Perching Birds Marked With Yellow or Orange 



503. Audubon Orjole [Icterus audubonii). I.. 9.5 

 ^ds. Head, breast, wings and tail black; belly yellow; 

 back greenish yellow. Yng. Greenish yellow below; 

 olive-green above. NoUs. See No. 507. 



Range.— Mexir.o north to the Lower Rio Grande; casually as far as 

 Ean Aritonio. Texas; residsni. 



5 04. Scott Oriole (Icterus parisorum) . L. 8; B. .95; 

 Ad. cT. Lesser wing-covcrts, base of tail, rump and 

 belly yellow; rest of plumage black. Ad. $• Yellow- 

 ish belnw, olive-greeii above, two white wing-bars. 

 Yng. fji. Like female, but throat black. Notes, See 

 No. 5<J7. 



Range.— Mexican lable[and, migrating nonh TO western Teias, 

 northern New Mexico, southern Nevada and soullieaslern Cdllfornia; 

 wintersln Mexico. 



505. Hooded Oriole [Icterus cucullatus sennetit). 

 L. 8; B. .75. Ad. (f. Orange; forehead, face, throat, 

 foreback, wings and tail black; lesser wing-coverts and 

 tips to greater Ones white. Ad. Q. Yellowish below, 

 brownish olive-green>above, two white wing-bars. 

 Yng. (S^. Like ¥, but throat black. Notes. See No. 

 507. 



Rarige. — Mexico; migrating nOrth to Ihe Lower Hio Grande; winters 

 In Mexico. 



505a. Arizona Hooded Oriole (/. c. nehom). Sim- 

 ilar to No. 505, but head, rump, etc. yellow instead rf 

 orange. 



Range.— Northwestern Me);lco and Lower California, rrlgratfnfr 

 north to southwestern New Mexico, Arli-nna, and sonlhem California, 

 west of Sierra Newada; winters in Mexico. 



507. Baltimore Oriole (/de;-uf galbula), L. 7,5. 

 Ad. Q^. Throat, whole head, foreback, wings and 

 middle tail-feathers black; breast, belly, rump, lesser 

 wing-coverts and ends of outer tail-feathers orange; 

 wing-coverts and tertials margined with white. Ad. ?■ 

 Head and foreback olive-yellow spotted with black; 

 rump and tail brownish yellow; below dull yellow, 

 throat generally blackish. Notf^ The notes of all 

 the orange and black Orioles known to me are mellow, 

 musical, querulous whistles generally given in detach- 

 ed fragments, all much alike in character but dis- 

 tinguishable when one becomss familiar with them. 



Range.— Eastern North America west to the Rocky MoJntaJns! 

 breeds from Florida and eastern Texas north to New Brunswick and 

 the Saskatchewan; wIntersTn Central and South Amertea. 



508. Bullock Oriole [hUrus bullocki). L. 7.5. 

 Ad, ^. Ckeehs, most of underparts, forehead and line 

 over eye orange; rump and outer tail-feathers yellower; 

 center of throat, crown, foreback and middle tail-feath- 

 ers black; a large white wing-patch. Ad. 9- Above 

 olive grayish brown; Delow yellowish, belly 

 whiter; tall olive-yellow; wings blackish, median cov- 

 erts tipped, greater Coverts externally margined with 

 white; chin sometimes blackish. Yng. (f. Like 9, 

 but center of throat and lores black. Notes. See Nd. 

 507. 



Range.— Western North America, from Mexico nurth lu AsStniboli 

 and British Columbia; east lo western Texaiii west to the Pacliic; 

 winters In Mexko. 



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