STAB. Ibe 
ORIOLUS“MEXICANUS. 
O. olivaceus, subtus flavus, gula facie remigibus cau* 
daque atris, remigibus secundaris externe tectri- 
cibusque albis, rectricibus duabus medis excep- 
tis sordido-albo-terminatis, rostro nigro, pedibus 
nigricantibus. 
Oriolus Mexicanus. Linn. Syst. Nat. edit. 12, 1. 
162, 15. | 
_QO. Xanthornus. Gammel. Linn. 1. 391, 13. 
Lesser Bonana Bird. Edwards’ Gleanings, p. 68, 
fi. DAZ? 
Lesser Bonana Oriole, Var? Lath. Syn. i. 2, 439? 
WHITE-SHOULDERED BANANA ORIOLE. 
Olive-yellow oriole, with the belly bright yellow; throat 
and face deep black, united; quills of the wings deep 
black ; wing-coverts aud the outer edges of the secon- 
daries white ; tail deep black and, excepting the two mid- 
dle feathers, tipped with dirty white; beak black ; legs 
blackish ; the base of the upper mandible pale. 
The specimen from which the above description and the 
figure were taken, was killed at St. Andrew’s, in Jamaica, 
by Mr. John Wiles, who most obligingly permitted me to 
examine it, and at the same time informed me that it was 
very common in that district, and that it fed on the ba- 
nana, guava, and other fruits, 
