I. baltimore. Head entirely deep black; tail orange, the feathers black at base; greater coverts broadly tipped with white; secondaries and primaries skirted with the same. Other portions rich, mellow orange, the rump as intense as the breast. Wing, about 3.75; tail, 3.50; culmen, .80; tarsus, .97. (Specimens from Eastern United States and Middle America with middle coverts deep orange.) (Specimens from the Plains of Kansas, Nebraska, etc., with middle coverts pure white. Some eastern specimens similar.) I. bullocki. Head mainly black, with an orange or yellow superciliary stripe, and a broader one beneath the eye, cutting off the black of the throat into a narrow strip; tail orange or yellow, the feathers with black at ends; greater coverts with outer webs wholly white, and middle coverts entirely white, producing a large conspicuous longitudinal patch on the wing; tertials and secondaries broadly edged with white, and primaries more narrowly skirted with the same. Other portions rich orange or yellow. Rump grayish-orange; sides and flanks deep orange; forehead and auriculars orange; a broad supraloral stripe of the same. Xanthic tints deep orange, with a reddish tinge on the breast. Wings, 4.00; tail, 3.50; culmen, .80; tarsus, .90. _Hab._ Western Province of United States var. _bullocki_. Rump black; sides and flanks black; forehead and auriculars black; no yellow or orange supraloral stripes. Xanthic tint a very intense gamboge, without any shade of orange. Wing, 4.00; tail, 3.50; culmen, .75; tarsus, .85. _Hab._ Mexico var. _abeillei_.[40] [35] _Icterus dominicensis_, var. _prosthemelas_. _Icterus prosthemelas_, STRICKLAND, Jard. Cont. Orn. 1850, 120, pl. lxii. _Pendulinus p._ CASSIN, Icteridæ, P. A. N. S. 1867, 56. _Pendulinus lessoni_, BONAP. Consp. I, 432, 1850. [36] _Icterus dominicensis_, var. _dominicensis_. _Oriolus dominicensis_, LINN. S. N. I, 163, 1766. _Pendulinus d._ CASSIN. P. A. N. S. 1867, 58. _Pendulinus flavigaster_, VIEILL. Nouv. Dict. V, 317, 1816. _Pendulinus viridis_, VIEILL. Nouv. Dict. V, 321, 1816? [37] _Icterus dominicensis_, var. _portoricensis_, BRYANT, Pr. Bost. Soc. 1866, 254. _Pendulinus portoricensis_, CASS. P. A. N. S. 1867, 58. _Turdus ater_, GM. S. N. I, 830, 1788? _Turdus jugularis_, LATH. Ind. Orn. I, 351, 1790? [38] _Icterus dominicensis_, var. _hypomelas_. _Pendulinus hypomelas_, BONAP. Consp. I, 433, 1850.—CASS. P. A. N. S. 1867, 59.