212 ORIOLIDJi:. 



a. Ad. sk. E. Ilalmahera, A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



( Type of species.) 



b. Ad. sk. Gilolo. A. E. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



21. Oriolus viridis. 



Green Grakle, Lath. Gen. Syn. Suppl. ii. p. 129. 



Gracula viridis, Lat?i. Tncl. Orn. Suppl. p. xxviii. 



Striated Eoller, Lath. Goi. Si/n. Suppl. ii. p. 122. 



Coracias sagittata, Lath. Lnd. Orn. Suppl. p. xxvi. 



Oriolus vaiiegatus, Vieill. K. Did. d''Hist. Nat. xviii. p. 196 (nee 



Cui\). 

 Oriolus viridis, Vieill. N. Diet, xviii. p. 197; Wajil. Syst. Av. 



Oriolus, sp. 6 ; Gould, B. Aiistr. iv. pi. 1.3; G)-(ii/, Gen. B. i. 



p. 232; Schl. M. P.-B. Coraces, p. 110; Diggles, Orn. Austr. 



part xvi. ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 293. 

 I'hilemon sagittatus, Vieill. N. Diet, xxviii. p. 4-30. 

 Mimetes viridis, Kiny, Survey Intertrop. Coasts Austr. ii. p. 419. 

 Mimeta viridis, T7//. <S" Horsf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 32G ; Jard. l^- 



Selbi/, III. Orn. ii. pi. 61 ; Bp. Camp. i. p. 346; Cab. Mus. Hein. 



Th.'i. p. 211 ; Gould, Handb. B. Austr. i. p. 462. 

 Mimeta meruloides, Viy. &f Horsf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 327 ; Gray, ■ 



Gen. B. i. p. 232. 



Adult. Dull olive-Yellowish above, the feathers with iudistiuct 

 shaft-streaks of blackish, aud somewhat of a greyish shade on the 

 edges of many of them ; lores dull grej'ish ; sides of face duU oli- 

 vaceous ; wings brown, aU the feathers externally washed with 

 grey, the lesser wing-coverts olive-yellowish, duller thau the back, 

 the greater series, the primary-coverts, and secondaries narrowly 

 tipped with white, the primaries externally edged with this colour 

 also ; tail brown, washed with grey, especially the two centre 

 feathers, all the others tipped largely with white on the inner web, 

 more minutely on the outer one ; render surface of body white, all 

 the feathers broadly streaked with black, these streaks being less 

 pronounced on the centre of the abdomen and absent on the under 

 tail-coverts ; throat dull olivaceous, the fore neck greyish, with 

 narrow black mesial streaks ; breast and sides of body washed with 

 olive-yellow ; bill dull fleshy red ; feet lead-colour ; iris scarlet. 

 Total length 10 inches, culmen 1*2, wing 5-95, tail 4-5, tarsus 1. 



Obs. " The sexes, when fully adult, differ so little in colour that 

 they can scarcely be distinguished ; the male, however, is of a more 

 uniform tint about the head, neck, and throat, and has the yellowish 

 olive of the upper surface of a deeper tint than the female."' (Govld.) 

 Young. Browner tlian the adult, slightly washed with olivaceous 

 above, the feathers mesially streaked with blackish, more closely 

 and numerously on the crown ; over the eye au indistinct huffy 

 white eyebrow, streaked with dark brown ; sides of face and ear- 

 coverts uniform didl brownish ; fore part of checks and under sur- 

 face of body white, broadly streaked with blackish brown, these 

 streaks much narrower on the abdomen and absent on the under 

 tail-coverts ; wings brown, the primaries externally washed with 

 grej-ish, the wing-coverts and, secondaries rather broadly margined 



