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blackish ; under parts white, on the lower throat, breast, and 
flanks washed with bright-yellow, the vent and under tail-coverts 
being entirely yellow; throat, breast, and flanks, more or less 
distinctly streaked with blackish-brown. 
Young male: Closely resembles the female, but is only a little 
more yellow in tinge of plumage.—Dresser. 
Occurs in Sind as a somewhat rare visitor during October and 
November. 
Oriolus indicus, Jerdon. 
471.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 109; Butler, Deccan ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 403; Swinhoe and Barnes, Central 
India; Ibis, 1885, p. 69. 
THE BLACK-NAPED INDIAN ORIOLE. 
Length, 10; wing, 6 ; tail, 3°5 ; tarsus, 0°87 ; bill at front, 1:12. 
Bill pinky-red ; irides rich blood-red ; legs plumbeous. 
Bright yellow, greenish on the back and ‘coverts; a black horse- 
shoe mark extending from the base of the bill through the eyes 
to the nape ; tail black ; the central feathers barely tipped yellow, 
the others tipped broadly, the outermost feathers for 1} inches 
or so; wings black, the secondaries broadly margined with pale 
yellow, the tertiaries with the whole outer web, and part of the 
inner webs, greenish yellow ; primaries also tipped with the same : 
a bright yellow wing-spot formed by the tips of the coverts of the 
primaries. 
Females differ in being slightly greenish above, and in the 
yellow generally being not quite so vivid. 
The young are yellowish-green above, with little or no trace of 
the occipital crescent ; whitish beneath, with dark central lines ; 
bill infuscated. 
In a further stage the under-parts are a weaker yellow, with 
black shafts to the breast-feathers more or less developed. 
The Black-naped Indian Oriole is very rare. It has only been 
procured at Savantvadi and Ratnagiri. Colonel Swinhoe saw it at 
Manpore, Central India. 
Oriolus melanocephalus, Zin. 
472.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 110; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. III, p. 474; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. 
IX, p. 403. 
THE BENGAL BLACK-HEADED ORIOLE. 
Length, 95; expanse, 16; wing, 5°5; tail, 3:5; tarsus, 0°88 ; 
bill at front, 1. 
Bill pale lake-red ; irides rich-red ; legs plumbeous. 
Whole head, neck and breast in front, dee p-black ; rest of the 
plumage rich dark-yellow above, slightly paler beneath, on the 
lower abdomen and under tail-coverts ; wings black, with a small 
yellow band formed by the primary-coverts ; tertiaries with the 
