208 OKIOLIDiE. 



washed \vith green, especially ou the lower throat and sides of the 

 hody, all the foatlicrs broadly and distinctly streaked with black, 

 these streaks disappearing on the lower abdomen and under tail- 

 coverts, the black streaks so broad on the malar line as to form an 

 indistinct moustache ; wings brown, primaries and outer wing- 

 coverts blacker, the latter all tipped with pale yellow or whitish, as 

 also are the quills and the primary-coverts ; primaries externally 

 margined with ashy whitish, the secondaries with very pale yellow ; 

 tail as in adult. 

 Hah. Aru Islands. 



a, b. c? ad. sk. Aru Islands, 1857. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.l. 



c, d. Juv. sk. Ai-u Islands, 1857. A. R. WaUace, Esq. [C.]. 



IG. Oriolus viridifuscus. (Plate XI.) 



Oriolus virescens. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 232 (descr. nulla, ex Temm. 



3IS.) ; Svhl. Mus. P.-B. Coraces, p. Ill ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. 



p. 293. 

 Mimeta virescens, Bp. Cansp. i. p. 346*.. 

 Mmeta viridifusca. Heme, J. f. O. 1859, p. 405 ; Wall. P. Z. S. 1863, 



p. 485. 

 Oriolus variegatus, Grai/, Hand-l. B. i. p. 293. 



Adult male. General colour above greenish grey, washed with 

 olivaceous yellow on the head and back, the lower back and rump 

 rather paler brown, slightly washed with grey, the upper tail-coverts 

 decidedly greyer ; wings brown, the feathers all washed externally 

 with light greyish, the least series washed with olive-yellow like 

 the back, the primary-coverts and secondaries tipped with white, 

 the primaries externally margined with pale rufous ; tail-feathers 

 brown, edged with paler and slightly olivaceous brown, tipped with 

 duU whitish, more broadly on the inner web ; lores and sides of face 

 ashy grey, the ear-coverts darker brown ; throat and breast grey, 

 the latter washed with olivaceous, the lower breast, abdomen, and 

 under tail-coverts creamy brown, slightly tinged with fulvous ; under 

 wing- coverts light brown like the belly, those along the edge of the 

 wing dark brown, tipped with greyish. Total length 10 inches, eul- 

 menl-3, wing 5-55, tail 4-6, tarsus 1-05. 



Female. Above asby brown, with whity-brown margins to the 

 feathers, causing a streaked appearance to the upper back ; lower 

 back, rump, and upper tail-coverts pale ashy brown, inclining to 

 greyish, especially on the latter ; head olivaceous brown, narrowly 

 streaked with black, the hind neck pale fulvous brown, with obso- 

 lete streaks of darker brown ; over the eye a narrow line of whitish 

 buff, broader on the sides of the head above the ear-coverts, and 

 forming an eyebrow ; lores greyish ; ear-coverts blackish brown, 



* This species must bear tbe name of viridifuscus, inasmucli as Bonaparte's 

 description consists, as in the previous species, of four words. Mr. G. E. Gray 

 reinstates the name of "variegatus, Cuv. ;" but this appears never to have been 

 published, to judge from Dr. Pucheran's remarks (Arcli. Mus. d'Hist. N. vii. 

 p. 339), where he observes that the specimens, though stated to be from Timor, 

 do not appear to differ from M. v/ridis of Austrah'a. 



