ORIOLE.* 



In fome of thefe which I received from Jamaica, the greater 

 wing coverts were wholly white, forming a bar of white acrofs 

 the wing, and the yellow of the body inclining to olive. 



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Place.4 



Oriolus Dominicenfis, Lin. Syft. i. p. 163. N° 14. 26. 



Le Carouge de St. Domingue, Brif. orn. ii. p. 121. N° 25. pi. 12. £. 3.— ST. DOMINGO 

 Buf. oif. iii. p. 247.— PL enl. v. N° 2. °* 



ENGTH eight inches. General colour black, except a part Description. 

 of the leffer wing coverts, and the lower part of the belly 

 and vent, which are yellow. 



Buffon thinks this bird to be the female of the laft." 



Thefe inhabit Mexico, Jamaica, and St. Domingo : at this laft Plage. 



place they are called Demoifelles ; at Jamaica, lefler Bonana-birds. 

 Their note is much like that of the golden 'Thrujh, with the fharp- 

 nefs of that of a Magpie. Like many of this genus, they fufpend 

 their nefts, which are in the form of purfes, at the extreme twigs 

 of the branches of large trees, efpecially thofe which hang over a. 

 river. In thefe nefts there are fmall partitions, in each of which 

 there is a neft. 



The birds are faid to be very artful, and difficult to be 

 taken.. 



Le Carouge duBrefil, Brif. em. ii. p. 120. N° 24.— Buf. oif. iii. p. 249. 

 Jamacaii, Rati Syn. p. 75. — Will. orn. p. 237, pi. 42. — Salem, orn. p. 22.1.- 

 N° 4. pi. 16. f. 5. 



T ENGTH nine inches and three quarters. Bill black 5 bafe 



blue : head, and fore part of the neck, black : the reft of the 



s body 



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Descriptions. 



