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ORIOLUS GALBULA. GOLDEN ORIOLE. 



Fig. 124. 



Oriolus Galbula. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 160. 



Oriolus Galbula. Lath. Ind. Orn. I. 186. 



Golden Oriole. Mont. Orn. Diet. 



Loriot. Oriolus Galbula. Temm. Man. d'Orn. I. 129. 



Golden Oriole. Oriolus Galbula. Selb. Illustr. I. 176. 



Oriolus Galbula. Golden Oriole. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 102. 



3fale with the plumage hright-yellow, the wings black, the 

 primary coverts, and all the quills excepting the first and second 

 tipped with yellow ; the tail-feathers black, tipped U'ith yellow, the 

 space of the latter colour enlarging from the medial to the lateral 

 feathers ; the loral space blach. Female greenish-yelloio above, 

 yellowish-white beneath, marked with longitudinal dusky lines ; the 

 icings and tail brown, tipped as i?i the male with yelloic. 



Male. — This beautiful bird is about the size of the Black 

 Thrush, Turdus Merula, which it also resembles in form, al- 



