ORIOLE. 43$ 



Le Cap-more, Buf. oif.'m. p. 226. 21. 



Troupiale male du Senegal, PI. enl. 375. WEEVER 



■ femelle, ■ 376. 



CIZE of the Golden Thrufh, but the wings fhorter in pro- Description., 



portion. The bill horn-colour: irides orange : the head 

 brown, appearing very glofiy in the fun, as if gilded : the colour 

 of the reft of the plumage for the molt part yellow, inclining 

 more or lefs to orange: quills and tail blackifh, edged with 

 r orange : legs reddifti. Another had the head, chin, fides, and 

 fore part of the neck and breaft, yellow 1 back part of the neck 

 brown: wings and tail dulky, edged with yellow: belly and 

 thighs whitifh : legs as in the firft bird. 



Thefe came together from Senegal, and were at firft thought to Placs. 



be male and female-, but after keeping two years, that which was 

 thought to be the female, became of the fame plumage as the 

 'other, by gaining the brown head: but in both birds the head 

 loft its dark colour, and became yellow, every autumn, regaining 

 it in the fpring. 



In the cage where thefe birds were kept, it was obferved, that Manners. 

 they entwined fome of the ftalks of the pimpernel, with which 

 they were fed, in the wires : as this feemed to fhew a difpofition 

 of making a neft, fome rufh-ftalks were put into the cage; on 

 which they presently made a neft large enough to hide one of 

 •them at leaft ; but it was as often deranged as made, the work of 

 one day being fpoiled the next; ferving to fhew that the fabrica- 

 tion of the neft in a ftate of nature was the work of both male 

 and female, and in all probability is finifhed by the laft. They 



•had a fharp but lively note. 



3 K 2 A friend 



