The Making of Species 



inland creature ; both are sooty black, with a 

 conspicuous white patch on the lower back. 



The Pied Babbling Thrush (Crateropus bicolor) 

 of Africa is singularly like the Pied Myns.(Gr<zu- 

 lipica melanoptera) of Java, both being of about 

 the same size, with white body and black wings 

 and tail quills. This, we may add, is a very 

 unusual colouration among small birds. 



The black - headed Oriole (Oriolus melano- 

 cephalns) of India is very similar in appearance 

 to the common Troupial (Icterus vulgaris) of 

 Brazil ; indeed, the troupials, a purely American 

 group, are so like the old world orioles in colour 

 that they usurp their name in America. 



The little insectivorous lora (&githina tiphia] 

 of India strongly resembles in size and colour 

 a Siskin (Chrysomitris colambiana) from South 

 America, the males in both being black above 

 and yellow below, while in the females the black 

 is replaced by olive-green. 



Another Indian babbler (Cephalopyrus flam- 

 miceps), yellowish-green, with orange forehead, is 

 closely copied by, or copies, the well - known 

 Brazilian Saffron -finch (Sycalis flaveola). 



In Fergusson Island, near New Guinea, there 

 is a ground pigeon (Otidiphaps insularis) which 

 is black with chestnut wings, like several of the 

 powerful ground cuckoos of the genus Centropus, 

 but no species of these cuckoos so coloured 

 appears to inhabit the island. 



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