ORIOLE. 44| 



Inhabits Madras, and called by the Gentoos, Peach Caye. Placz. 



Buffon will not have this ranked with the Orioles, as the {hape of Obssrvatidfs. 

 the bill is not mentioned ; nor will the country it comes fromj 

 according to his opinion, admit of it, as he thinks that this genus 

 is wholly confined to South America. To balance this, however, 

 it is but right to give the opinion of Pallas, who, no doubt, has 

 obferved it minutely, when he fays it is a true Xanthornus, though 

 the fmalleft of its race *. 



Fermin f mentions a bird not unlike this at Surinam. The 

 bill pointed, black, the length of the finger : head and upper 

 parts blue, to the beginning of the" back : tail black : wings the 

 fame j in the middle a long fpot of white parallel to their length : 

 reft of the body fky blue : legs blueilh. He fays that it fuf- 

 pends the neft at the end of the branches of trees j and it is from 

 this circumftance that I have ventured to place it here. 



Le Troupiale noir, Brif. om. ii. p. 103. N° 15. pi. 10, f. 1. — Buf. oif. iii, 37. 



p. 320.— PI. enl. 534. BLACK 



Br. Muf. 



O. 



CIZEofa Starling: the length more than nine inches. The Male. 



bill is' one inch long, and black : the whole plumage black 

 and glofly : legs black. 



The fetnak is of a greenifli brown: the bill and legs juft as Female. 



in the male : but the head, breaft, and belly, inclining to afh- 

 colour. 



• Contra Xanthornus verus eft, quamvis in fuo gen ere minutiffimus & folo 

 cyaneus, <vigejimut o£Ia<vus BriJ/bnii. Pallas Spic, vi. p. 3. note (a). 

 ■\ Dtfcrip. fit Surinam, vol.ii. p. 171. 



Inhabits 



