318 Mr. R. B. Sharpe on the Oriolidse 



R. B. S.); Niger [Thomson); Angola {Perrein); North-eastern 

 Africa [Heuglin). 



3. Oriolus notatus. (Plate VII. fig. 2.) 



Oriolus notatus, Peters, J. f. 0. 1868, p. 132 : Cab., Van der 

 Deck. Reis., Vogel, iii. p. 33 (1869) : Gray, Hand-1. B. p. 391. 



O. auratus, Gurney, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 2 : Andersson, P. Z. S. 

 1864, p. 6 : Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 135 (1867) : Chapman, 

 Trav. S. Africa, ii. p. 397 (1868) [nee Vieill. ut supra). 



O. anderssoni, Bocage, Jorn. Sc. Lisboa, 1870. 



0. capite aureo : rectricibus externis omnino aureis. 



Hab. In Africa meridionali et orientali. 



Adult male. Above rich golden-yellow, a little paler on the 

 scapnlaries ; least wing-coverts yellow, with a black shaft down 

 the centre of the feather; cubital covex'ts black with a broad 

 margin of yellow ; primary coverts black at the base, with a 

 yellow edging gradually getting broader towards the tip ; quills 

 black, greyish on the underside, secondaries margined with 

 yellow and the outer primaries with white ; middle tail-feathers 

 black, with a yellow tip, the two next to the middle tail-feathers 

 black at the base and for the greater part of the inner web, the 

 four outer tail-feathers yellow ; a black streak from the base of 

 the bill, passing through the eye and produced to the extremity 

 of the ear-covert ; entire under-surface rich golden-yellow ; bill 

 brownish-red; feet black. Total length 8 inches, of bill from 

 front 1*1, from gape 1*2, wing 5 '4, tail 3-1, tarsus '8, middle 

 toe "7, hind toe '35. 



Mozambique (Peters); Momhsis {Van der Decken) ; Damaraand 

 Ovampo Land [Andersson) ; Angola [Anchieta) . 



This very distinct species was described by Professor Peters 

 from a Tette specimen ; but, so far as I can see, the Damara bird 

 belongs to the same species. It forms one of the section of the 

 genus Oriolus with the head golden-yellow, and is allied to O. 

 kundoo, 0. galbula, and O. auratus, from all of which, however, 

 it is at once to be distinguished by the four outer tail-feathers 

 being entirely yellow. From the first two it is also distinguishable 

 by the yellow edging to the wing-coverts, which in those two 

 species are entirely black ; and although 0. auratus approaches 



