1. ORIOLUS. 213 



with pale rufous ; tail greyish brown, tipped with white, much 

 more largely on the inner web ; under wing-coverts sandy buff, the 

 outermost with black bases, giving a mottled appearance to the edge 

 of the wing ; bill blackish brown. 

 Hub. Australia. 



a. Ad. sk. Australia. 



b. Ad. sk. Australia. Capt. King [P.]. 



c. Juv. sk. Australia. Linuean Society [P.]. (T}-pe 



of M. meruloides.) 



d. 2 ad. sk. Claremont Isles, X.E. Aus- Capt. Stanley [P.]. 



tralia, Sept. 4, 1848 {J. 

 yiacriUlicray) . 

 e,f. Ad. sk. Queensland. Purchased. 



22. Oriolus steerii. (Plate X.) 



Adult. General colour olive-yeUow, darker on the head and rather 

 brighter towards the lower back and rump ; wing-coverts olive- 

 yellow like the back, the greater series dark grey, externally olive- 

 yellow ; quills blackish, externally washed with grey, the secondaries 

 with olive-yellow, the innermost being entirely of this colour ; two 

 centre tail-feathers olive-yellow, with an indistinct spot of black 

 near the tip ; rest of the tail-feathers jet-black, yellow towards the 

 base of the inner web, and having a large spot of yellow near the 

 tip of the inner web, these spots smaller towards the centre of the 

 taU, the outer webs also olivaceous at their tips ; ear-coverts dull 

 yellowish olive ; lores, cheeks, throat, and entire breast uniform 

 bluish grey ; rest of under surface of body white, very broadly 

 streaked with black ; under tail-coverts bright yellow, with dusky 

 basal streaks ; under wing-coverts grey like the breast, the outer- 

 most with olivaceous edgings ; biU red. Total length 9 inches, cul- 

 men I'Oo, wing 4-75, tail 3-35, tarsus 0-9. 



Hah. Philippine Islands : Xegros and EasUan. 



a. Ad. sk. Negros. Dr. J. B. Steere [C.]. (One of the 



typical specimens.) 



23. Oriolus xanthonotus. 



Oriolus xanthonotus, Horsf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. lo-S ; Temm. Fl. 



Col. 214 : Horsf. Zool Research, in Java, Birds, pi. 12 ; Wayl. 



Sijst. Av. Oriolus, sp. 9 ; Grat/, Gen. B. i. p. 232 ; Bhjth, J. A. 's. 



B. XV. p. 49 ; id. Cat. B. Mas. A. S. B. p. 346 ; Horsf. ^- Moore, 



Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. i. p. 268; Pelz. Reis. Xovara, Voij. pp. 75, 



151 : Schl. Mm. P.-B. Coraces, p. 109; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 292 ; 



Salvad. Ucc. Bom. p. 277. 

 Oriolus leucogaster, Temm. Pi. Col. 214 (texts, ex Reinic. MS.). 

 Oriolus castanopterus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xi. p. 796 ; Gray, Gen. B. 



i. p. 232. 

 Xanthonotus leucogaster, Bj). C. R. xxxviii. p. 538. 



Adult male. Above from the nape to the upper tail-coverts bright 

 yellow ; scapulars blackish, externally yeUow ; wings entirely black 

 excepting the least wing-coverts, which are bright yellow like the 



