YELLOW-HEADED TROOPIAL. 
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YELLOW-HEADED TROOPIAL — ICTERUS ICTEROCEPHA- 
LUS. — Plate HI. Fig. 1, Male; Fig. 2, Female. 
Oriolus Icteroceplialus, Linn. Syst. i. p. 163, sp. 16. Gmel. Syst. i. p. 392, sp. 
16. Lath. Ind. p. 183, sp. 32, male. — Icterus Icterocephalus, Orn. ii. 
p. 337, sp. 9, male. — Pendulinus Icteroceplialus, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. 
V. p. 317, male. — Icterus Xanttornus Icterocephalus Cayanensis, Briss. Av. ii. p. 
124, sp. 27, pi. 12, fig. 4, male. — Cornix atra; capite, collo, pectoreque flavis, 
Koelreuter, Nov. Comm. Ac. Sc. Petrop. xi. p. 435, pi. 15, fig. 7, male. — Les 
Coiffes jaunes, Buff. Ois. iii. p. 250, male. — Carouge de Cayenne, Buff. PI, Enl, 
343, male. — Yellow-Leaded Starling, Edw. Glean, iii. p. 241, pi. 323, male. — 
Yellow-Leaded Oriole, Lath. Syn. i. part 2, p. 441, sp. 30, male. Phil. Museum^ 
No. 1528, male ; No. 1529, female. 
AGLAIUS ICTEROCEPHALUS— 
Icterus (sub. gen. XantLornus) xantLocepLalus, Bonap. Synop. p. 52. — Aglaius 
xantLocepLalus, North. Zool. ii. p. 281. 
Although this species has long been known to naturalists, 
as an inhabitant of South America, and its name introduced 
into all their works, yet they have given us no other informa- 
tion concerning it, than that it is black, with a yellow head and 
neck. It was added to the Fauna of the United States by the 
expedition of Major Long to the Rocky Mountains. 
The female has been hitherto entirely unknown, and all the 
figures yet given of the male being extremely imperfect, from 
the circumstance of their having been drawn from wretchedly 
stuffed specimens, we may safely state, that this sex also is, 
for the first time, represented with a due degree of accuracy 
in our plate. The figures published by Edwards and Buffon 
* I have retained what appears to he the old specific name for this bird, and 
which also seems to be the view of our author. Another has been selected in the 
Northern Zoology^ where this bird is described from species obtained during the 
last expedition. It is mentioned as reaching the Saskachewan about the 20th of 
May, and, being even more numerous than the redwings, commits great havoc 
among the corn-fields. — En. 
