8 ORIOLUS NOTATUS 



coverts narrower ; tail mostly dusky olive, with the j-ellow of the outer webs 

 confined to their ends, but the yellow extends further down on the 

 inner w'eb. 



The yellow on the tail gradually increases in amount with age ; first it 

 expands on the inner webs and gradually extends over the external webs of 

 the four outer pair of feathers, without their being shed ; throat and centre 

 of breast at first buff, with flanks yellow and streaked with black, gradually 

 changing into uniform yellow. This gradual change is well shown by the 

 following five specimens in the British Museum : a, Benguela (Monteiro) ; b, 

 Karugwe, June (Whyte); c, Ikawa (A. Sharpe) ; d, Lake Shirwa, Aug. (A. 

 Sharpe) ; e, Nyasaland (Whyte). 



The Southern African Golden Oriole replaces 0. auratus 

 to the south of the Equator, and ranges over the whole of 

 Eastern Africa to nearly as far south as the Limpopo and 

 crosses the Continent into Western Africa from the Congo 

 to Damaraland. 



In West Africa this Oriole has been procured by Bohndorff 

 at Kassongo and Kibondo in the Upper Congo district, by 

 Storms during his expedition to Lake Tanganyika, and in 

 Angola by Schutt and Mechow at Malandje and along the 

 Kuango River. It is generally distributed over this part of 

 the continent from the Congo to Damaraland, but never 

 extends beyond the limit of Tropical South Africa, and is 

 rarer to the south than to the north of the Cunene and 

 Zambesi Rivers. Monteiro calls it abundant at Benguela, 

 and in the Portuguese Possession it is known to the natives, 

 according to Anchieta, by the many following names : the 

 " Kimuxoco " at Biballa, the " Cupio " at Quillengues, the 

 " Unguloyombia " at Cacouda, the " Xirongo " or " Xirombo " 

 at Quissange and Quindumbo, and as the "Dicole" at Humbe. 



Andersson writes : " I have only obtained the adult of 

 this splendid Oriole in Damaraland on a few occasions, and 

 that always during the rainy season ; the young, however, 

 are frequently met with ; and at the Okavango River the 



