ORIOLUS. 



Adult Male. Golden yellow, a blackish brown spot between the eye and 

 the bill ; wings and tail black ; a yellow spot on the quills not far from the 

 middle of the wing when closed ; tail feathers terminated with yellow ; bill 

 reddish maroon ; iris red ; feet bluish grey. 



Length. 10 to 10-5 inches; bill at front i ; wing 5-9; tail 3*1; tarsus 

 0.8. 



Adult Female. Greenish olive above, greyish white with a yellowish tinge 

 below, where the plumage is marked by some white distant greyish brown 

 stripes or dashes disposed longitudinally ; wings brown, bordered with olivace- 

 ous grey ; tail olivaceous, tinged with black ; beneath yellowish with a brownish 

 black mark somewhat in the form of an irregular Y ; no dark streak behind 

 the bill and the eye. 



The young of the year resembles the female, but the longitudinal stripes of 

 the lower parts are more numerous and deeper in colour ; bill blackish grey ; 

 iris brown. 



It is said to breed in parts of Europe, laying generally four or five eggs, 

 white or purplish white, speckled with lake red and dusky. 



Hab. The whole of Europe, S.-W. Asia, South Asia, South Africa and 

 Persia. A visitant in Sind during October and November. 



150- OriolUS kundOO, Sykes, P. Z. S., 1832, p. 87; Gray, Gen. B. 

 i. p. 232 ; Blyth, J. A. S. B. xv. p. 49; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 107, No. 470 ; 

 Hume, Lahore to Yarkand, p. 167; Murray, Hdb. Zool. &c., Sind, p. 143 ; 

 Murray, Vert. Zool. Sind, p. 137; Reid. Cat. B. Prov.Mtts. N.-W -P. and 

 Oudh, p. 92. The INDIAN ORIOLE. 



Adult Male. Bright golden yellow above and below; lores, feathers round 

 the eye and a streak through the eye black ; scapulars externally black ; the 

 edge of the wing and a bar formed by the primary coverts yellow ; the bases of 

 the primary coverts black ; quills black ; the primaries edged with yellow ; 

 secondaries with yellow tips ; tail with the central feathers black and narrowly 

 yellow tipped, the next pair black, with a broad yellow tip, the others black 

 at the base and yellow for the greater part of their terminal length ; under 

 wing and tail-coverts golden yellow ; bill deep lake red ; legs plumbeous ; 

 irides blood-red. 



Length. 9 to 9*5 inches; wing 5*5; tail 3*5 ; tarsus 0-95. The female is 

 like the male, but with a slightly greenish tint. 



Hab. Throughout India to Nepaul, Cashmere and Eastern Turkistan. 

 Probably a resident in Sind, but nothing is known of its nidification in the 

 Province. Specimens have been obtained in April, June, September and 

 December. The September birds were the young of the year. 



