42© ORIOLE. 



bottom, for one foot upwards, is hollow, like a purfe j the re- 

 mainder, or upper part of it, for half a foot, being folid; and 

 hangs by the top, on the extremity of a branch of a tree. They 

 often build near houfes ; and on one tree there have been known 

 above four hundred of thefe nefts r and many pairs have been 

 known to hatch and bring up three broods in a year. 



2. Oriolus hsemorrhous, Lin. Sjft. i. p. 161. N° 5. 



+- RED- Le Caffique rouge, Brif. orit. ii. p. 98. N° 13. pi. 8. f. 2. 

 HUMPED du BrefiJj ou k j upubaj Buf Bi j- t ii;> p- 2 3 8._p/. 



enl. 482. 



Description. T ENGTH eleven inches. Bill an inch and a quarter long, of 

 a brimftone-colour, thick at the bafe, and goes far back into 

 the forehead, where it is rounded, and bare of feathers : the ge- 

 neral colour of the plumage is black : the lower part of the back, 

 the rump, upper and lower tail coverts, fine crimfon : the wings 

 and tail dufky black : legs and claws black. 

 Place-. Inhabits Brafil and Cayenne, where it is called Caffique. 



2. 



Var. A. Caffique brun, Qrn, de Salerne, p. 112. 



Description. 



'TpHE whole body, of this is brown, inclining to black : rump 

 and upper part of the tail the colour of wine-lees : under the 

 tail light yellow. 



infects, and all forts of fmall birds, when it can catch them, and alfo their eggs : 

 when it advances, it is by hopping, always flirting its tail. It is bold enough to 

 attack birds of prey, as well as leverets, and other fuch game. De/crip. de Su- 

 rinam, vol. ii. p. 167. 



This 



