32 BIRDS. PICJE. 6-9. 



the ridge of the wing, lower-part of the quills and 

 rump rich blue: upper-part and tips of the quilh 

 dusky. 



Roller. Br. ZeoL app. t. 2. Lewint, 41. Donov. t. 33. 



Length 12 inches and a half: size of the jay. 



Bill dusky, with briftles at the bafe, not covering the nostrils : irif- 

 light hazel : orbits rather bare of feathers : coverts on the ridge of 

 the wing rich blue, beneath them pale green : tail forked, light 

 blue, the outer-feathers ftriped with black above, beneath with deep 

 blue ; the reft dull green : legs dirty-yellow : claws blackish. 



6. ORIOLUS. Oiiole. 



45. O. Galbula Golden yellow : lores black : wings 

 black with a yellow patch in the middle : tail black, 

 the oiHer-feaihers }ellow on the lower half. 



Golden Oriole. Br. Zool. app. t. 4. Lewin. t. 42. Donovan, t. 7. 



Length 9 inches and a halt : fize of the black-bird. 

 Bill brownish-red : iris red : wings with yellow marks near thg 

 back ; 2 middle tail-feathers black, inclining to olive at the bafe, 

 tipt with yellow : legs lead-colour : claws black. 



Female dull green-brown where the male is yellow : wings dusky: 

 tail dirty-green, whitish at the ends, except the 2 middle-feathers. 



7. CUCULUS. Cuckow. 



46. C. canorus. Brownish-grey : neck and breast whitish 

 with transverse undulate blackish streaks : tail round- 

 ed, blackish ; the outer feathers spotted with white. 



Common Cuckow. Br. Zool. t. 36. Lewin t. 44. Donovan t. 41. 



Length 14 inches : extent 25 inches : weight 5 ounces. 



Bill yellow with a dusky tip : iris yellow : margins of the eyelids, 

 gape, and palate faffron-red : wings reaching nearly to the end of tine 

 tail; the feathers dusky, with oval white i'pots on the inner-webs : 

 tail of 10 very unequal feathers, the 2 middle-ones blackish, all tipt 

 with white : legs very short, yellow : daws dusky. 



female with the neck and breast tawny-brown, with dusky birs : 

 wing-coverts with pale rusty fpots. Young bird brown, the feathers 

 edged with white. 



8. YUNX. Wryneck.. 



47 . Torquilla. YUNX. 



Wryneck. Lewin t. 51. Donovan t. 83. Walcot t. 44. 



Length 7 inches : extent 1 1 inches : weight 10 drachms. 



Bill pale lead colour : tongue 2 inches and a quarter long, mifsile, 

 cylindrical : iris light hazel : top of the head and back divided by a 

 list of black and ferruginous strokes : upper part of the head and 

 neeh, back, rump; and upper tail-coverts cinereous, with dusky tranf- 

 verfe undulate lines ; chin and forepart of the neck yellowish-white, 

 with tranfverfe dusky lines : lower-part of the breast belly, and sides 

 whitish, with triangular dusky fpots : iving-ccverts dull rufous, with 

 grey fpots: greater quills dusky, with quadrangular ferruginous 

 fpou on the outer-webs: tail rounded, cinereous, with 4 dusky bars: 

 legs brown : claws dusky. 



9. PICUS. Woodpecker. 



48. P. martins. Black, the crown of the head rich scarlet. 



Great black Wood-pecker. Lewin t. 45. Donovan t. 13. Wakat /. 4 j. 



Length 17 inches and a half: size of a jackdaw. 



Bill dark-grey, whitish- on the sides: iris pale yellow: tail-fea- 

 thers pointed, the 2 middle-ones longer : legs lead colour, covered 

 on the fore-part with feathers half their length : claws black. 



Ftmale rusty-brown, the hind part oi the head only fcarlet. 



