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belly, vent, and under tail coverts, are dull ferruginous : the 

 lefler wing coverts are of this laft colour : the greater coverts s 

 quills, and tail, are black; but the fecondaries are fringed onthe 

 ' outer edge with dufky white : the legs are blue black. 



I have had my doubts whether this bird was at all allied to 

 •either the true or bafiard Baltimore; though Catejby affirms it of 

 the laft, and Briffon fuppofes it of the firft j and rather am inclined 

 to think it a diftincl fpecies, for more reafons than one. The 

 whole bird is lefs than either of them, and fhorter : and bill 

 ■fomewhat different likewife. I am ftrengthened in this fuppofi- 

 tion, from feeing in the Britijb Mufeum a bird called the other fex 

 of this, and placed as fuch in the fame cafe. This exactly corre- 

 iponds in fize and fhape, bill and legs. The head and hind part 

 of the neck variegated with dufky and greenifh : chin and throat 

 black : the breafb cheftnut red : the belly yellowifh : quills and 

 tail dufky with pale edges. Two of the above-defcribed were 

 likewife fent lately to Capt. Davies, for male and female of the 

 fame fpecies. 



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Oriolus Xanthorus, Lin. Syji. i. p. 162. N° 13. 



Le Carouge du Mexique, Brif. orn. ii. p. 11S. N° 23. pf. 11. f. 2. — PL 



enl. 5. f. 1. 

 Le petit Cul jaune de Cayenne, Buf. cif. iii. p. 247. 

 Lefler Bonana Bird, Etku. pi. 243. 



T ENGTH feverr inches and a half. Bill blackifh : face even 

 with the eyes i throat, quills, and tail, black : the reft of the 

 body of a bright yellow : wing coverts black ; mofr. of them 

 edged with white, as are the quills within } towards the bafe : 

 ■legs and claws black. 



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