148 ORIOLID/E. 



Hab. This species has a very wide range, especially in the Indo-Burmese 

 countries. It is spread over the whole Pegu division. Abundant in the 

 Thayetmyo districts. Wardlaw-Ramsay obtained it in Karenne, and Col. 

 Lloyd at Tounghoo. In Tennaserim it is rare. It is recorded from Arrakan, 

 also from Cachar, Munipoor, and Nepaul. (Gates.) Habits those of the last. 



153. OrioluS andamanensiS, Tytler and Beavan, Ibis, 1867, 

 p. 326 ; Ball, Sir. F., 1873, p. 72 ; Hume, Sir. F. 1874, p. 227 ; Sharpe, 

 Cat. B. Br. Mus. iii. p 200. Oriolus Horsfieldi, Blyth, in Mouatfs Andaman 

 IsL p. 352 (nee Sws). Broderipus andamanensis, Walden, Ibis? 1873, p. 305. 

 The ANDAMAN ORIOLE. 



Adult Male. General colour above and below brilliant yellow ; crown of head 

 yellow like the back, from which it is separated by a horse-shoe band of black, 

 drawn from the lores, enclosing the eye and passing round the nape ; wing 

 coverts yellow ; the greater series black on the inner web ; primary coverts 

 black, tipped with yellow ; but not very broadly ; rest of the wings black with 

 only a faint terminal edging of yellow to the quills, forming a little larger 

 spot on the inner secondaries ; central tail feathers black, tipped with yellow and 

 slightly washed with olivaceous near the base ; all the other feathers black at 

 base, which decreases in extent towards the outer tail feathers. (Sharpe.) " Bill 

 carneous or delicate pink ; legs and feet plumbeous, sometimes tinged with 

 green, the soles dirty grey; iris carmine ; the eyelids brownish red." (Hume.) 



The adult female is duller in colour, and the yellow of the feathers decidedly 

 tinged with olivaceous. Bill in the young black. 



Length. 9*5 inches ; wing 5-3 ; tail 4*1 ; tarsus 0*95 ; culmen i p 2. 

 Hal. The Andaman Islands ; Port Blair. 



Nothing is known of the nidification of this species nor of Oriolus 

 macrurus, Blyth, a species found in the Nicobars. It is possible this latter will 

 be found in Burmah. A description is, however, given of the species. 



Above and below bright yellow ; forehead yellow ; the lores, feathers round 

 the eye and remainder of head and nape black; wings black; wing coverts 

 yellow, the greater series black on the inner web ; primaries externally edged 

 with grey ; secondaries narrowly edged with yellowish near the tip, almost im- 

 perceptible ; primary coverts tipped with yellow forming an alar speculum ; two 

 centre tail feathers black with a narrow yellow tip, rest of the feathers yellow 

 with black bases, the extent of the black greater on the inner web; outer 

 tail feathers almost entirely yellow with a very little black near the base. 

 (Sharpe.) Bill carneous ; legs and feet plumbeous ; claws horny ; iris carmine. 

 (Hume.) 



Length. u inches; culmen 1*4; wing 5*2 j tail 4*7; tarsus ri. 



The young bird has the bill of a dull fleshy colour ; iris dull red-brown. 

 (Hume.) 



