BIRDS OF NEW MEXICO 
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with olive or gray; flanks tinged with olive. Adult female: Upperparts olive-gray , 
top of head and back streaked with darker, becoming yellowish on ramp and upper 
tail coverts; tail olivaceous; wings crossed by two white bars; throat sometimes 
spotted or clouded with black, underparts greenish yellow, median portion clear yellow. 
Young in Juvenal plumage: Olive-green above, yellower below, without trace of 
black. 
Map 56. Scott Oriole 
Shaded areas show general range. Triangles mark breeding and breeding 
season records 
Range. —Breeds mainly in Lower Sonoran Zone from southern California, 
southern Nevada, southern Utah, central New Mexico, and central-western Texas 
south to Nuevo Leon, Vera Cruz, Puebla, and Lower California; winters in Mexico 
from Lower California, Sonora, and Chihuahua south to Oaxaca. 
State Records. —The Scott Oriole is found in the lowest and hottest parts of 
New Mexico, as at Carlisle (B&rrell), and Silver City, 6,000 feet (Fisher). [Two 
were taken May 10, 1920, 20 miles southwest of Silver City (Kellogg); one May 8, 
