PASSERINE. 277 
India produces some species tolerably similar to the prece- 
ding,(1) but we must particularly 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.(2) 
Gymnops, Cuv. 
The same strong beak as the Orioles; the nostrils round, without 
scales or surrounding membrane; a great part of the head naked.(3) 
Some of them have prominences on the beak.(4) In these the 
tongue is pencillated as in Philedon. 
Mzura, Shaw. 
These Birds, whose size has induced some authors to refer them to 
the Gallinacez, by the separation of their toes, (the first joint of the 
external and middle ones excepted, ) evidently belong to the order of 
the Passerinz, and approach the Thrushes in their beak, which is 
triangular at base, elongated, slightly compressed, and emarginate 
near the point. The membranous nostrils are large, and. partly 
covered over by feathers, as inthe Jays. They are distinguished by 
the great tail of the male, which is very remarkable for the three 
sorts of feathers which compose it, viz. the twelve common ones 
_ with very fine and widely separated barbs; two more in the middle 
only one side of which is furnished with thickly set barbs, and two 
external ones curved into the figure of an S, or like the arms of a 
lyre, whose internal barbs, large and thickly set, form a kind of 
broad riband, while those that are external are very short, becoming 
(1) 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. 
(2) M. Lesson (Voy. Duperr., pl. xx,) gives as its female, a Thrush-coloured 
bird which differs considerably in its proportions. 
(3) The Goulin gris (Gracula calva, Gm.), Enl. 200;—the Goulin vert (Mino Du- 
montii, Less. ), Voy. de Duperr., pl. xxv;—the Goulin olive ( Gracula cyanotis, Lath. ; 
Merops cyanotis, Shaw). 
(4) The Corbicalao, Vaill., Ois. d’Am. et des Indes, pl. xxiv (Merops corniculatus, 
Lath. and Shaw,) and a neighbouring species whose larger tubercle is directed 
towards the front (Mer. monachus, Lath.). These two New-Holland birds are 
neither Horn-bills nor Bee-eaters, for their external toes are not more united 
than those of the most common Passerinz. 
N.B. The Or. regens is the Melliphaga regia of Lewin and the Sericulus chryso- 
cephalus of Swainson. 
The Corbicalae forms the genus Trorrporayncavs of Swainson. 
