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INSESSOJIKS. 



DEM'IROSrixES. 



MERULIDX. 



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THE GOLDEN ORIOLE. 



Oriolus gallmla, Golden Oriole, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 303. 



Mont. Ornith. Diet. 

 Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 109. 

 Flem. Brit. An. p. 66. 

 Selby, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 176. 

 Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 102. 

 Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. ii. 

 Temm. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 129. 



Le Lor tot , 



Orioius. Generic Characters.— The form of the beak is that of an elon- 

 gated cone, but slightly depressed at the base ; upper mandible ridged above. 



