Wing, 4.40; tail, 3.80; culmen, .95; tarsus, 1.00. _Hab._ Cuba. _b._ Females striped beneath var. _assimilis_.[30] Wing, 4.90; tail, 3.85; culmen, .96; tarsus, 1.10. _Female._ White stripes on lower parts exceeding the dusky ones in width; a conspicuous lighter superciliary stripe, and one strongly indicated on middle of the crown. _Hab._ Whole of North America, south to Guatemala var. _phœniceus_. _Middle wing-coverts black, except at base._ Wing, 5.00; tail, 3.90; culmen, .90; tarsus, 1.10. _Female._ White stripes on lower parts narrower than dusky ones; the posterior portion beneath being almost continuously dusky. No trace of median stripe on crown, and the superciliary one indistinct. _Hab._ Pacific Province of United States, south through Western Mexico var. _gubernator_. _Middle wing-coverts wholly white in male._ B. tricolor. Tail square. Red of the shoulders a brownish-scarlet, or burnt-carmine tint. Black of the plumage (both sexes at all ages) with a silky bluish lustre. _Female_ with wing-coverts edged with pure white. Wing, 4.90; tail, 3.70; culmen, .97; tarsus, 1.13. _Female._ Like that of _gubernator_, but with scarcely any brownish tinge to the plumage, and the lesser wing-coverts sharply bordered with pure white. _Hab._ California (only ?). [30] _Agelaius assimilis_, GUNDL. CABANIS, Journal, IX, 12 (nest).—IB. Boston Journal, VI, 1853, 316. Agelaius phœniceus, VIEILLOT. SWAMP BLACKBIRD; REDWING BLACKBIRD. _Oriolus phœniceus_, LINN. Syst. Nat. I, 1766, 161.—GMELIN, I, 1788, 386.—LATH. Ind. Orn. I, 1790, 428. _Agelaius phœniceus_, “VIEILLOT, Anal. 1816.”—SWAINSON, F. Bor.-Am. II, 1831, 280.—BONAP. List, 1838.—IB. Consp. 1850, 430.—AUD. Syn. 1839, 141.—IB. Birds Am. IV, 1842, 31, pl. ccxvi.—BAIRD, Birds N. Am. 1858, 526.—MAX. Cab. J. VI, 1858, 263.—COOPER & SUCKLEY, 207.—COOPER, Orn. Cal. 1, 1870, 261.—SAMUELS, 341.—_Allen_, Birds E. Fla. 284. _Icterus phœniceus_, LICHT. Verz. 1823, No. 188.—BON. Obs. Wils. 1824, No. 68.—AUD. Orn. Biog. I, 1831, 348; V, 1839, 487, pl. lxvii. _Psarocolius phœniceus_, WAGLER, Syst. Nat. 1827, No. 10. _Icterus (Xanthornus) phœniceus_, BONAP. Syn. 1828, 52.—NUTTALL, Man. I, 1832, 167, (2d ed.,) 179. _Sturnus prædatorius_, WILSON, Am. Orn. IV, 1811, 30, pl. xxx. _Redwinged Oriole_, PENNANT, Arctic Zoöl. II, 255. SP. CHAR. Tail much rounded; the lateral feathers about half an inch shorter. Fourth quill longest; first about as long as the fifth. Bill large, stout; half as high, or more than half as high, as long.