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U. S. P. E. R. EXP. AND SURVEYS—ZOOLOGY—GENERAL REPORT. 
List of specimens. 
Catnl. 
No. 
Sex 
and age. 
Locality. 
When col¬ 
lected. 
Whence obtained. 
Orig’l 
No. 
Collected by— 
Length. 
Stretch 
ol wings. 
Wing. 
Remarks. 
4286 
8 
Calcasieu, La. 
1854. 
3813 
8 
Eutaw, Ala. 
1542 
8 
Carlisle, Pa. 
May 17, 1844 
S. F. Baird. 
7.25 
11.33 
3.25 
1626 
O 
July 9. 1844 
7.00 
9.75 
3.17 
150 
O 
Sept. 7, 1840 
1475 
May 8, 1844 
7.25 
IN.33 
3.33 
1437 
6.83 
10.08 
3.83 
7012 
A 
May 15, 1857 
72 
5695 
A 
9 
5351 
o 
A 
June 21,1856 
6.50 
9.25 
3.25 
5348 
o 
6.50 
2.25 
5349 
O 
5356 
May 29, 1856 
6.75 
9 50 
3.25 
5352 
a 
May 30, 1856 
9.50 
3.00 
5344 
8 
6.75 
9.50 
3.00 
5353 
1856. 
6.75 
9.50 
5345 
8 
5.50 
9.50 
3.00 
5347 
A 
7.25 
9.50 
3.00 
... .do. 
5346 
£ 
6.00 
9.50 
3.00 
5343 
O 
6.00 
9.50 
3 25 
£694 
8 
58 
W. S. Wood. 
5.50 
6.50 
9339 
8 
Aug. 5, 1857 
Dr. Hayden.. 
6.50 
9.25 
2 75 
4957 
Dr. Swift . 
6706 
July —, 1855 
6711 
6707 
Q 
6.50 
9.00 
2.50 
6708 
O 
6712 
8 
6.75 
9.25 
2.75 
6710 
6.75 
9.62 
3.75 
6709 
6704 
5033 
May 12, 1855 
78 
6.75 
9.50 
3.00 
black. 
8090 
ICTERUS BALTIMORE, Daudin. 
Baltimore Oriole; Golden Robin; Hang Nest. 
Oriolus baltimore, Linn. Syst. Nat. I, 1766, 162.— Wilson, Am. Orn. I, 1808, 23 ; pi. i.— Ib. VI, 1812 ; pi. liii. 
“ Icterus baltimore, Daud.”— Aud. 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, Buff. PL Enl. 506, f. 1. 
Sp. 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. 
Hob. —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. 
