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Genus XIV. ORIOLE. 

 K° 46. Yellow-throated O. N" 47. Rudy O, 



. White-headed Oriole, Gen. Syn. ii. p. 422. N" 4. 



WHITE-HEAD- - ■•- 



LENGTH nine inches and a half; breadth thirteen and a 



half; v/eighc an ounce and three quarters. The head white. 



Description, ^^cept a fpot of black on the crown : neck and bread glofly black, 

 fpotted with white : lefler wing coverts the fanne, but more faint : 

 baftard wing fpotced white and black ; the outer quills white : the 

 reft of the bird brownifh black: legs pale flefh-colour. 

 Place. This was brought to Mr. Hutchins, while at Hudjons Bay, by 



the mitne of ff^azvpawchou Cbuckithoti, in the month of July, 1781; 

 faid to refort among other Blackbirds, but not common. I fufpeft 

 it to be a variety of my White-headed Oriole. 



Another fimilar to this is mentioned in the Ar£}ic Zoology *, 

 ■which was about an inch fliorter: head and throat white : ridge 

 of the wing, firft primary, and thighs, the fam'e ; and a few oblong 

 ftrokes of white on the bread : the red of the bird dufky, glofled 

 in parts with green. This likewife is mod probably a fecond va- 

 riety of the White-headed Oriole, being found at Hiidjon's Bay. 



* Hud/onian White-beaded Oriole.— ArS, ZooJ, ii. p. 260. 



Golden 



