ORIOLE. 91 



These birds are for the most part inhabitants of America ; are a 

 noisy, gregarious, frugivorous, granivorous, and voracious race, very 

 numerous, and often have pensile nests. 



Several are comprised in this Genus as Orioles, although inhabit- 

 ing the Old Continent, from the similarity of bill, &c. and some from 

 New-Holland, which, in our opinion, could not well be brought 

 under any other Genus. 



The Golden Oriole, with all its branchings, is well known to 

 inhabit only the Old Continent, and although called by some authors 

 a Thrush, by others a Grakle, and again supposed to approach to 

 the Chatterer as well as the Oriole, it might seem doubtful where 

 to place it. In this case, the manners will assist in forming a situa- 

 tion ; and its making a pensile nest like other Orioles, determined our 

 predecessor, Linnaeus, to add it to that Genus, and we of course 

 cannot do better than to follow the opinon of so distinguished a 

 naturalist. 



1— BLACK AND YELLOW ORIOLE. 



Oriolus Persicus, Ind.Orn.i. 173. Lin.i. 161. Gm. Lin. i. 388. Borowsck. ii. 1 17. 



Daud. ii. 327. pi. 24. 

 Oriolus Cassicus, Shaw's Zool. vii. 413. 

 Tanagra albirostris, Ind. Orn. i. 430. Lin. i. 315, 12 & 18. Mus. Adolp. ii. 31. Gm. 



Lin. i. 894. 

 Cassicus luteus, Bris. ii. 100 t. 9. f. 1. Id. 8vo. i. 183. 

 Pica Persica Aldr, Raii 424. Will. p. 90. 



Jupujuba, Raii 46. Will. 98. t. 23. Id. Engl. 142. Spalowsck. Vog. ii. t. 18. 

 L'Yapu noir et jaune, Voy. d'Azara. iii. No. 59. 

 Le Cassique jaune, Buf. iii. 235. PI. enl. 184. 

 White-billed Tanager, Gen. Syn. iii. 241. 

 Black and yellow Oriole, Gen. Syn. iii. 418.. Id. A. 419. 



LARGER than a Blackbird ; length eleven or twelve inches ; 

 extent of wings seventeen inches. Bill sixteen lines long, pale 



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