us a specimen from Yucatan and 

 many examples from the island of Cozumel. In Guatemala its distribution is rather 

 local, for skins of it do not occur in collections made by the natives of Cohan ; but about 

 the plains of Salama and Zacapa, where the vegetation is much less dense, it is far from 

 uncommon ; it also spreads throughout the coast-region of Guatemala bordering the 

 Pacific up to an elevation of about 3000 feet. It is thus a bird of the lowlands, and 

 we have no record of it from the higher portion of the mountain-ranges. Mr, R. Owen 

 secured an egg of this species together with the hen bird at San Geronimo in 1860 ; it 

 is pale grey, blotched and streaked with very dark brown. 



There is a good deal of variation in the intensity of the orange colour of this bird, 

 as well as in the general dimensions, but we do not think any satisfactory division is 

 possible. 



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