43° 



ORIOLE. 



14. 



RED- ' 

 SREASTED 

 O. 



Troupialede Cayenne, PL enh 236. N° 2. — Buf. oif. iii. p. 218. 

 Merula Indica pe&ore cinnabarino, an Jacafu Marcg. ? Rati Syn. p. 67, 



N° 10. 

 Red-breafted Indian Blackbird, Will.orn. p. 194. N°.f. 

 Mocking-bird of Guiana, Bancroft 's Guiana, p. 177. 



Lev. Muf. 



■Description. 



Place and 

 Manners. 



T ESS than a Blackbird : length feven inches. The colour 

 wholly black, except the chin, fore part of the neck, and the 

 breaft, which are of a fine deep red : the upper edge of the wing 

 is alfo red. 



This is found in Guiana and Cayenne. 



Bancroft's bird had the top of the head likewife red; and the 

 bill of his was flefh-colour; yet I make no doubt of its being a 

 variety of the above-defcribed. The nefts of thefe are built of 

 hay, Sec. and are cylindrical, being twelve or fifteen inches in 

 circumference. They are feen depending from the high branches 

 of the talleft trees, and are wafted to and fro by the wind ; on 

 which account their great length is neceffary, that the bird may 

 not be thrown out by every guft of wind, which would otherwife 

 happen. Their note is fweet and harmonious; but they imitate 

 thofe of many other birds. 



.GUIANA 

 O. 



Description. 



O.riolus Guianenfis, 'Lin, Sjjl. i. p. 162. N° 9 ? 



Le Tropiale de la Guiane, Brif. otn. ii. p. 107. N° r8. pi. 11. f. 1. — Buf. 

 'oif. iii. p. zi8. — Pl.-enl. 536. 



(pIZE of a Thrulh : length feven inches and a quarter. The bill 

 brownifh.: general colour of the plumage black; each feather 



margined 



