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U. S. V. R. R. EXP. AND SURVEYS — ZOOLOGY — GENERAL REPORT. 
List of specimens. 
Sex 
and age 
Locality. 
When col- 
lected. 
Whence obtained. 
Orig'l 
No. 
Collected by— 
Length. 
Stretch 
of wings. 
Wing. 
Remarks. 
3 
8 
3 
o 
Q 
a 
a 
a 
a 
a 
a 
Calcasieu, La 
G. Wiedemann .. 
May 17, 1844 
July 9. 1844 
Sept. 7, 1840 
May 8,18-14 
May 3, 1844 
7.25 
7.00 
11.33 
9.75 
3.25 
3.17 
7.25 
6.83 
111.33 
10.08 
3.33 
3.83 
May 15, 1857 
June 14, 1856 
Jl 21, 1856 
May 29, 1856 
Lieut. Bryan 
Lieut. F. T. Bryan. 
72 
9 
Wm. S. Wood 
East of Fort Riley, K.T. 
Dr. Hayden.. 
6.50 
6.50 
9.25 
9.75 
3 25 
2.25 
May 29, 1856 
May 30, 1856 
do 
do 
do 
6.75 
6.75 
6.75 
5.50 
7.25 
6.00 
6.00 
5.50 
6.50 
9 50 
9.50 
9.50 
9.50 
9.50 
9.50 
9.50 
9.50 
6.50 
9.25 
3.25 
3.00 
3.00 
Eyes dark brown 
a 
a 
do 
a 
a 
a 
June 15, 1856 
June 21, 1856 
3.00 
3.00 
3.00 
3 25 
do 
do 
June — , 1856 
July 2, 1856 
Aug. 5, 1857 
July — , 1855 
a 
a 
58 
W. S. Wood. 
Dr. Hayden.. 
Lieut. Warren 
2 75 
Ft. Chadboume, Texas . 
San Antonio, Texas 
Lt. A. W. Whipple 
Dr. Keimerly. 
Dr. Herrmann 
J. H. Clark... 
9 
0 
a 
6.50 
9.00 
2.50 
6.75 
6.75 
9.25 
9.62 
2.75 
3.75 
Mimbres to Rio Grande. 
Dr. T. C. Henry. 
May 12, 1855 
6.75 
9.50 
3.00 
Gums and feet yellow; bill 
black. 
ICTERUS BALTIMORE, Daudin. 
Baltimore Oriole ; Golden Robin ; Hang Nest. 
Orlolus baltimore, Linn. Syst. Nat. I, 17GG, 162.— Wilson, Am. Orn. I, 1808, 23 ; pi. i.— Ib. VI, 1812 ; pi. liii. 
" Icterus baltimore, Daud ."• — Arm. Orn. Biog. I, 1831, 66 : V, 1839, 278 ; pi. 12 and 423.— Ib. Birds Am. IV, 1842, 
37 ; pi. 217. 
Yphantes baltimore, Vieillot, Gal. des Ois. I, 1824, 124 ; pi. 87. 
Psarocolius baltimore, Wagler, Syst. Av. 1825, No. 26. 
Le Baltimore, Burr. PI. Enl. 506, f. 1. 
Sr. Ch. — Tail nearly even. Head all round and to middle of back, scapulars, wings, and upper surface of tail, black ; rest 
of under parts, rump, upper tail coverts, and lesser wing coverts, with terminal portion of tail feathers, (except two innermost,) 
orange red. Edges of wing quills, with a band across the tips of the greater coverts, white. Length, 7.50 inches ; wing, 3.75. 
Hab. — From Atlantic coast to the High Central Plains, and in their borders, south to Guatemala. 
The female is much less brilliant in color ; the black of the head and back generally replaced 
by brownish yellow, purer on the throat ; each feather with a black spot. 
