216 Mr. R. B. Sharpe on the Oriolidse 



Adult female. Golden-yellow above, tinged with olive-green ; 

 quills and wing-coverts brownish-black tinged with olive-green ; 

 tail-feathers marked as in the male, but the feathers olive-green, 

 blackish towards the tip ; throat and breast grey, with black 

 stripes ; flanks bright yellow, with fainter stripes ; loral spot 

 indistinct, dusky; bill brownish-red; feet black. Total length 

 9'5 inches, of bill from front 1, from gape 12, wing 5*9, tail 

 3'3, tarsus '8, middle toe "7, hind toe '4. 



Europe ; North-Eastern Africa {Heuglin) ; Western Africa, 

 Casamanze ( Verreaux) ; Natal [Ayres) ; Damara Land [Anders- 

 son, Chapman); Madagascar [Hartlaub). 



I have, of course, not entered every bibliographical reference 

 to the present bird in the list above given, but have selected 

 those only which bear upon its occurrence in the Ethiopian 

 region. The descriptions above given are those of a fine pair 

 shot near Paris by Mr. Harting on the 1st of June 1868. 

 Another bird in my collection, shot by Andersson at Ondonga, 

 in the Ovampo Country, on October 30th, 1866, is lighter 

 underneath, with the black stripes much more distinct. Mr. 

 Andersson has not determined the sex ; but it would seem to be 

 a young male, as it agrees very well with another specimen from 

 France, so marked in my collection. 



2. Oriolus auratus. 



Le Loriodor, Levaill. Ois. d^Afr. t. 260. 



Oriolus auratus, Vieill. N. Diet. d'H. N. xviii. p. 194 (1817) : 

 Gal. Ois. t. 83 (1825) : Swains. B. W. Afr. ii. p. 33 (1851) : 

 Bonap. Consp. Av. i. p. 348 (1850) : Cab. Mus. Hein.i. p. 209 

 (1850) : Hartl. Beitr. Orn. Westafr. p. 23 (1852) ; J. f. 0. 

 1854, p. 24 : Miill. J. f. 0. 1855, p. 393 : Sundev. Crit. Levaill. 

 p. 53 (1857) : Antin. Cat. Ucc. AfFr. C.-N. p. 44 (1864) : Schl. 

 Mus. P.-B. Coraces, p. 101 (1867) : Hartm. J. f. O. 1867, 

 p. 94: Heugl. J. f. 0. 1867, p. 203; J. f. 0. 1868, p. 324; 

 Orn. N.-O. Afr. i. p. 401 : Gray, Hand-1. B. p. 291 (1869). 



Le Loriot bicolor, Temm. Cat. Syst. Cab. d'Orn. pp. 46, 202 

 (1807). 



0. bicolor, Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 20 (1823) : Haiti. Oni. 

 Westafr. p. 80 (1857) ; J. f. 0. 1861, p. 163 : Monteiro, P. Z. S. 

 1865, p. 93. 



