ORIOLE. 4*9 



Jupujuba, feu Japu, Braf. Rail Syn. p. 46. N a 7, 1. 



Brafilian Jupujuba, or Japu of Marcgrave, Will. cm. p. 142, Var. A. 



'T^HIS feems not to differ materially from the laft, except in Description. 



"*■ the tail, the whole of which is black on the upper part, ex- 

 cept the outer feather, which is yellow at the bafe ; but beneath 

 half yellow, half black: the irides of a fapphire-colour : and the 

 tongue blue. 



Black and yellow Daw of Brafil, Ediv. p. 319. 1. 



Var.B. 



^TpHIS feems a trifle bigger : has a purplifh luftre in the Description. 



*' black plumage : and has fome of the yellow feathers, which 



compofe the fpot on the wings, tipped with black; 



Thefe birds are met with in Brafil and Cayenne, and the warmer Place and 



parts of South America ; and are the fabricators of thofe curious 



nefts, met with in the cabinets of the curious. Thefe are in the 



fhape of an alembic, about one foot and a half in length, com- 



pofed.of dry grafs and horfe-hair, or hogs briftles, mixed*: the 



bottom, 



Manners. 



* Thefe nefts are in part compofed of what is called old-man 1 s-leard, which 

 is common in the fouth parts of America, and the Weft-India IJlands, and which, 

 at firft view, may eafily be miftaken for horfe-hair ; and is the Tillandjia 

 ufneoides. Lin. 



The above bird may poifibly prove to be the Petite Pie of Fermin; but he 



gives no defcription of it, further than that its colours are prettily diverfified, 



and yellow from the middle of the back to the rump. He fays, that it eafily 



learns to .talk a number of .words, and ordinarily makes the neft on the tops of 



-tiiigh trees, laying at each time fix or eight eggs, fpotted with black : lives on 



3 H 2 infefis, 



