Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Icteria

ICTERIA (ik-ter′ē-ä), a genus of birds placed by Swainson under his sub-family Braohypodiæ (short-footed thrushes). I. virens, or viridis (I. polyglotta of Wilson) the yellow-breasted chat, is found in the United States. It has great powers of imitating the sounds which it hears.