1. ORIOLUS. 199 



Adult. General colour pale greenish yellow, the head brighter 

 yellow, the lores and feathers round the eye black, encircling the 

 nape in a circular band ; wing-coverts coloured like the back, but 

 edged with brighter yellow ; primary- coverts black, with the ter- ■ 

 minal half yellow, forming a large alar speculum ; quills black, 

 broadly tipped with yellow, the secondaries externally margined 

 with bright yellow, the primaries with greyish ; the innermost secon- 

 daries olive-yellow, broadly tipped with yellow, the inner web only 

 blackish ; middle tail-feathers black, tipped with yellow, all the 

 other feathers bright yellow with black bases, the latter decreasing 

 in size towards the outermost ; " bill pale pink, inside of mouth 

 fleshy ; legs plumbeous ; iris crimson; eyelids grey" (Oates). Total 

 length 9-5 inches, culmen 1-3, wing 5*3o, tail 3-5, tarsus 1. 



Toting. Differs from the adult, as do the young birds of the alUed 

 species. Much duller in plumage than the adult, and whitish below, 

 with black shaft-streaks. 



Head of Oriohts fenuirostris. 



Hah. Burmah and Pegu. 



a, h. Ad. sk. Moulmein. W. T. Rlanford, Esq. [P.]. 



c. Juv. sk. Thayet-mjo, Pegu. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [P.]. 



7. Oriolus maculatus *. 



Oriolus maculatus, Vieill. N. Diet, xviii. p. 194. 



Oriolus galbida, Horsf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 152 («ec Linn.). 



Oriolus chinensis, Ba^. t. c. p. 303 (nee Linn.). 



Oriolus coronatus, Swains. An. in Menag. p. 342 ; Grai/, Gen. B. i. 



p. 232 : Bli/fJi, J. A. S. B. xv. p. 48 ; id. Cat. B. Mns. A. S. B. 



App. p. xxiii. 

 Oriolus hippocrepis, Horsf. ^- Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. i. p. 271 ; 



Gray, Hand-L B. i. p. 292 ; Hume, Sir. F. 1873, p. 457. 

 Oriolus horsfieldi, Bp. Consp. i. p. 348. 



Adult male. General colour above and below bright yellow ; crown 

 of head bright yellow, the lores and a band passing above and be- 

 low the eye and encircling the nape black ; least wing-coverts 



* Yieillot states that his 0. maeidattts is from Java ; and his description suits 

 the bird from that island. As the name of O. kundoo is admitted, although 

 founded on the young bird, so I consider Vieillot's name must be restored. 

 That of 0. hippocrepis, Wagler, Syst. Av. Oriolus, sp. 5, cannot be identified, 

 the description suiting several species equally well. 



