ORIOLE. 



449 



an Oriolus and a Thrufh, partaking of both, which makes Buffon 

 place it before the Thrnjha, to which he feems to think it moft 

 allied, 



This-was received from China* 



P&ACE. 



Qriolus Galbula, Lin. Syft. i. p. 160. N° j. 



Coracias Oriolus, Scop. Ann. i. p. 41. N° 45.— Faun. Arab, p. 7. 



Le Loriot, Brif. orn. ii. p. 320. N° $%.—Buf. oif. iii. p. 254. pi. 17. 



iV. enl. 26. *A« ««/?. 

 Widewal, Pyrold, Fri/cb. pi. 31. male and female. — Kram. el. p. 360. 

 Galbula, feu Picus nidum fufpendens, Rati Syn. p. 68. N° 5. 

 Witwall, Will. orn. p. 198. 

 Yellow Bird from Bengal, Albin. iii. pi. 19. 

 Golden Thrufli, Ed<w. pi. 185. 

 Oriole, Br. Zool. afp. N° 4. pi. 4. 



£?•. A&/ iro. Muf. 



43- 



GOLDEN 



O. 



CIZE of a Blackbird : length nine inches and a half. The bill Description* 





is brownifh red, and above an inch long : irides red : general 

 colour of the plumage a fine golden yellow: between the bill and 

 eye a ftreak of black : the wings black, marked here and there 

 with yellow, and a patch of yellow in the middle of the wing : 

 the two middle tail feathers black, inclining to olive at the bafe, 

 and the very tips yellow; all the others black, from the bafe to 

 the middle ; from thence to the tip yellow : legs lead-colour • 

 claws black. 



The female is of a dull greenifh brown in thofe parts where the 

 male is black : wings dufky : tail dirty green, and all but the 

 two middle feathers yellowiih white. 



This beautiful lpecies is pretty common in feveral parts of 



3 M Europe; 



Female. 



Places and 



Manners.- 



