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ORIOLE. 



bread, belly, fides, thighs, upper and lower tail coverts, and 

 tinder the wings, orange yellow, brighteft on the breaft and tail 

 coverts : lefler wing coverts deep brown ; the greater the fame, 

 tipped with dirty yellowifh white : quills brown, bordered on 

 both edges with whitifh : the two middle tail feathers are olive, 

 then blackifh, marked at the end with a longitudinal yellowifh. 

 fpot ; the next on each fide olive and black, confufedly mixed ; 

 and the four outer ones of a yellowifh olive : legs and claws 

 blueifh. 



A bird of this kind, fhewn to me as a female, had the chin 

 black : the upper part of the body olive brown : on the wings 

 two bars of white, formed by the tips of the coverts : quills 

 edged with whitifh : and the tail dufky : the under parts of the 

 body olive yellow : bill and legs blueifh. I have likewife one of 

 this laft defcribed, which came from North America ; but in my 

 bird the chin was only brown, like the upper parts of the body, 

 and the colours all paler than in the other*. 



There feems to me much confufion and uncertainty in the true 

 and baftard Baltimores and their females ; moft likely at laft they 

 may, the whole of them, turn out mere varieties of one fingle 

 fpecies, all of them, perhaps, referable to one or other fex of the 

 true Baltimore,, in the different flages of life. 



* It very much refembled one figured in the Planches enhmlnees, which is faid 

 to come from the Cape of Good Hope. PL enl. 607. f. 2. 



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