222 OKIOLID.E. 



gnrds the tail, which, instead of being entirely crimson, has black 

 shafts to the feathers, the two middle ones being washed with black, 

 and the rest with their outer webs for the most part black. . Length 

 of Ming 5-7, tail 4-125. [li. Sivinhoe.) 



Yoioxj male. Head and tibite blackish brown ; back brownish red ; 

 scapulars, wings, sides of breast and bell}', and axillaries brown ; 

 throat, breast, and beUy white, with long blackish brown spots ; 

 rnmp, vent, and a new feather or two on the breast crimson ; tail 

 pale crimson, the two middle feathers entirely washed with brown, 

 the rest only on their outer webs ; shafts of feathers black. Length 

 of wing 5-6, tail 4-125. {li. Swinhoe.) 



All the Formosan birds, in as mature plumage as the Hainan 

 adult, hare purely crimson tails. In the Formosan bird the black 

 disappears ; in the Hainan bird it intensifies with age. {R. Sivinhoe.) 



Hah. Hainan. 



33. Oriolus trailli. 



Pastor traillii, Viqors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 176 ; Gmdd, Cent. B.IIimal. 



Mts. pi. 35 ; lioih/s. J. A. 8. B. v. p. 772. 

 Oriolus trailli, M'tiell. P. Z. S. 1839, p. 160; Blyth, J. A. S. B. xi. 



p. 797 ; Grmj, Gen. B. i. p. 232 ; Bhjth, Cat. B. Mm. A. S. B. 



p. 215 ; Horsf. S,- Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. i. p. 272 : Jerd. B. 



Ind. i. p. 112; Schl. Mus. P.-B. Coraces, p. 114; Hume, 8tr. F. 



1874, p. 477. 

 Psaropholus trailli, Jurd. i^- Selhy, III. Orn. iv. pi. 26; Bp. Consp. i. 



p. 345 ; Gmdd, B. Asia, part xxiii. ; Blyth &■ Wakl. B. Burm. 



p. 139. 

 Analcipus traillii, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 290. 



Young. Above dark brown, the head and hind neck blacker ; 

 rump and upper tail-coverts deep maroon, shaded with brown ; 

 wings blackish, with paler brown edgings ; tail pale maroon, with 

 more or less broad external edgings of dull brown ; lores fulvous, 

 with streaks of brown ; ear- coverts blackish ; cheeks and under 

 surface of body buffy white, streaked with black, narrowly on the 

 throat, more broadly on the breast, the sides of the upper breast 

 being nearly uniform blackish, as are the thighs and under wing- 

 coverts ; xinder tail-coverts maroon. 



Adult. General colour above and below shining maroon-red, the 

 feathers with white bases ; head all roTind glossy black, confined to 

 the throat and jugulum below ; wings black, glossed with greenish, 

 some of the scapulars adjoining the wing externally black ; tail 

 maroon-red, but not so brilliant as the back ; thighs and under wing- 

 coverts black ; bill bluish ; legs dark plumbeous ; iris pale yellow. 

 Total length lU inches, culmen 1-15, wing 5-9, tail 4-6, tarsus 0*95. 



Obs. The very young birds have all the feathers of the upper 

 surface broadly margined with rusty buff, the maroon upper tail- 

 coverts mesially centred with black, while the central tail-feathers 

 are dark maroon-brown, all the others being externally of this colour ; 

 the under surface is distinctly striped. In the next stage, which is 

 fuUy described above, the rusty margins to the dorsal plumes are 



