Popular JButtonarp nf gntmatrtr Mature. 4es] 



almost to make them question the nature 

 of the act they were committing. He was 

 seven feet high, with a broad expanded 

 chest, and narrow waist. His chin was 

 fringed with a beard that curled neatly on 

 each side, and formed an ornamental rather 

 than a frightful appendage to his visage. 

 His arms were long even in proportion to 

 his height, but his legs were much shorter. 

 Upon the whole he was a wonderful beast to 

 behold, and there was more about him to 

 excite amazement than fear. His hair was 

 smooth and glossy, and his whole appear- 

 ance showed him to be in the full vigour of 

 youth and strength." 



ORBICULA. A genus of Conchifera, found 

 in large masses on the coasts of Peru and 

 Chili, and also in the Northern seas. The 

 shells of these bivalves are horny, sub-orbi- 

 cular, rather compressed, the upper valve 

 patelliform, the lower flat. In the centre of 

 the latter is a small oval depression, with an 

 oblique fissure in it for the passage of a 

 tendon ; four muscular impressions in each 

 valve ; no hinge. The animal has two short 

 ciliated arms. 



ORGYIA.orVAPOURER MOTH. The 

 genus Orguia comprises those species of Moths 

 which fly by day, with a vapouring kind of 

 motion (whence their English name), which 

 have unwieldy partners, furnished with 

 slight rudiments of wings, and therefore in- 

 capable of' flight. The male of the common 



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ALB. 



species of this genus (O. anliqva), which we 

 have here selected, varies from one inch and 

 a sixth to one inch and a half in the expanse 

 of the fore wings, which are of a red brown, 

 wilh dusky clouds and two undulated strigae, 



TWO CATERPILLARS, AND TH2 ALMOST 



WINGLESS FEMALE OF THE 



VAPO0BER MOTH. 



the second of which terminates in a kidney- 

 shaped white spot near the anal angle of 

 the fore wings, and with a pale clay Coloured, 

 crescent-shaped, discoidal spot. The hind 



wings are dark orange-brown. The female ! 

 is dull ash-coloured, with the rudiments of I 

 wings very pale. The caterpillar is very 

 handsome, being spotted with red, and with 

 four thick whitish tufts of hair on the back, 

 and with long pencils of clavate hairs on the j 

 sides of the head, at the sides of the body, ; 

 and over the tail. The ground colour of the j 

 body of the male is darker than in the fe- j 

 male, which is varied with pale yellow and ; 

 gray. They feed on a great variety of trees, 

 and are found throughout the summer. The 

 Moth appears in the autumn, and is seen 

 flying during the day-time, even in the 

 streets of London. 



ORIOLE. A name applied to birds of dif- 

 ferent groups, the European Oriole being 

 allied to the Thrushes, the American Oriole 

 to the Starlings. The first species we describe 



GALBULA.) 



Is the GOLDEN ORIOLE (Oriolus gatt>u7a\ 

 or, as it is sometimes called, the GOLDEN 

 Tiiitrsii, is during the summer months an 

 inhabitant of many of the temperate and 

 warmer parts of Europe, though its presence 

 in this country is very rare. It is al>out the j 

 size of a blackbird, but its bill is larger, j 

 arched, and slightly notched at the tip. Its : 

 colour is a very fine bright golden yellow, ! 

 except the wings and tail, which are black ; ; 

 but the quill feathers and some of the larger ! 

 coverts are tipped with yellow, the latter 

 forming a small yellow spot on the edge of . 

 the wing : all the tail feathers, except the ! 

 two middle ones, are tipped with yellow : ' 

 the bill is brownish-red, and between the ! 

 bill and eye is a black stripe ; the legs are ', 

 brown. The female differs widely from the 

 male in colour : where he is yellow, she is 

 of a dull olive green ; her wing-coverts, se- 

 condary quills, and upper parts of the tail 

 feathers, partake of the same colour, but are 

 much darker ; the quills and lower euds of 

 the tail feathers are dusky, and, as well as 

 the former, are all tipped, more or less, with 

 pale dull yellow. This bird is of a migratory 

 nature, and is supposed to spend the winter 

 in Asia and Africa, and to pass the summer 

 in Europe. When about to construct its 

 nest, the Golden Oriole selects the forked 

 extremity of some slender branch (usually 

 in the lower part of a high tree), and frreath- 

 ing the two forks round with straws, grasses, ' 

 or other vegetable fibres proper for the pur- j 

 pose, at length connects the two ends in j 

 order to form the verge of the nest ; then 

 continuing the straws from the one side to | . 



