94 ORIOLE. 



3— CRESTED ORIOLE. 



Oriolus cristatus, Ind. Orn.i. 174. Gm. Lin. i. 387. Daud. ii. 326. Shaw's Zool. 



vii. 414. 

 Xanthornus rnaximus, Pall. Spic.\\. 3. t. 1. 

 L'Yapu proprement dit, Voy. d'Azara, iii. No. 57. 

 Troupiale, Tern, itfan. Ed. ii. Anal. p. liv. 

 Cassique huppe de Cayenne, Buf. iii. 241. PI. enl. 344. 

 Crested Oriole, Gen. Syn. ii. 421. 



SIZE of a Magpie; length eighteen inches and a half. Bill 

 strong, two inches long, dirty yellow, bare, somewhat gibbous, and 

 rounded at the base ; nostrils in a furrow ; tongue jagged ; irides 

 blue; head crested ; head, neck, and body, to the middle, black; 

 beyond this, the rump, and vent, deep chestnut ; wings black ; tail 

 eight inches long, the two middle feathers brownish black, and 

 seven-eighths of an inch shorter than the next on each side, but the 

 shape is cuneiform, for the outer one is only five inches and a half 

 long ; all but the two middle feathers are yellow ; legs black. 



Inhabits Cayenne, and other warmer parts of America. One, in 

 the collection of Mr. M'Leay, received from Berbice, was called 

 Boeke roe roe. The female is crested as well as the male ; it lives 

 equally on fruits and insects, but particularly on a sort of Grenadilla;* 

 also another plant, called by the Creoles, Grains cols jaunes ; when 

 the bird eats the latter, the excrement becomes yellow ; found for the 

 most part in pairs or single, though sometimes in flocks of 100, perch- 

 ing on the tops of trees ; the nest in the shape of a purse, three feet 

 in length, and ten inches broad at the lower end, which is hemispheri- 

 cal, the entrance at top, the bottom furnished within with a thick bed of 

 dry leaves, and hung from the ends of branches, sometimes six hanging 

 on the same tree; it is constructed of fine strips of the Caraguata,f 



* Passiflora lauriflora. f Tillandsia, as before mentioned under the first Species. 



