506 ORIOLID^E. 



i, p. 268 ; Stoliczka, J. A. 8. B. xxxix, pt. ii, p. 317 ; Sharpe, Cat. 

 B. M. iii, p. 213 ; Hume fy Dav. S. F. vi, p. 330 j Hume, Cat. 

 no. 473 bis ; Oates, B. B. i, p. 215. 



Coloration. Male. The whole head, neck, chin, throat, and 

 breast black ; abdomen and flanks white, streaked with black ; 

 under tail-coverts yellow ; sides of the breast tinged with yellow ; 

 axillaries grey ; under wing-coverts black, margined with yellow ; 

 back, scapulars, lesser wing-coverts, rump, and upper tail-coverts 

 yellow ; median wing-coverts black, broadly tipped with yellow ; 

 the remaining coverts and all the quills black, most of them very 

 narrowly edged with yellow ; tail black, tipped with yellow, very 

 narrowly on the median pair of feathers, and to an increasing 

 extent outwardly. 



Female. The whole upper plumage, with the lesser wing-coverts 

 and tertiaries, olive-yellow, and the feathers of the head with dusky 

 striations ; lores grey ; feathers round the edges of the eyelids 

 yellow ; the ear-coverts olive-yellow, with paler shafts ; chin and 

 throat whitish ; breast, abdomen, and flanks white, streaked with 

 black ; under tail-coverts yellow ; median and greater wing-coverts 

 brown, edged with olive-yellow ; primaries dark brown, very nar- 

 rowly edged with pale yellow ; secondaries dark brown, broadly 

 edged with olive-yellow ; tertiaries wholly olive-yellow ; tail olive- 

 yellow, all the feathers tipped with bright yellow, as in the male, 

 and all but the middle feathers with the portion near the shaft 

 more or less dark brown. 



Owing to the adult female in this species being streaked, the 

 young resemble her closely, but the wing-coverts of the latter are 

 always edged with ferruginous. The young male in passing to the 

 adult stage undergoes the same changes as the young of the other 

 Yellow Orioles. Occasionally an apparently adult male is found 

 with black spots on the back and black margins to the rump- 

 feathers. 



The legs and feet are plumbeous blue or very dark plumbeous, 

 the bill very dark fleshy or pale fleshy brown ; the irides crimson 

 (Hume <$f Damson). 



Length 8 ; tail 2*8 ; wing 4'4 ; tarsus '8 ; bill from gape 1-1. 



Distribution. The extreme south of Tenasserim, extending down 

 the Malay peninsula to Sumatra, Java, and Borneo. 



521. Oriolus melanocephalus. The Indian Black-headed Oriole. 



Oriolus melanocephalus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i, p. 160 (1766) ; Blyth, Cat. 

 p. 215; Horsf. $ M. Cat. i, p. 269; Jerd. B. L ii, p. 110 j Sto- 

 liczka, J. A.' S. B. xxxvii, pt. ii, p. 39; Hume, N. $ E. p. 301 ; 

 Butler, S. F. iii, p. 474 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. iii, p. 215 ; Anders. 

 Yunnan Exped., Aves, p. 660 ; Hume, Cat. no. 472 ; Leyge, Birds 



Oriolus 

 ii, p. Ill; Hume, J. A. S. B. xxxix,' pt. ii, p. 118; id. S. F. 



