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of the wings red. It 
black-bird, and inhabits Guiana.and Cayen 
very pleafantly, and awe the notes of other birds. 
e, which is built 
Aven inches in  eircumference and hangs from the branches 
of ae Levee 
RUS 3 " Rice Oriole. Black; head, neck, and 
trea ati a purple fhade. It inhabits Cayenne, and is nine 
inches long. The bill is about a3 inch and a half longs 
i et and protuberant at the 
nus. This is bieriane with black and white ; ; 
the ine neck, belly, and rump are white ;- the wings and 
wedged-tail violet, edged with white. It. inhabits North 
America, principally Louifiana, and is ten inches long. 
The bill is black, and is about an inch long ; the legs are of 
a lead-colour. 
is feven inches long, is lefs than a 
e. It fings 
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3 head white, with a black {pot on the crown. 
ind in Hudfon’s Bay. 2. Blackifh-green; head, chin, 
outer quill-feathers, thighs, and oo on the breaft white. 
This alfo is found in Hudfon’s 
Cristatus; Crefted Oriole. 
the back, rump, and vent chefnut ; 
This:is the wie {pecies yet known, and is a native 
of Surinam. It is about the fize of a magpie, and its length 
is from eighteen to trenty inches. The colour of the male 
is black, with the low 
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ead of a yard long, befides part of it bro of ere 
oadeft, near a foot over, and almoit flat; caroued fro om 
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the colours are plain ie than {plendid or glaring. 
Speen have been feen, perhaps {uch as had not attained 
their full colours, in whic 
lateral ones ello ow; the bill is red. 
long. 
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pached is denfe and ftrong for | a length of fix 
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{pecies, 
inches. The hemorrhous prefers building on fuch trees as 
ae a river or lake re is a variety which is found 
crag and which is of a blackifh-brown colour, with a 
yello 
Persicus; Black and Yellow Oriole. Black ; hind-part 
of the back, *fpot on the wing-coverts, and bafe ‘of the tail- 
It is found in South Am 
hundred toge es 
{mall pale brown {pots. 
hind-part of the back, fpot on the w erts, and outer 
tail-feathers above yellow at the bate al heath half yellow 
and black. 2. Purplifh-black; fpot on the wings yellow,’ 
varied with black. The bill is yellowith; irides blue; legs. 
and claws black. 
* Mexicanus; Black-crowned Oriole. Blackifh; beneath 
and on the head yellow. It inhabits New Spain and 
Cayenne, and is nearly nineteen inches long. The bill, legs, 
and claws blackith; the neck is yellow ; the crown black- 
brown; tail and wings black. 
Ruser; Red Oriole. Vermilion; wings, belly, and 
tail deepeft black. The bill and legs black; irides flame 
colour. This bird is of the fize of a black-bird, and is 
Fane at Antigua, in the ifle of Panay, one of the Philip- 
pines. 
. Gutanensis; Guiana Oriole. Blackifh; edges of the 
feathers grey; breaft and neck beneath red. It inhabits 
Guiana, as its name imports, and is above feven inches long. 
The tail is ftriate with grey; the legs and claws. are: 
brown. 
Fiavus; Antigua Yellow Oriole. Golden ;. hind-part- 
of the back, wings, and tail are black. The bill and. legs 
are black ; che irides are red. It is the fize of a black- bird, 
and, according to Sonnerat, is.a native of Antigu a, in the 
ifle of Panay ; but it is alfo found about, the river Plata, in- 
South America 
Raters: Baltimore Oriole. Blackith beneath-and 
band on the wings tawny. The bill is.of- a lead-colour 5; 
greater wing-coverts black, tipt with white; firft quill-- 
feathers dirty white, edged with white; two. middle. tail- 
feathers black, the reft black on the lower part, and orange: 
cies is pag in many 
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purfe, tying it with threads to the extreme forks of 
twigs of the tulip, plane, and hickory trees. The country 
people call them fire-birds; and indeed, when in high: 
plumage, ind motions from branch to branch not unaptly- 
refemble a of fire. 
aie Baftard Oriole.. Bla ck; beneath tawny 5: 
wings with a white bar. It inhabits North America, is: 
fhorter than the Baltimore oriole; builds a penfile. nett, eo 
lays five eggs. e lower part t of the back and tail-coverts: 
yellow ; quill-feathers greys edged with white ;. tail black: 
wedged. e head an of the female are of an olive 
colour; the chin is b oa wipers and. pale hen. 
preys edged with white ; tail dirty white, edged with yel-. 
low 
ror; Weaver ais This is of. a-yellow colours. 
head brown, with a fhade of golden; quill and tail- feathers. 
blackith, edged with orange It inhabits near ee sere 
