ORIOLE. 



But the moft curious part of their hiftory is the neft, which is 

 made in the form of a cylinder, and fufpended to the end of the 

 utmoft twig of a tree, of which one fometimes fees a great many 

 on one tree, and that not far from the houfes. This precaution, no 

 doubt, is to prevent the rapine of fnakes, and other animals, which 

 would otherwife deftroy the young birds. 



4*5 



Nest. 



Le Troupiale du Mexique, Brif. orn. ii. p. 88. N° 2. 



L'Acolchi de Seba, Buf. oif. iii. p. 206. 



Avis Americana de Acolchichi nigro lutea, Seba, vol. i. t. 54. f. 4. 



MEXICAN 

 O. 



CIZE of the kit. The bill is pretty long, and of a yellow co- Description* 



lour : the head, throat, quills, and tail, are black : neck, 

 back, rump, breaft, belly, fides, thighs, and both tail coverts, of 

 a fine yellow : letter wing coverts black ; the greater tipped with 

 yellow. 



Inhabits Mexico. Place. 



Le Troupiale a queue annelee, Brif. orn. ii. p. 8g. N 6 3. 



L'Arc-en-queue, Buf. oif. iii. p. 207. 



Avis Ocotzinitzcan, Columba? magn. Seba, vol. i. 97. pi. 63. £.3. 



RING-TAILED 

 O. 



CIZE of a Pigeon. Bill yellow, a trifle bent at the point : Description. 



head, throat, and neck, black j the reft of the body yellow, 

 ihaded with a deeper yellow both on the upper and lower tail and 

 lefier wing coverts : greater wing coverts and quills blackifii, 

 edged with pale yellow : the tail yellow ; each feather marked 

 with a broad tranfverfe blackifh band, making, when the tail is 



3 1 fpread 



