1. oKioLtrs. 215 



ii-i. Oriolus melanocephalus. 



The Black-headed Indian Ictous, Ediranls, Birds, p. 77, pi. 77. 



Le Loriot de Bengale, Brks. Oru. ii. p. 329. 



Oi'iolus melanucephalus, Linn. S. N. i. p. IGO ; Wagler, iSi/st. Av. 

 Oriulus, sp. 8 ; Jcrd. Madr. Journ. x. p. 262 ; Gray. Gtn. B. i. 

 p. 232 ; Bhjth, J. A. S. B. xv. p. 45; id. Cat. B. Mm. A. S. B. 

 p. 215 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 346 ; Hor.<<f. Sf Moore, Cat. B. Mm. E.I. 

 Co. i. p. 269 ; Jerd. B. Lid. ii. p. 110 ; Schl. Mm. P.-B. Coraces, 

 p. 106 ; Gray, Iland-l. B. i. p. 292 ; Ball, S. F. 1873, p. 71, 1874, 

 p. 412 ; Hunie, S. F. 1874. p. 477, 1875, p. 133 ; id. Kcsts and Eggs 

 hid. B. p. 301 ; Blyth cS- Wahhn, B. Burm. p. 139. 



Loriot de la Chine, Month. I'l. Enl. 79. 



Loriot rieur, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. vi. pi. 263. 



Oriolus maderaspatanus, FranM. P. Z. S. 1831, p. 118. 



Oriolus maccoahii, Tickell, J. A. S. B. ii. p. 577. 



Oriolus hodo-snnii, Stvains. An. in Menag. p. 290 ; Blyth, J. A. S. B. 

 xi. p. 460; Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 83 ; Gray, Gen. B. i. 

 p. 232. 



Oriolus strigipectus, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 88. 



Adult male. General colour, both above and below, bright golden 

 yellow, intensifying more or less to orange ; head all round, throat, 

 and fore neck black ; scapulars and wing-coverts bright j'ellow like 

 the back ; bastard wing and primarj'-coverts black, the latter yellow 

 for their terminal half, forming a large alar speculum ; quills black, 

 yellow at the base, and having a longitudinal spot of yellow at the 

 tip of the outer web, increasing in extent towards the sccoodaries, 

 the innermost of which have the cntii'e outer web yellow; tail bright 

 yellow, the two middle feathers with a broad subteiminal bar of 

 black, the next feathers on either side with a patch of black on the 

 inner web ; bill pale lake-red ; legs plumbeous ; iris rich red. Total 

 length 10 inches, culmen 1-15, wing 5-55, tail 4, tarsus 1-05. 



Young. Not so bright yellow as the adult, the head being blackish, 

 with olive margins to many of the feathers ; frontal plumes yellow, 

 streaked with black ; sides of face dusky blackish ; throat white, 

 longitudinally streaketl with black ; rest of under surface bright 

 ycUow ; wing-coverts black, with broad yeUow margins ; quills 

 brownish black, the primaries externally edged with whitish, the 

 secondaries with a broad longitudinal spot of yeUow near the tip of 

 the outer web ; tail bright yellow, the two centre feathers dark 

 olive-green, the rest with a blackish subterminal shade, decreasing 

 in extent towards the outermost, on which the black is confined to 

 a longitudinal patch along the outer web. 



Hab. Peninsula of India and the Himalayas, extending through 

 the Burmese countries to I'egu and Tenasscrim. 



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