210 OR [OLID j;. 



dull golden yellow ; tail brownish, externally washed with olive- 

 yellow, the inner webs slightly tipped with whitish. Total length 

 12-4 inches, culmen 1-4, wing 5-85, tail 5-3, tarsus 1-2. 



Hub. Ceram. 

 a. Ad. sk. Ceram, 1859. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



1 8. Oriolus striatus. 



Oriolus striatus, Quotj et Gaim. Voy. de I'Adrol. Zuol. i. p. 195, pi. ix. 



fig. 2 ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 232 '; Schl. M. P.-B. Coraces, p. 113 ; 



Gray, Han'd-l. B. i. p. 29:]. 

 Mimeta melanotis, Bp. Comp. i. p. 34G {nee Mill/. MS.). 

 Minieta striata, Scl. Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. p. 159; Finsch, Neii-Guinea, 



p. 173; Meyer, SB. Ahad. Wten, Ixx. p. 218; Salvad. Ann. Mus. 



Civ. Genov. vii. pp. 779, 828. 



AduH male. General colour above brown, streaked with black 

 down the centre of the feathers of the hind neck and mantle ; the 

 dorsal plumes washed with greyish ; head dull greyish, aU the 

 feathers broadly streaked with black, these streaks narrower on the 

 nape and hinder neck, which are pale greyish ; lores and an indi- 

 stinct eyebrow dull grejnsh, narrowly streaked with black ; sides of 

 face and throat light greyish, thickly streaked with black, the ear- 

 coverts darker than the sides of the face, the black streaks much 

 thicker on the malar line and sides of the neck, the latter appearing 

 to have a large triangular black patch ; rest of under surface of 

 body light ashy brown, streaked with darker brown down the centres 

 of the feathers, these streaks becoming narrower on the abdomen 

 and disappearing on the under tail-coverts, which are tipped with 

 whitish ; under wing-coverts and axillaries light reddish browTi, the 

 outermost dark brown, margined and tipped with light fulvous 

 brown ; wings above dark brown, aU the feathers edged with paler 

 brown, some of the least wing-coverts with greyish ; tail-feathers 

 dark brown, narrowly edged with paler brown and tijjped with light 

 fulvous on the inner web ; " eyes dark brown " ( Wallace). Total 

 length 12 inches, culmen 1-35, wing 5-75, tail 4-95, tarsus 1. 



F,.male. Similar to the male. Total length 12-3 inches, culmen 

 l'3o, wing .5'55, tail 5-2, tarsus 1'05. 



Yoimij. Similar to the adult, but more dingy, especially on the 

 head, the breast more broadly and distinctly streaked with black, 

 and having the wing-coverts and quills edged with rusty rufous. 



Hub. New Guinea, Salwatti, Mysol, and Waigiou. 



a. Jnv. sk. New Guinea. Zoological Society. 



b. S ILiv. sk. New Guinea. A. R. WiiUace, Esq. [C.]. 



c. d. 'cS ad. sk. Dorev, N. G. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.J. 

 e. Ad. sk. Port'Moresby, N. G. Rev. S. M'Farlane [C.]. 

 /. (S ad. sk. Waigiou. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.l. 

 g. S ad. sk. Mysol. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.J. 



