XI E> R.AFLY OF THE UNIVERSITY or ILLINOIS 5^0.5 FI ZOOLOGICAL SERIES FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY FOUNDED BY MARSHALL FIELD, 1893 VOLUME XIII CATALOGUE OF BIRDS OF THE AMERICAS BY CHARLES E. HELLMAYR ASSOCIATE CURATOR OF BIRDS PART X ICTERIDAE WILFRED H. OSGOOD CURATOR, DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY EDITOR PUBLICATION 381 CHICAGO, U.S.A. APRIL 12, 1937 ZOOLOGICAL SERIES FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY FOUNDED BY MARSHALL FIELD, 1893 VOLUME XIII CATALOGUE OF BIRDS OF THE AMERICAS AND THE ADJACENT ISLANDS IN FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY INCLUDING ALL SPECIES AND SUBSPECIES KNOWN TO OCCUR IN NORTH AMERICA, MEXICO, CENTRAL AMERICA, SOUTH AMERICA, THE WEST INDIES, AND ISLANDS OP THE CARIBBEAN SEA, THE GALAPAGOS ARCHIPELAGO, AND OTHER ISLANDS WHICH MAY BE INCLUDED ON ACCOUNT OF THEIR FAUNAL AFFINITIES BY CHARLES E. HELLMAYR ASSOCIATE CURATOR OF BIRDS PART X ICTERIDAE WILFRED H. OSGOOD CURATOR, DEPARTMENT OP ZOOLOGY EDITOR PUBLICATION 381 CHICAGO, U.S.A. APRIL 12, 1937 PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY FIELD MUSEUM PRESS v.13 EDITOR'S NOTE As a matter of convenience, the present part of the "Catalogue of the Birds of the Americas" is confined to the treatment of the family Icteridae. As prepared by the author, the manuscript cover- ing this family was included with that of the Fringillidae, and only a single introduction was written. In this, he states that "the families treated are fairly circumscribed, but their further classification offers unusual difficulties. In the case of the Troupials, the author is bound to agree with the late Robert Ridgway's view that splitting into subfamilies serves no practical purpose, since no fast lines can be drawn between the minor groups proposed by certain systematists." Various museums and individuals, as heretofore, have cooperated in the preparation of this part by supplying material and information. Full acknowledgment to these will be made in the part (Part XI) devoted to the families Fringillidae, Ploceidae, Catamblyrhynchidae, and Paradiseidae, which will go to press in the near future. WILFRED H. OSGOOD January 5, 1937 iii CONTENTS Orders, Families, and Genera Included in Part X ORDER PASSERIFORMES SUBORDER OSCINES FAMILY ICTERIDAE Cassin 94 (Troupials) PAGE Euphagus Dives Cassin 96 Ocyalus Waterhouse 1 Ptiloxena 99 Zarhynchus Oberholser 2 Chapman Lampropsar Cabanis 100 Clypicterus Bonaparte 4 Icterus Daudin 102 Gymnostinops Sclater 5 Reichenbach 157 Xanthornus Pallas 10 Gymnomystax Vieillot 159 Cacicus Lacepede 24 Agelaius 184 Archiplanus Cabanis 35 Xanthopsar Ridgway Sclater Amblycercus Cabanis 41 Nesopsar 185 Cassiculus Swainson 45 Xanthocephalus Bonaparte 186 Psomocolax Peters 46 Amblyramphus Leach 187 Tangavius Lesson 50 Gnorimopsar Richmond 188 Molothrus Swainson 54 Notiopsar Oberholser 192 Macroagelaius Cassin 72 Pseudoleistes Sclater 194 Hypopyrrhus Bonaparte 73 Leistes Vigors 197 Quiscalus Vieillot 74 Pezites Cabanis 202 Holoquiscalus Cassin 77 Sturnella Vieillot 209 Cassidix Lesson . 88 Dolichonyx Swainson 220 CATALOGUE OF BIRDS OF THE AMERICAS BY CHARLES E. HELLMAYR PART X Order PASSERIFORMES Continued Suborder OSCINES Continued Family ICTERIDAE. Troupials Genus OCYALUS Waterhouse Ocyalus Waterhouse, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., "1840," p. 183, pub. July, 1841 type, by monotypy, Cassicus (Ocyalus) popayanus Waterhouse=CsstCMS latirostris Swainson. Ocyalus latirostris (Swainson). SWAINSON'S OROPENDOLA. Cassicus latirostris Swainson, Anim. Menag., p. 358, Dec. 31, 1837 Peru (type in coll. of W. Hooker); 1 Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1867, p. 71 "New Grenada" (crit.). Cassicus (Ocyalus) popayanus Waterhouse, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., "1840," p. 183, pub. July, 1841 "Popayan," Colombia, errore (type in coll. of Zoological Society of London, now in British Museum). Ocyalus latirostris Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., 1, (2), p. 427, 1850 "Brazil, Pebas" (descr.); Sclater, Cat. Coll. Amer. Bds., p. 127, 1862 "Upper Amazon"; Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1866, p. 182 upper Ucayali, near Cashaboya, Peru; idem, I.e., 1867, p. 749 Nauta, Peru; idem, I.e., 1873, p. 265 Peru (Nauta, upper Ucayali, Chamicuros, Santa Cruz); Sclater, Ibis, (5),1, 1883, p. 146 Peru (Nauta, Sarayacu, Chamicuros, Santa Cruz, Iquitos), Ecuador (Sarayacu), and "Popayan" (monog.); Taczanowski, Orn. Per., 2, p. 402, 1884 Peru (Nauta, upper Ucayali, Chamicuros, Santa Cruz); Sclater, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., 11, p. 311, 1886 Colombia ("Popayan"), Ecuador (Sarayacu), and Peru (Iquitos, upper Ucayali, Sarayacu, Nauta); Lonnberg and Rendahl, Ark. Zool., 14, No. 25, p. 86, 1922 near Archidona, Ecuador; Chapman, Bull. Amer. Mus. N. H., 55, p. 690, 1926 eastern Ecuador. Present location unrecorded. The type may be either at Liverpool or at Cambridge (Engl.). 2 FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ZOOLOGY, VOL. XIII 1 Range. Tropical zone of eastern Ecuador and northeastern Peru. 2 Genus ZARHYNCHUS Oberholser 3 Eucorystes (not of Bell, 1862) Sclater, Ibis, (5), 1, p. 147, 1883 type, by monotypy, Cacicus wagleri Gray and Mitchell. Zarhynchus Oberholser, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 51, p. 215, 1899 new name for Eucorystes Sclater, preoccupied. *Zarhynchus wagleri wagleri (Gray and Mitchell). WAGLER'S OROPENDOLA. Cacicus wagleri Gray and Mitchell, Genera of Birds, 2, p. 342, pi. Ixxxv, October, 1844 no type or locality indicated (the type in the British Museum is from Coban, Guatemala). 4 Zarhynchus wagleri mexicanus Ridgway, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., 3, p. 151 , 1901 Motzorongo, Vera Cruz, Mexico (type in U. S. National Museum); idem, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 50, Part 2, p. 178, 1902 southern Mexico to Guatemala (monog.); Dearborn, Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Orn. Ser., 1, p. 112, 1907 Finca Chapulco, near Los Amates, Guatemala; Austin, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 69, p. 392, 1929 Cayo District, British Hon- duras; Stone, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 84, p. 337, 1932 Chiloma and San Pedro, Honduras; Griscom, Bull. Amer. Mus. N. H., 64, p. 386, 1932 Guatemala (Finca Sepur, Finca Sepacuite, Secanquim, Finca Concepcion). Ocyalus wagleri Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, p. 228 San Andres Tuxtla, Vera Cruz, Mexico; Moore, I.e., 1859, p. 57 Chiloma, Hon- duras; Sclater and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, p. 19 Cahabon, Guatemala; Salvin, Ibis, 1861, p. 141 Lanquin, Guatemala; Sclater, Cat. Coll. Amer. Bds., p. 127, 1862 Guatemala; Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, p. 837 Honduras. Cassicus wagleri Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1867, p. 72 part, Mexico. Ocyalus waglerii Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 1, p. 553, 1869 Cerro de la Defensa, Vera Cruz, Mexico; Boucard, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, (n.s.), 25, p. 45, 1878 Guatemala. 1 The locality "Popayan" (in the Temperate zone of Colombia!) is unques- tionably erroneous. 2 Material examined. Ecuador: Archidona, 1. Peru: Maynas, 1; Iquitos, 2; Rio Contanamo, Rio Ucayali, 2. 3 This genus hardly deserves recognition, Z. wagleri being clearly the western and northern representative of Ocyalus latirostris. 4 Careful examination of the series in the British Museum by Mr. N. B. Kinnear, to whom I am greatly indebted for his assistance in the matter, led to an unexpected result. Gray's type, a male presented by Leadbeater in 1843 and marked "Coban(?)," proved to be an example of the northern form with dark chest- nut head and rump, agreeing well with individuals from Teapa (Chiapas) and Choctum (Guatemala). Z. w. mexicanus thus becomes a synonym of C. wagleri, and the paler form of southern Central America to Ecuador needed a new name. This was recently provided by van Rossem, who independently came to the same conclusion by personal examination of the type specimen. 1937 BIRDS OF THE AMERICAS HELLMAYR 3 Eucorystes wagleri Sclater, Ibis, 1883, p. 147 part, Mexico (Vera Cruz) to Honduras; idem, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., 11, p. 312, 1886 part, spec, a-f, Mexico and Guatemala (Coban, Choctum); Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, 1, p. 436, 1886 part, Mexico (Cerro de la Defensa), Guatemala (Cahabdn, Lanquin, Choctum), and Honduras (Chiloma, San Pedro); Lantz, Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., 16, p. 222, 1899 Chocan River, Guatemala. Range. Tropical zone of southeastern Mexico, in states of Vera Cruz (Cerro de la Defensa, Motzorongo) and Chiapas (Teapa), Guatemala, British Honduras, and Honduras. 1 1: Guatemala (Los Amates, 1). *Zarhynchus wagleri ridgwayi van Rossem. 2 PALE-NAPED OROPENDOLA. Zarhynchus wagleri ridgwayi van Rossem, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 77, p. 405, Dec., 1934 Limon, Costa Rica (type in the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena). Ocyalus wagleri (not Cacicus wagleri Gray and Mitchell) Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Avium, 1, (2), p. 427, 1850 "Venezuela" (diag.); Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1855, p. 153 "Bogota," Colombia; Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860, p. 138 Rio Truando and Rio Nercua, Colombia; Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., 7, p. 297, 1861 Panama Railroad; Cabanis, Journ. Orn., 9, p. 9, 1861 Costa Rica; Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, p. 353 Panama; Salvin, I.e., 1867, p. 142 Santa Fe, Veragua; Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. 1 N. Y., 9, p. 104, 1868 Costa Rica (San Jose , Turrialba, San Carlos); Frantzius, Journ. Orn., 17, p. 302, 1869 Costa Rica (San Mateo, Agua- cate, Or6si); Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, p. 190 Chitra and Calobre, Veragua; Salvin, Ibis, 1872, p. 317 Chontales, Nicaragua; Boucard, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, p. 58 Orosi, Costa Rica; Sclater and Salvin, I.e., 1879, p. 508, pi. 43, fig. 3 (egg) Pocune" and Remedios, Colombia; Nutting, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 5, p. 393, 1882 San Jose" to Puntarenas, Costa Rica; Goodfellow, Ibis, 1901, p. 476 Santo Do- mingo, Ecuador (habits). Cassicus wagleri Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1867, p. 72 part, Costa Rica (San Jose, Angostura, Turrialba, San Carlos), Panama, and "New Grenada." Eucorystes wagleri Sclater, Ibis, (5), 1, 1883, p. 147 part, Nicaragua (Chontales), Costa Rica, Veragua, Panama, Colombia (Antioquia), and Ecuador (Balzar); idem, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., 11, p. 312, 1886 part, spec, g-s, Nicaragua (Chontales), Costa Rica (Tucurriqui), Panama (Santa Fe, ^Material examined.