A revised classification of the Icteridae (Aves) based on DNA sequence data Author Remsen, J. V. Author Powell, Alexis F. L. A. Author Schodde, Richard Author Barker, F. Keith Author Lanyon, Scott M. text Zootaxa 2016 4093 2 285 292 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.4093.2.9 5628c05d-5de8-4d7d-9c6f-93daf663771d 1175-5326 266162 BFA3A69C-BAA2-4000-AB6A-FFF44B52A42F Subfamily DOLICHONYCHINAE Ridgway, 1902 Bulletin of the U.S. National Museum 50, 2, 1–834 (p. 175, as Dolichonyces). Type genus: Dolichonyx Swainson, 1827 . Diagnosis. Only icterids with acuminate tips to rectrices, sinuated outer webs to only two primaries (p7, p8), two complete molts a year, and dramatically different basic and alternate male plumages. Alternate plumage of male unique in family in having (1) color patch from occiput to nape conspicuously paler than rest of the head and underparts, and (2) white rump and scapulars. Bill strongly conical, hallux claw exceptionally long (longer than hallux), and primary 9 as long as primary 8 numbered outwards (see also Xanthocephalinae). By far the most extensively migratory icterid, with breeding and winter ranges in separate hemispheres.