ORIOLUS NOTATUS 7 



" This Oriole is not found in the forest region. It is generally 

 observed in pairs, frequenting open country, and is probably 

 a resident in the Hinterland." In Togoland specimens have 

 been collected at many places and at all seasons. At the 

 Niger, Thomson obtained a specimen at Abo, and Dr. Hartert 

 a pair at Loko, and considered it to be rare in that district. 

 I cannot trace the range further south on the West Coast, 

 although the type was supposed to have been discovered in 

 Angola by Perrein. 



Specimens have been collected by Bohndorff at Sassa in 

 the Niam Niam country, by Emin at Redjaf, Kiri, Mabero, 

 Rimo and Wandi, and by Antinori in the Djur country. 



According to Heuglin it is a resident in the warmer parts 

 of North-east Africa, but does not range into Abyssinia. 

 He met with it on the western slopes of the Amhara 

 highlands on the Upper Eahab, at Galabat and at Fazogl. 



Oriolus notatus. 



Oriolus notatus, Peters, J. f. 0. 1868, p. 132 Tete ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1870, p. 



218, pi. 7, fig. 2 ; id. Cat. B. M. iii. p. 196 (1877) ; Siielley, B. Afr. 



I. No. 570 (1896) ; Eeichen, Vog. Afr. ii. p. 656 (1903). 

 Oriolus anderssoni, Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. 1870, p. 342. 



Adults. Very similar to 0. auratus, from wbich it differs in the bill being 

 slightly shorter and stouter, and in the colouring of the quills, primary- 

 coverts and tail ; quills with the yellow edges of the secondaries wide to the 

 base of the ^feathers ; primaries with stronger white margins ; primary- 

 coverts with broad yellow ends ; tail bright yellow with the exception of the 

 four centre feathers, which are black with golden ends and margins, the 

 remainder of the black being almost confined to the basal portion of the 

 shafts of the four pairs of outer feathers. Iris red ; bill pale brownish red ; 

 feet dusky grey. Total length 9-0 and 9-8 inches, culmen 0-95 and 1-05, 

 wing 5-5 and 5-6, tail 3-3, tarsus 09. Okovango E. (Andersson) and 

 Kilimanjaro (Johnston). 



Immature. Differ from the adults in having the dark patch on sides of 

 head less distinctly marked ; upper parts more olive ; pale ends of primary 



