CHAPTER XVI, 



J 





</, 



THE ORIOLES, 



THERE are yet two birds to be described which 

 Jerdon calls 

 B u 1 b u I s, 

 though 1 can 

 see nothing 

 bulbuline 

 about them 

 and am in- 

 dined to 

 agree with 

 those who 

 would put 

 them with 

 the Orioles. 

 But Jerdon 

 had to invent 

 E n g 1 i s h 

 names for 

 more than 

 a thousand 

 birds, and it 

 is little 



wonder if he 



The lora's NcsL 



was some- 

 times hard-pressed. The one which I will mention 

 first, because it is one of the very commonest birds 







