ORIOLE. 



43 * 



margined with grey; but the under part, from the chin to. the 

 belly, between the legs, and the lower wing coverts, red : tail 

 fomewhat ftriated with grey : legs and claws brown. 



Inhabits Guiana. I much fufpedl this to be the female of the 

 lad, or a young bird, as was hinted of the former : the feveral 

 differences in particular birds are kept up as in that fpecies. I 

 have feen fome of thefe with the breaft only red, and in one fpe- 

 eimen the breaft not red, with a few red dafhes on the chin ; but 

 in all I have feen the fhoulders were red. Buffon fuppofes both 

 this and the red-winged Oriole, with all the varieties of both, to 

 be the fame bird. I cannot at prefent affent to it, as I think the 

 make andfhape of the birds feem to differ on comparifon. It is 

 future obfervation alone that muft confirm the matter. 



Place*. 



Le Troupiale rouge d'Antigue, So*. Voy. p. 113, pi. 68* 



CIZE of our Blackbird 



head, neck, back, and thighs, of a vermilion red 



Bill blackiih : irides fire-coloured : 



quills, 



belly, and tail, velvet black : legs blackifh. 

 Inhabits Antigue, in the iile of P'anaj. 



16.- 

 RED 

 O. 



Description, 



Flacj 



Oriolus Mexicanus, Lin. Syftl L p. 162. N" p 8. 



Le Troupiale brim de la Nouvelle Efpagne, Brif. orn. ii. p. 



- a'calotte noire, Buf. oif. iii. p. 222. 



Troupiale jaune a calotte noire de Cayenne, PL enl. 533. 



I0 S 



N° 



1 7« 



17- 



BLACK- 



CROWN£]>- 



O. 



CIZE of a Blackbird :. length eight inches and three quarters. Descriptiono;. 



Bill, yellowifh : the head (crown excepted) throat, neck, 



breaft, belly, fides, under tail coverts,, leffer wing coverts above, 



i. and: 



