502 OEIOLIDJE. 



Between the first and second autumns a continual change, tending 

 to the complete adult plumage, takes place, the streaks gradually 

 disappearing, the yellow becoming more intense, and the black 

 marks on the head more pronounced. The young of the different 

 species may generally be identified by the same characters which 

 differentiate the adults. 



514. Oriolus indicus. The Black-naped Oriole. 



Oriolus indicus, Jerd. III. 2nd. Orn. pi. 15 ; Blyth, Cat. p. 216 ; 



Horsf. 8f M. Cat. i, p. 270 ; Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 109 ; Ball, S. F. vii, 



p. 215. 

 Oriolus diffusus, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. iii, p. 197 (1877) ; Legye, Birds 



Ceyl. p. 355. 

 Oriolus indicus (Jerdon), Hume $ Dav. S. F. vi, p. 329 ; Hume, Cat. 



no. 471 ; Oates, B. B. i,p. 211 ; Barnes. Birds Bom. p. 195 ; Hume, 



S. F. xi, p. 186. 



The Black-naped Indian Oriole, Jerd. 



Fig. 147. Head of 0. indicus. 



Coloration. Male. Lores and a streak through the eye, widening 

 to a band three quarters of an inch wide across the nape, black ; the 

 whole remaining plumage bright yellow ; median pair of tail- 

 feathers black with narrow yellow tips ; the others progressively 

 more tipped with yellow towards the outer pair, which is tipped to 

 the extent of an inch and a half ; primaries black, tipped and edged 

 narrowly with yellowish white, the secondaries more broadly edged 

 with the same; tertiaries with the whole outer webs and a portion 

 of the inner webs next the shaft yellow ; winglet black ; primary- 

 coverts black, tipped with yellow to the extent of about -4 inch ; 

 upper wing-coverts bright yellow, the inner webs of the greater 

 coverts being black. 



Female. Eesembles the male, except that the back is tinged with 

 green. 



In the adult the iris is pink, eyelids pinkish ; bill pink, more or 

 less livid in places ; inside of the mouth flesh-colour; legs and toes 

 deep plumbeous ; the claws dark brown ; young birds have the bill 

 brown or black. 



Length 10-7 ; tail 4; wing 6-1 ; tarsus 1-05 ; bill from gape 1-4. 



Distribution. Occurs over a considerable portion of the Indian 

 peninsula, but is rare. The British Museum contains specimens 

 from various parts of the western coast from Eatnagiri down to 



