358 COMMON TROUPIAL. 



Common Trodpial, Banana Bird, Albin. Ave. II. torn. 40. 

 Common Trodpial, Le Troupiale vulgaire, Buffbn, PI. Enl. 532. 



10, 12|. 



Observed occasionally at and near Charleston, S. C. Common in South 

 America. 



Male. 



Total length 10 inches; alar extent 12f. Bill, a patch of skin around the 

 eye and reaching the edge of the upper mandible, as well as the legs and feet, 

 blue. Eyes bright yellow, inclining to silvery; claws black. The whole 

 head, neck and upper breast, as well as the back, scapulars and primary 

 quills, jet black, with bluish reflections on the head. Rump, upper and 

 lower tail-coverts, as well as the whole under part of the body, and a collar 

 around the neck, as well as a patch on the wings, black; pinion of a bright yel- 

 lowish-orange colour; tail even and black. The secondary coverts largely 

 tipped, and the quills margined with white, forming a very conspicuous 

 patch of that colour; second quill longest. Wing from flexure 4^- inches; bill 

 along the ridge 1 ^-*, along the edge rather more than 14; tarsus ^; hind toe 

 ^, its claw ^; middle toe 1, its claw -f. Tarsus and feet, as well as the claws, 

 strong and well adapted to their habits. 



