50 OMNIVORI. ORIOLUS. GOLDEN ORIOLE. 
is suspended by its rim. The golden oriole is the only 
known species in Europe, and is migratory. 
Golden Oriole.—Oriolus Galbula, L220. 
PLATE 35. Fig. 1. and 2. 
Oriolus Galbula, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 160. 1.—Gmel. Syst. p. 362. sp. 1.—Lath. 
Ind. Ornith. v. 1. p. 186. sp. 45. 
Coracias Oriolus, Fauna Suec. No. 95. 
Galbula, Rati, Syn. p. 68. 5. —Will. p. 147. t. 36. 38. 
Oriolus, Briss. 2. p. 320. t. 58.—Id. &vo. 1. p. 247. 
Le Loriot, Buff: Ois. v. 3. p. 254. t. 17.—Jd. Pl. Enl. 26. the male.—Temm. 
Man. d’Ornith. vy. 1. p. 129. 
Gelbe Rache, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. v. 2. p. 1292. 
Gelber Pirol, Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. v. 1. p. 108. 
Witwall, Will. (Ang.) p. 198. 
Yellow Bird from Bengal, Albin. 3. t. 19. 
Golden Thrush, Edw. t. 185. 
Golden Oriole, Br. Zool. App. p. 41. t. 4.—Lewin’s Br. Birds, 2. t. 43.—_ 
Lath. Syn. 2. p. 449. 43.—Id. Supp. p. 89.—Moni. Ornith.-Dict.—Id. Supp. 
—Don. By. Birds. 1. t. 7.—Bewick’s Supp. to Br. Birds. 
Occasional Like the preceding one, this showy bird is but an occa- 
wisitant. sional visitant in Britain. In addition to the instances men- 
tioned by Pennant and Monvracu, of its being taken in 
these kingdoms, two specimens (a male and female) that were 
killed in the neighbourhood of the Pentland Hills, are now in 
the Edinburgh Museum, and furnished the drawings for the 
present work. Another female bird was also taken in a gar- 
den at Tynemouth, in Northumberland, in the spring of the 
Foreign year 1821.—Upon the continent it is of more frequent oc- 
aes currence, and breeds in some parts of France and Italy.—It 
Pood. inhabits woods and thickets, and feeds upon berries, grapes, 
and other fruits, as well as on insects. —The nest 1s formed of 
straw and dried grasses, lined with finer materials and fea- 
thers, artfully suspended by its outer rim to the extreme fork 
of some lofty branch. It lays four or five eggs, white, with 
isolated dark-brown spots. The young are fed with insects, 
&c. and the parents are observed to be particularly assiduous 
in the support, and- bold in the defence of their progeny. 
The singular and well-chosen situation of the nest, indeed, 
Nest, &c. 
argues a superior degree of parental instinct. 
