. A dictionary of birds . amily, Icferidx ; and, while many of thembear the vulgar name of Troopials (the Englishequivalent of the French Trovpicdes, first usedby Brisson), others are known as the AmericanGrackles. The typical species of Icterus isthe Oriolus icterus of Linnaeus, the Icterusvulgaris of Daudin and modern ornithologists,an inhabitant of northern Brazil, Guiana,Venezuela, which seems to have been intro-duced into some of the Antilles, and occa-sionally, it is said, visits the United species of the genus Ictervs alone, and ninety othersbelonging to 28 genera, a

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. A dictionary of birds . amily, Icferidx ; and, while many of thembear the vulgar name of Troopials (the Englishequivalent of the French Trovpicdes, first usedby Brisson), others are known as the AmericanGrackles. The typical species of Icterus isthe Oriolus icterus of Linnaeus, the Icterusvulgaris of Daudin and modern ornithologists,an inhabitant of northern Brazil, Guiana,Venezuela, which seems to have been intro-duced into some of the Antilles, and occa-sionally, it is said, visits the United species of the genus Ictervs alone, and ninety othersbelonging to 28 genera, are recognized by Mr. Sclater (Cat. B. xi. pp. ), most of them belonging to the NeotropicalRegion, though a few have their home to the northward, whitherthey repair to breed in summer. It would be impossible here todwell upon them, but Eucorystes, Cassicus and Agelseus may j^erhaps benamed as the most remarkable. They are nearly all gregariousbirds, many of them with loud and melodious notes, rendering them. Icterus. (After Swainson.)

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