204 ORIOUD.E. 



Adult. Above bright golden yellow; lores, feathers round the 

 eye, hinder crown and nape black, forming a broad horseshoe ; 

 sides of face, nock, and entire under surface of body bright yellow, 

 like the back ; wing-coverts bright golden yellow ; bastard wing, 

 primary-coverts, and quills black, with a spot of yellow at the tip 

 of the outer web of the inner secondaries, increasing on the inner- 

 most, where it occupies nearly the entire outer web ; tail black, 

 broadly tipped with bright yellow, this occupying the terminal third 

 of the outermost rectrix and gradually decreasing towards the centre 

 of the tail, the two centre feathers being merely tipped with yellow ; 

 " biU pink rose-coloured ; feet and claws blue-grey " (Meyer). Total 

 length 11-5 inches, culmen 1-45, wing 6-2, tail 4-35, tarsus 1-1. 



Young male. Differs from the adult in being greener on the back, 

 the quills and tail-feathers brown instead of black ; two centre tail- 

 feathers olive greenish, the rest greenish at the base, the tips broadly 

 yellow, with a subterminal blackish shade ; head dull yellow, with 

 a horseshoe-mark on the hinder part of the crown dusky black 

 streaked with yellow ; sides of face and under surface of body bright 

 yeUow, with a few narrow streaks of black on the chest. Total 

 length 10-2 inches, culmen 1-35, wing 5-6, tail 4-3, tarsus 1. 



Hah. Philippine Islands. 



a. Ad. St. CatagTian, Luzon. Hugh Cuming, Esq. [C.l. 



h. Ad. sk. Cataguan, Luzon. Hugh Cuming, Esq. [C.]. 



c. Ad. sk. [Philippine Islands.] Admiral Sir E. Belcher [P.]. 



d. 9 ad. sk, San Bernardino, Negros, Prof. J. B. Steere [0.]. 



Jan. 1875. 



e. S i"'^'- sk. Dumalon, Mindanao. Prof. J. B. Steere [C.]. 



13. Oriolus frontalis. 



Oriolus frontalis, Wall P. Z. S. 18G2, p. .340, pi. xl. ; Finsch, Neu- 



Gtdnea, p. 173; Grai/, Hatid-L B. i. p._292. 

 Broderipus frontatus, Walden, Tr. Z. S. viii. p. 61. 



Adult male. Above and below brilliant golden orange; head 

 black, with a frontal band of yellow ; wing-coverts coloured like 

 the back ; bastard wing, primary-coverts, and quills black, with no 

 yellow tips to any of the feathers ; two centre tail-feathers black, 

 with a narrow yellow tip, the rest of the feathers black, yellow at 

 the tip, this colour gradually increasing in extent towards the outer 

 feathers, where it occupies more than the terminal third. Total 

 length 11-8 inches, culmen 1-45, wing 0-8, tail 4-95, tarsus l-I. 



Young. Much paler yellow than the adults, and having faint 

 streaks "of yellow on the head, the frontal plumes being narrowly 

 tipped with black ; wings brown externally, shaded with olive, the 

 primaries with grey ; least wing-coverts bright yellow like the back, 

 the greater series brown, externally with a broad margin of yellow ; 

 four centre tail-feathers dull olive-yellow, the second pair slightly 

 blackish towards the tips, the rest of the feathers olive-green at 

 base, and tii)ped wath yellow principally on the inner web, the 

 blackish subterminal sliade greatly increasing towards the outermost 



