ORIOLE. 



I'sAeEi Inhabits North America. At Capt. Dawes's J faw one of thefe, 



which at firft fight appeared of a different fpecies. The plumage 

 a brownifh glofiy black, but each feather margined with ferruginous 

 brown, the quills and tail excepted, which were of a plain black 

 colour. I have obferved likewife a fecond of thefe, in the Britijh 

 Mufettm, which was placed with the two others firft defcribed, in 

 one cafe, as a young bird ; and it is rnoft likely a . male, as the 

 ground colour is black, which, had it been a female, would have 

 partaken more of a brown colour. 



T PS*? PR ^ e P et ' c Troupiale noir, Buf. off. Hi. p. 421. 



JLACK Troupialede la Caroline, Pl.eirl. 606. f. 1. the female-? 



O. 



Pescription. T> ET WEEN fix and feven inches long. Bill black : the whole 

 plumage is likewife of a fine glofiy black throughout^ but 

 about the head tinged with blue. 

 Female. The female has the head and neck not of fo deep a black as the 



reft of the body, tinged with blue on the wings. and tail, which is 

 even at the ends. 

 Pi,acs. This is according to Buffon, who gives it as a non-defcript 



fpecies; obferves that it is found in America, and foon grows 

 tame. 



That figured in the Planches, enluminks as a female, has the 

 head and neck cinereous brown. We have the name of a brown- 

 headed Oriole in the catalogue of North American animals, as si 

 new fpecies ; and I have this very bird in my poffefiion, but was 

 led to fuppofe it a male, having feen at Capt. Davies's one of the 

 fame, with what was efteemed the female, in the fame cafe. This 

 was wholly of a duiky afh-colour, paleft beneath : chin and throat 



white ; 



