GOLDEN ORIOLE. Dae 
throat, breast, and under surface of the body, dull greyish 
_ white, streaked longitudinally with dark brown on the 
shafts of the feathers ; sides of the body and flanks yellow, 
streaked with dark brown; under tail-coverts pure yellow; 
under surface of tail-feathers yellow mixed with dull grey. 
According to Mr. Macgillivray, “‘ the young, in its first 
plumage, is of a dusky yellowish grey tint above, each 
feather having the central part greyish brown; the lower 
parts yellowish white, each feather with a central brown 
line ; the sides and lower tail-coverts bright yellow; the 
wings and tail brown, marked with yellow, as in the adult. 
The male is easily distinguished from the female by its 
lighter colour.” The irides are brown; the beak dark 
grey. 
After the first moult, the young resemble old females. 
In the Rey. Dr. Thackeray’s British killed specimen, 
which had not attained the truly adult male livery, the 
upper surface of the body is tinged with wine yellow: the 
secapulars and a few feathers on the centre of the back 
streaked with black; the wings not so decidedly black : 
the spurious wing-feathers are slightly tipped with greyish 
white, not bright yellow, on the distal half of their length, 
as in the old male first described ; the quill-feathers with 
narrow lighter-coloured outer margins and tips: the -fea- 
thers of the tail have the proximal two-thirds black, the 
rest yellow: under surface of the body yellow, tinged with 
green, and still retaining faint indications of darker streaks 
in the direction of the shafts of the feathers. 
Mr. Hoy agrees with me in considering that the male 
does not obtain its brilliant yellow and black plumage until 
the third year. This gentleman in one of his letters states, 
‘some pairs are observed breeding, in which you can 
scarcely distinguish male from female; others still further 
