IN JERDON OR STRAY FEATHERS. 387 



455 5/s.— Rubigula melanictera, Gm. 



The entire head, nape and cheeks intense, yet unglossed, 

 black ; remainder of the whole upper surface of the body 

 yellowish olive-green ; margins of the outer webs of all the 

 wing-feathers more or less of the same colom*, the outer edges 

 of the primaries being somewhat yellower ; quills and rectrices 

 hair-brown ; inner margins of all, except the first primary, 

 edged with yellowish-albescent, increasing in extent with every 

 succeeding quill, commencing with the second ; upper surface 

 of the tail brown, as in the quills ; middle rectrices faintly 

 edged with the olive-green of the upper plumage ; external pairs 

 more decidedly so ; under surface of rectrices pale brown, 

 all with white or albescent terminal bands, the middle pair 

 excepted ; entire under surface rich saffron-yellow, purest on 

 the chin, throat, abdomen and under tail and wing-coverts. 

 Wing, 3*75 inches ; tail, 3'25 inches ; iris brown in the female ; 

 bill and feet black ; the upper and under tail-coverts are very 

 much developed ; the first covering fully half the basal portion 

 of the tail, the last extending even further. — Walden, " Ibis" 

 1866, 316. 



470 bis.— Oriolus galbula, Lin. 



Adult Male. — Entire plumage, except the wings and tail, 

 rich golden 3 T ellow ; a broad stripe from the base of the 

 bill to the eye, covering the lores, deep black ; wings jet- 

 black, the quills tipped and externally narrowly margined 

 with yellowish white or sulphur-yellow ; edge of the wing 

 and under wing- coverts rich yellow, the primary coverts 

 being broadly terminated with the same colour ; tail black, 

 broadly terminated with yellow, the outer rectrices being more 

 broadly, and the inner oues less marked with this colour ; the 

 central rectrices black, only narrowly tipped w 7 ith yellow ; bill 

 dull reddish ; iris blood-red ; legs lead grey. Total length 

 about 9-9'5 ; culmen, 0*95 ; wing, 5*9 ; tail, 3*6 ; tarsus, 

 0-85. 



Adult Female.— Differs considerably from the male ; upper 

 parts (excepting the wings) greenish yellow or apple-green ; 

 the patch in front of the eye dull brownish black ; wings 

 as in the male, but duller and browner,, the edgings being 

 pale sulphur-yellow ; secondaries and wing-coverts washed 

 with dull greenish yellow ; tail as in the male, except 

 that the yellow markings are only on the inner webs, the outer 



