Orioles. 



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Karen hills very closely resembles the Malabar bird ; the colour of the males 

 is however perhaps a shade lighter, approaching more nearly to /. cyaneaJ] 



Fam. Oriolidsa. 



Orioles. 



*481. PsAROPHOLUS TEAILLII (J. 474). 

 Pastor trailliiy Vigors ; Gould, B. As. pt. xxiii. pi. 5. 



Arakan, Tenasserim. A mountain species, inhabiting the more elevated 

 forests. In Hainan and Formosa it is represented by P. ardens, Swinhoe, as 

 in Java by 0. sanguinolentus, Tern. 



[Tonghoo, Karen hills, Karen nee [W. JR.). Swainson's generic title, 

 Analcipus, has precedence. The oldest title for the Javan species is cruentus, 

 "Wagler.] 



*482. Oeioltjs mela^ocephalus (J. 472). 

 Loriot de la Chine, P.E. 79. 



Arakan, Tenasserim provinces, Malayan peninsula. 

 [Tonghoo, Yey-tho, Thayet Myo, Karen nee (W. P.).] 



*483. 0. indicts (J. 471). 



0. indicus, Jerdon, 111. Orn. pi. 15. 



Arakan, Tenasserim, China, Java. The Couliavan of Buffon, P. E. 

 570, upon which is founded 0. chinensis, L., does not represent this species, 

 but 0. acrorhynchus, Vigors, which appears to be peculiar to the Philippines. 



[Eangoon (TV. JR.). The Eangoon individuals, all in perfect plumage, 

 cannot be separated from China examples. They must therefore take the 

 title of 0. chinensis. The title of 0. hippocrepis, "Wagler, cannot be used 

 for any species of Oriole, as it was applied to Indian, China, Cochinchina, 

 Javan, and Sumatran examples generally, and, moreover, included the Philip- 

 pine 0. acrorhynchus. D'Aubenton's plate, above alluded to (P. E. 570), the 

 subject of which may have been described by Montbeillard, not Buffon (Hist. 

 Nat. Ois. iii. p. 262), certainly agrees best with 0. acrorhynchus, "Vigors. But 

 Linnaeus founded no title on it* Montbeillard identified, by reference, his 

 Coulavan with Brisson's 0. cochinsinensis, described from individuals obtained 

 in Cochinchina by Poivre, and brought by him to Reaumur. On Brisson's 

 species 0. chinensis, Lin., was founded, but the description in the "Ornitho- 

 logia" applies better to the Chinese bird than to the Philippine.] 



