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Pyrruocorax*, Cuv. 
The Chocards have the compressed, arcuated, and sloped bill of the 
Thrushes; but their nostrils are covered with feathers, as in the Crows, 
with which they were, for a long time, united. There is one in Europe 
about the size of the Corv. monedula. 
Corvus pyrrhocorax, L.; Chocard des Alpes, Enl. 531; Vieill. 
Galer. 106; Naum. 57, 1. All black; the bill yellow; feet brown 
at first, then yellow, and in the adult, red; it builds in the rocky fis- 
sures of the highest mountains, whence, in the winter, it descends into 
the valleys in large flocks. It feeds on insects, snails, grain, and 
fruit, and does not despise carrion. 
There is another in India, 
Pyrr hexanemus, Cuv.; the Sicrin, Vaill. Afr. pl. Ixxxii. Dis- 
tinguished by three barbless stalks as long as the body; they grow 
on each side among the feathers which cover the ear. 
T can find no character sufficient to warrant their removal from the 
Thrushes, 
Ortoxus, Lin. 
Or the Orioles, whose bill, similar to that of the Thrushes, and is merely 
a little stronger; the feet a little shorter, and the wings a little longer, 
in proportion. Linneus, and most of his followers, improperly united 
Cassici with them, to which they have no other resemblance than that of 
colours. 
O. galbula, L.; Le loriot d’Europe, Enl. 26; Golden Thrush, 
Yellow Thrush of the Germans, &c. Somewhat larger than the 
Thrush; the male is of a fine yellow; wings, tail, and a spot be- 
tween the eye and the bill, black; tip of the tail yellow. During 
its two first years, however, the yellow is replaced by an olive, and 
the black by a brown, which is always the state of the female. 
This bird suspends its skilfully wrought nest to branches of trees, 
feeds on cherries, and other fruits, and, in the spring, on insects. It 
is very shy, remains in France but a little time during the summer, 
and travels in pairs, or by threes, 
India produces some species tolerably similar to the preceding }, 
but we must particuiarly distinguish from among that number the 
Oriolus regens, Col. 320—Sericula regens, Less. which is of the 
finest silky black, with beautiful orange yellow, velvet feathers on 
the head and neck, and a large spot of the same colour on the 
wing f. 
Gymunops, Cuv. 
The same strong bill as the Orioles; the nostrils round, without scales 
~ * Vieill. has adopted this name and genus. 
} Oriolus chinensis, Enl. 570;—Or. melanocephalus, Enl. 79, or Loriot rieur, Vaill. 
Afr. 263;—the Loriot d’or, Vaill., 260; Vieill. Gal. 83;—the Coudougnan, Vaill. 2, 
61;—the Oriolus xanthonotus, Horsf. Jav. 
{ M. Lesson (Voy. Duperr., pl. xx.) gives as its female, a Thrush-coloured bird 
which differs considerably in its proportions. 
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