96 ORIOLE. 



rump, vent, and thighs are chestnut; quills black; tail as in the 

 others, the two middle feathers black, the others yellow. In the 

 PI. enlum. the two middle feathers are dusky black, but the exterior 

 of the yellow ones dusky black on the outer web, for three quarters 

 of an inch from the tip ; the two middle in the plate of Naturforscher 

 are dull green, and shorter than the adjoining, which is also seen in 

 the first described. 



Inhabits Cayenne, Brazil, and Guiana, and though greatly 

 similar, is probably distinct ; for, according to Sonnini, it does not 

 associate, or frequent the same haunts. It generally builds on high 

 trees like the others, and the flesh is said to be well flavoured, not 

 having the rank scent of castor, so observable in the first Species. 



5— NEW-HOLLAND ORIOLE. 



THIS is a large Species ; length twenty-two inches. Bill stout, 

 as in the Crow, but pointed at the end, in length two inches and 

 a half, blackish, with a horn-coloured tip, the base for one inch, 

 passing backwards, on the forehead, and rounded as in the Red- 

 rumped Species ; nostrils a narrow slip, covered with a kind of flap; 

 plumage cinereous grey, or pale soot-colour, beneath the same, but 

 paler ; belly and vent nearly white ; the second quills very short, 

 and the eight first are white for three-fourths of the length from the 

 base within. Tail nine inches long, consisting of twelve feathers, in 

 shape rounded at the end, the two middle ones more pointed than 

 the others, and of one colour, the rest white for one inch on the 

 inner webs, but the outer web is white quite to the end ; the quills 

 reach to about the middle of the tail ; legs two inches and a half 

 long, stout, the two middle and outer toes united at the base. 



Inhabits New-Holland. — Mr. Thompson. 



