4-4 O R 1 O L E, 



6. Oriolus i&erus, Lin. Syft.l. p. 161. N° 4. — Scop.ann, 1. p. 39. N°40. 



^ Coracias Xanthornus, Scop. ann. i. p. 39. N° 42. 



Le Troupiale, Brif. orn. ii. p. 86. pi. 8. f. 1. — Buf. oif. iii. p. 203. pi. i6„ 



' — PL enl. 532. 



Guira-tangeima Braf. Rail Syn. p. 45. N°6. — J77i7. or«. p. 141. 



Yellow and black Pie, Rail Syn. p. 181. N° 10.— Sloan. Jam. p. 301. 



t. 259. f. 4. — Catejb. Carol, app. pi. 5. 



Yellow Woodpecker, Sloan. Jam. 



Banana bird from Jamaica, Albin. ii. pi. 40. — Large D°, Brown. Jam. 



4+7 • 



Lev. Muf. 



Description. CIZE of a Blackbird s length nine inches and a half. The bill 

 in fome is hoary, in others black, with a brown bafe: fkin 

 round the eyes naked and blueifh : irides yellowilh : general co- 

 lour of the plumage orange yellow: head, throat, lower part of 

 the neck, and middle of the back, fine black : wings black : with 

 two oblique bands of white : tail black: legs in fome black, in 

 others of a lead-colour, and fometimes greyilh white. 



Place and This fpecies is found in Carolina; from thence to Brafil, and in 



Manners. , .... 



all the Caribbee Iflands. In Jamaica, Sloane tells us, it is common ; 



and that it feeds on infects, and has the fame cuftora in hopping 



about as the Magpie. Albin mentions, that its actions referable 



a Starling. " I have feen," fays he, cc four or five of them fet 



upon, and kill, a large bird or fowl -, and when dead, each one, 



according to his place of mafterfhip, choofe his part." Kept in 



America in houfes, to kill infects. In its wild ftate very agile and 



wrathful, and fo bold as to attack men : will find out and deflroy 



chryfalids already fpun up; into which it thrufts its bill, and 



tearing open the cafes, takes out the chryfalis ; but I am told is 



very docile when kept tame. 



But 



