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YELLOW-HEADED TROOPIAL. 
ICTERUS ICTEROCEPHALUS. 
Plate III. Fig. 1, Male; 2, Female. 
Oriolus Iderocephalus, Linn. Syst. I, p. 163, Sp. 16. Gmel. Syst. I, p. 392, Sp. 16. 
Lath. Ind. p. 183, Sp. 32, Male. 
Icterus Iderocephalus , Daudin, Orn. II, p. 337, Sp. 9, Male. 
Pendulinus Iderocephalus , Vie ill. Nouv. Did. d’Hist. Nat. V, p. 317, Male. 
Icterus Xanthornus Iderocephalus Cayanensis, Bmss. Av. II, p. 124, Sp. 27, PI. 12, 
fig. 4, Male. 
Cornix atra; capile, collo, pedoreque Jlavis, Koelreuter, Nov. Comm. Ac. Sc. Petrop. 
XI, p. 435, PI. 15, fig. 7, Male. 
Les Coiffes jaunes, Buff. Ois. Ill, p. 250, Male. 
Carouge de Cayenne , Buff. PI. Enl. 343, Male. 
Yellow-headed Starling , Edwards, Glean. Ill, p. 241, PI. 323, Male. 
Yellow-headed Oriole, Lath. Syn. I, Part II, p. 441, Sp. 30, Male. 
Philadelphia Museum, No. 1528, Male; No. 1529, Female. 
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 information 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 approach the nearest to 
the real magnitude; but they are mere masses of black, surmounted 
