ORIOLIDA. 145 
THE GOLDEN ORIOLE. 
ORIOLUS GALBULA, Linnzus. 
This handsome bird is an annual spring-migrant to Cornwall 
and the Scilly Islands, where as many as forty have been seen in 
a single April, and it is an irregular but not infrequent visitor to 
the southern and eastern counties of England ; while nests have 
been found—or the birds seen under circumstances which left little 
doubt that they were breeding—in Norfolk, Essex, Hertfordshire, 
Northamptonshire, Surrey, and especially in Kent. The most 
authentic instances have been at Dumpton Park, Isle of Thanet, where 
a pair of birds, protected by the proprietor, Mr. Bankes Tomlin, 
reared a brood (Harting, ‘Our Summer Migrants,’ p. 268) in 1874, 
and again in 1875. As a rule, however, the bright plumage of this 
bird attracts the attention of the destroyer, and the species is thus 
prevented from nesting with us annually, as it would otherwise do ; 
for migrants generally return to the localities in which they were 
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