. Handbook of birds of the western United States including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande valley . ountains, Mr. Bailey often found the orioles feed-ing among the flowers of a giant agave, the greenish yellow colorof which they match in a suggestively protective manner. Subgenus Pendulinus. 505. Icterus cucuUatus sennetti Ridgw. Sennett Okiole. Adult male.— Facial mask, throat, back, wings, and tail black, wings withwhite ; rest of plumage deep cadmium yellow. Adult female : under partspale gamboge, back and scapulars grayish. Male: length (skins) ,
. Handbook of birds of the western United States including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande valley . ountains, Mr. Bailey often found the orioles feed-ing among the flowers of a giant agave, the greenish yellow colorof which they match in a suggestively protective manner. Subgenus Pendulinus. 505. Icterus cucuUatus sennetti Ridgw. Sennett Okiole. Adult male.— Facial mask, throat, back, wings, and tail black, wings withwhite ; rest of plumage deep cadmium yellow. Adult female : under partspale gamboge, back and scapulars grayish. Male: length (skins) , wing , tail , bill . Female: length (skins), wing , tail , bill . Distribution. — From the lower Rio Grande Valley in Texas, south toMexico. In the narrow strip between the Rio Coloral and the Mexican linein Texas, where the dense, thorny thickets are full of cactus and lowyucca trees, the Sennett oriole makes its home. Here, as we werelooking for the nest of a verdin one day, an oriole flew from underthe drooping spears of a yucca. On inspection we found one of the. 296 BLACKBIRDS, ORIOLES, ETC. most skillfully wrought nests a bird ever made, a perfect basket,hung by the handle to the drooping bayonets in such a way that thesharp poii^ts protected it and yet left the bird an easy entrance. Thenest was made of yucca fiber, decorative touches being given by bitsof gray moss stuck on here and there. 505a. Icterus cucuUatus nelsoni Bidgw. Arizona Hooded Oriole. Adult male. — Plumage yellow, except for black of oval throat patch, fore part of back, wings, and tail, white bars and edgings of wings, and tip of tail. Adult female: plain yellow below ; olive green above, washed with gray on back; wings brownish with two white bands and whitish edgings to quills. , Young males in second year: like adult females, but throat patch as in males. Young in first year: like adult female, but colors duller, plumage especially on
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