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CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SEXES. This bird is 

 larger than the Crow Black Bird, the head, 

 throat, middle of the back, wings, and tail, black, 

 remainder of the plumage a bright orange color. 

 Across the wings there are two oblique bars of 

 white ; on the top of the head, and below the 

 bill, there are elongated feathers, which the bird 

 can raise at pleasure. The plumage of the fe- 

 male of these birds is duller and fainter in the 

 colors. 



LOCATION. Found in different parts of South 

 . America, also, on the Island of Jamaica Resi- 

 dent. 



CACIQUE ORIOLE. 



This species is about the size of a Crow Black- 

 bird. The color of the plumage is glossy black, 

 on the shoulders is a broad strip of yellow ; also 

 the rump and upper part of the tail, excepting 

 the two middle feathers of the tail, which are 

 black. 



RED RUMPED ORIOLE. 



This is an elegant species, although there is not 



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