108 ORIOLE. 



Inhabits New-Spain, in the forests, where it makes the nest, and 

 brings up its young 1 : is said not to sing : the flesh is savoury. The 

 three last seem to merit further enquiry. 



19.— RED-WINGED ORIOLE. 



Oriolus phoeniceus, Ind. Orn.\. 178. Lin. Syst.i. 161. Gm. Lin. i. 386. Daud. ii. 



344. Shaio's Zool. vii. 421. Nat. Misc. pi. 341. 

 Icterus pterophceniceus, Bris. ii. 97. Id. 8vo. i. 182. Will. 302. 

 Sturnus niger alis rubentibus, Klein. Av. 64. 



Sturnus praedatorius, Red-winged Starling, Amer. Ornith. pi. 30. f. 12. 

 LeCommandeur, Troupiale a ailes rouges, Biif.nl. 214. PL enl. 402. 

 Acolchichi, Raii Syn. 166. Will. Engl. 291. 

 Red-winged Starling, Catesb. i. t. 13. Gent. Mag. V. 22. t. p. 316. Alb. i. t. 38. 



Du Pratz. ii. 91. Kalm. Trav. t. p. 291. Bartr. Trav. p. 289. 

 Red-winged Oriole, Gen. Syn. ii. 428. Arct. Zool.W. 140. 



SIZE of a Starling ; length nine inches. Bill black ; irides 

 white ; the whole bird deep black and somewhat glossy, except the 

 shoulders of the wings, which are of a fine dull red ; the legs are 

 black. 



The female is seven inches and three-quarters long, and twelve 

 inches and three-quarters broad ; the general colour brown, with 

 every feather having a very pale margin ; beneath lighter, marked 

 with irregular, dusky spots of brown; the sides of the head brownish, 

 margined all round with very pale rufous, or nearly white, especially 

 over the eye, where it appears as a white streak ; chin pale rufous 

 orange. 



The young bird of the first summer is like the female, but more 

 buff-coloured about the throat and breast ; and the margins of the 

 wing feathers broader, and brighter coloured than in the female ; the 

 shoulders of the wings obscurely marked with tawny red. 



Inhabits various parts of America, from Mexico to New York : 

 frequents watery places, and builds in low bushes, in the islands 



