43? ORIOLE. 



' A friend' of mine defcribed a bird to me, which he faw at- a? 

 houfe of an acquaintance, which feemed to be this very bird. By 

 accident having got a bit of fewing filk, it wove it among the 

 wires of the cage; on which, more being put to it, it interlaced the- 

 whole very confufedly, fo as to hinder moft part of that fide of the 

 cage from being feen through. It was found to prefer green and 

 yellow to any other coloured filk, 



2Z. Oriolus Bonana, Lint Syji, i. p. 162. N° 12. 



BONANA L e Carouge, Brif. orn. ii. p. 115. N° 22. pi. 12. f. Z.—Buf. olj. iiL 



p. 243.— PL ezl.535. f. 1. 

 Xochitototl altera, Raii Syti. p. 167. N° 12 ? 

 Bonana Bird, Brown. Jam. p. 477. 



Lev. Muf. 



Description. T ENGTH feven inches. Bill ten lines long, and black; bafe 

 of the lower mandible grey : the head, neck, and breaft, 

 cheftnut : upper part of the back -velvet black ; lower part, 

 rump, belly, thighs, and under the wings, a deep orange red.: 

 vent the fame, tipped with cheftnut : greater wing coverts, quills, 

 and tail, black : legs and claws grey. 

 Femals. The female differs in being lefs bright. 



Place, Thefe birds are found" in Martinico, Jamaica, and other Weft 



India ijlands. It builds a neft of a curious conftruction, made of fi- 

 bres and leaves, exaftly in the fhape of the fourth part of a globe, . 

 fewed with great art under a leaf of a banana plant, in fuch a man-r 

 ner that the leaf makes one fide to the neft. 



Ifterus- 



