AFRICAN GOLDEN ORIOLE. 

 Oriolus auratus, VIEILLOT. 



PLATE I. 



Golden yellow ; stripe beyond the eye and over the ears 

 black ; wing-covers and broad margins of the secondary 

 and tertial quills, yellow ; bill red. 



Le Loriodor, Le Vaitt. Ois. cPAfrique^ vi. pi. 260, p. 49. 

 Oriolus auratus, Vieill. Encyc. Metk. 695. 



LE VAILLANT, who first described this richly co- 

 loured Oriole as a native of Southern Africa, remarks 

 that it is there only known as a bird of passage, 

 arriving at the fruit season and disappearing soon 

 after. It is probably, therefore, one of those migra- 

 tory species, which, like the grakles already noticed, 

 usually reside in Equinoctial Africa and migrate 

 southerly during autumn. Our author mentions 

 that he had received specimens of the European 

 Oriole from Senegal, but seems not to be aware 

 that this also is a native of the same country 

 although he expressly says that it does not build in 

 Southern Africa. Like others of its genus, it only 

 inhabits the deepest forests; and from constantly 

 perching upon the tops of the highest trees, is very 

 difficult to shoot. 



