J. oRioU's. 200 



slightly st]-eakcd with paler brown ; cheeks and malar region 

 blackish, the feathers margined with huffy white, forming a distinct 

 moustachial band running down the sides of the neck; throat white- 

 remainder of under surface pale brown, the under wing-coverts uni- 

 form With the breast, the outermost dark brown, with broad fulvous 

 tips ; under tail-coverts pale brown, tipped with white ; wings above 

 brown, rather broadly edged with rusty red, the primary -coverts 

 and the secondaries tipped with white ; tail olivaceous brown, tipped 

 with pale rufous, larger on the inner web. Total length 12-5 inches 

 culmen 1-25, wrug 5-5, tail 5-1, tarsus 1-05. 



roiim/. Similar to the old female, but distinguished by the very 

 broad rufous edgings to the coverts and feathers of the wing; 

 underneath white, washed with pale brown on the sides of the body' 

 the breast streaked with black, the abdomen with pale brown. 



Ohs. I cannot be quite certain whether I am right in describing 

 the brown birds as being of the same species as the greenish one. 

 In this 1 am following Schlegel, who has in the Leiden Museum a 

 specimen " dans la livreo de passage," and who ought tlierefore to 

 be able to judge of the changes of plumage in the species. Gray 

 admits two species ; and the specimens collected by Mr. Wallace 

 rather bear out this idea, as the brown birds are both from Semao 

 and the fuU-iilumaged greenish bird from East Timor. The brown 

 buds, however, are both ascertained females by dissection ; so that 

 they may represent the adult hen of the greenish bird, the young one 

 differing as described above. 

 JIab. Timor group of islands. 



T "IV" f^' V'^^^^'- Massena CoUection. 



"• f^- **• Timor. Leiden Museum [E.l. 



c Juv. St. Timor. Leiden Museum fE.!. 



J ^\^ , , • ^'^^^^° ^*^^"'^- -'^- R- Wallace, Esq.TC.l. 



/. c? ad. sk. E. Timor. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.j. 



17. Oriolus forsteni. 



Mimeta forsteni, Bp. Comp. i. p. 346; Heine, J. f. O. 18o9 p 404 • 

 Finsch, Aeu-Ouinea, p. 173. " ' r > 



Oriolus forsteni, Schl. Mm. P.-B. Coraces, p. 112 ; Gray, Ilaml-l. B. 

 1. p. 293. 



Adidt. Above brown washed with olive, the feathers bcino- ob- 

 scurely edged witli this colour, the hind neck decidedly browner • 

 head dull olive-yellow, all the feathers mesially streaked with 

 bkckish ; lores dull grey ; round the eye a bare space, larger behind 

 it ; ear-coverts dark brown ; sides of neck grey ; under surface of 

 body dull yellow, with brighter yellow margins to the feathers of 

 the breast, the throat much duller and more greenish, with indica- 

 tions of dusky shaft-streaks ; lower breast and abdomen ashy grey 

 with yello^\^sh margins to the feathers, especially distinct "on the 

 under tail-coverts ; under M-ing-coverts resembUng the breast- 

 wings above brown, edged with oHve-yellow like the back, the 

 greater coverts and quills brighter, and edged on the outer web with 



