ORIOLE. Ill 



few oblong streaks of white on the breast ; the rest of the bird dusky, 

 glossed in parts with green. 



Found at Hudson's Bay, with the former, and there can be little 

 doubt of both being Varieties of the White-headed Oriole. 



21— PARA ORIOLE. 



LENGTH ten inches. Bill near one inch and a quarter, sharp, 

 and black ; from the nostrils a large, bare, dark-coloured space 

 surrounds the eye, and continues behind, for some distance ; another 

 of the same on each side of the throat, on the sides of the under jaw ; 

 head, neck, and beneath fine golden yellow; lesser wing coverts, 

 and under the wing the same ; the rest of the wing, back, and tail, 

 fine glossy deep black ; tail rounded in shape, five inches and a half 

 long, the wings, when closed, reach to about the middle of it ; the 

 thigh feathers cover the joint before; legs black; claws hooked. 



A second was one inch shorter. Bill one inch ; round the eye, 

 and on the jaw bare, but the under part of the bill, and the bare 

 parts are pale; the head, neck, wing coverts, and all beneath as in 

 the other, but the colours less deep ; it differs, too, in having the 

 back of the head, from the middle of the crown to the nape, black ; 

 the plumage, which is black in the other, inclines to brown, and 

 the margins of the feathers dull yellow brown ; legs pale. 



These birds are in the collection of Lord Stanley, and came from 

 Para, in South America; they seem much allied to the Black- 

 crowned or following Species, if not the same ; but the bare cheeks 

 are not mentioned in the description of that bird, nor is any such 

 character observable in the PI. enluminees. 



