BIRDS — ICTERIDAE — QUISCALUS. 
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confined to the head and neck, the rest of the body being of a richly lustrous and strongly marked 
green, more distinct than that on the wings and tail of ferrugineus. In one specimen only, 
from Santa Rosalia, Mexico, is there a trace of purple on some of the wing and tail feathers. 
List of specimens. 
Catal. 
No. 
Sex. 
Locality. 
When col- 
lected. 
Whence obtained. 
Orig'l 
No. 
Collected by— 
Length. Stretch 
of wings 
Wing. 
Remarks. 
10296 
4754 
5320 
4753 
4755 
4756 
5663 
8253 
8222 
8255 
8254 
8256 
8212 
8257 
8704 
5006 
5007 
8712 
8713 
5005 
8705 
4942 
8711 
8709 
5538 
8710 
5539 
Sept. 20,1857 
April 23,1856 
Oct. 18,1856 
N. W. University. 
- 
3 
3 
Mouth of Big Nemaha.. 
Fort Randall, on Mo.... 
Dr. Hayden.,. 
1000 lfi.37 
5.25 
5.37 
5.25 
5.25 
10 25 
9.25 
9.00 
16 50 
14.87 
15.87 
$ 
24 
157 
205 
3 
$ 
9 
9 
3 
$ 
$ 
9 
July 22,1856 
Sept. —,1857 
Sept. 12,1857 
Lieut. Bryan 
W. M. Magraw... 
do 
do 
9.25 
9.15 
10.50 
14.50 
14 50 
16.75 
5.00 
5.50 
do 
do 
do 
517 
37 
194 
157 
do 
Iris yellow, bill and feet 
black. 
Sept. 8,1857 
do 
do 
.....do 
10.00 
16.00 
5.50 
Fort Riley, K. T 
Qaudaloupe bottom,Tex. 
Devil's river, Texas 
41 
10.50 
15.50 
5.00 
April 29, 1855 
Santa Rosalia, Mexico.. 
Dona Ana, N. Mexico. . 
Mar. —,1853 
Nov. 10,1855 
10.25 
9.50 
16.25 
16.06 
5.50 
5.50 
156 
9 
Dr. Heermann. 
San Jose, Cal 
A. J. Grayson.... 
Dr. Heermann. 
3 
9 
11.00 
5.66 
15.00 
12.54 
5.00 
4.54 
do. 
Feb. -,1856 
May 10,1856 
do 
do 
173 
4381 
4382 
9 
May 9,1855 
Dec. 29,1854 
172 
148 
17 
18 
18 
9.62 
9.50 
9.50 
9.50 
14.83 
15.50 
16.25 
14.75 
14.75 
4.75 
5.25 
do 
8706 
8707 
8708 
3 
9 
9 
Fort Vancouver, W. T.. 
do 
Jan. 23,1851 
Jan. 20,1854 
Gov. Stevens 
do 
Dr. Cooper .... 
do 
do 
QUISCALUS, Vieillot. 
Quiscalus, Vieillot, Analyse, 1816. (Gray.) Type Gracula quiscala, L. 
Ch.— Bill as long as the head, the culmen slightly curved, the gonys almost straight; the edges of the bill inflected and 
rounded ; the commissure quite strongly sinuated . Outlines of tarsal scutellae well defined on the sides; wings shorter than 
the tail, sometimes much more so ; tail long, the feathers conspicuously and decidedly graduated. Colors black. 
The excessive graduation of the long tail, with the perfectly black color, at once distinguish 
this genus from any other in the United States. The species are best known by the compara- 
tive size and length of the tail, as shown in the following table of measurements. 
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June 28, 1858. 
70 b 
