504 OBTOLID^E. 



golden yellow ; remainder of the wing black : the primary-coverts 

 tipped yellow ; some of the primaries very narrowly margined with 

 yellowish white about the middle of the outer web ; the secondaries 

 obsoletely tipped with yellowish white ; edge of the wing and the 

 whole lower plumage deep yellow ; the two middle tail-feathers 

 black tipped with yellow, the others progressively more tipped 

 with yellow, the extent of yellow on the outermost feather being 

 about two inches. 



Female. Differs from the male in having the yellow parts less 

 bright, and the back and wing-coverts tinged with green ; black of 

 wing less intense, the primaries more broadly margined with yel- 

 lowish, and the outer webs of the secondaries and tertiaries tinged 

 with green. 



Legs and feet plumbeous ; claws dark horny ; bill earn eons ; iris 

 carmine in the adult, dull red- brown in the young (Hume). 



Length about 11; tail 4'7; wing 6:' tarsus 1; bill from 

 gape 1-6. 



Distribution. The Nicobar Islands, throughout the group. 



517. Oriolus andamanensis. The Andaman Black-naped Oriole. 



Oriolus andamanensis, Tytler, Beavan, Ibis, 1867, p. 326 ; Ball, S. F. 



i, p. 72; Hume, S. F. ii, p. 226, iii, p. 132 ; id. Cat. no. 471 bis ; 



8harpe, Cat. B. M. iii, p. 200. 

 Broderipus andamanensis, Tytler, Walden, Ibis, 1873, p. 305. 



Coloration. Differs from 0. macnirus in being much smaller and 

 in having the nape-band narrower, not exceeding half an inch in 

 breadth. 



Legs and feet plumbeous, sometimes tinged with green ; soles 

 dirty grey : bill carneous or delicate pink ; ridge of culmen in some 

 specimens brown on the terminal half ; iris carmine ; eyelids 

 brownish red (Hume). 



Length about 10: tail 4; wing 5*3: tarsus *9 ; bill from gape 

 1-3. 



Distribution. The Andaman Islands, where this species has been 

 procured on the South Andaman and Macpherson's Straits. 



518. Oriolus kimdoo, The Indian Oriole. 



Oriolus kimdoo, 8ykes, P. Z. 8. 1832, p. 87 ; Blyth, Cat. p. 216 ; 

 Horsf. $ M. Cat. i, p. 271 ; Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 107 ; Hume $ 

 Henders. Lah. to Yarl. p. 200, pi, xi ; Hume, N. E. p. 299 ; 

 Scidly, S. F. iv, p. 140 ; Ball, 8. F. vii, p. 215 ; Hume, Cat. no. 

 470 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. iii, p. 194 ; Scully, 8. F. viii, p. 297 : id. 

 Ibis, 1881, p. 440 ; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 193 ; Gates in Hume's 

 N. $ E. 2nd ed. i, p. 354. 



Pilak, Hind. ; Vanga-pandu, Tel. ; Pawseh, Mahr. ; Pashnool, Kashm. 



Coloration. Male. The whole head, body, and under wing- 

 coverts rich yellow ; lores and a space round and behind the eye 

 black ; middle tail-feathers black with narrow yellow tips, the 



