114 ORIOLE. 



A drawing of this is in the collection of Sir John Anstruther, said 

 to inhabit the Eastern Islands in India ; probably it may not very 

 widely differ from the blue, or last described. 



26— ICTERIC ORIOLE. 



Oriolus Icterus, Ind. Orn. i. 176. Lin. i. 161. Gm. Lin. i. 384. Bris. ii. 86. t. 8. f. 1. 



Id. Svo. i. 178. Shaw's Zool. vii. 420. 

 Icterus vulgaris, Daud. ii. 340. 

 Merula ex nigro-viridescente, &c. Gerin. 3. t. 306. 

 Coracias Xanthornus, Scop. Ann. i. No. 42. 



Pica luteo-nigra varia, Sloan. Jam. 301. t. 259. Raii 81. 10. Klein. Av. 63. 10. 

 Turdus oculis cceruleis, Klein. 69. 20. Id. 70. 33. 

 Guira-tangeima, Raii 45. Will. 97. t. 43. Id. Engl. 141. 

 Troupiale, JS?//. iii. 203. t. 10. PL enl. 532. 

 Yellow and black Pye, Cates. Car. App. t. 5. 

 Bonana Bird, Alb. ii. pi. 40. Brown. Jam. p. 447. 

 Icteric Oriole, Gen. Syn. ii. 424. 



SIZE of a Blackbird ; length nine inches and half. Bill hoary, 

 or black, with a brown base ; skin round the eye naked, and bluish ; 

 irides yellow ; head, and neck before to the breast, middle of the 

 back, great part of the wings, and the tail black ; shoulders, and the 

 rest of the bird golden yellow ; on the wing coverts an oblique bar 

 of white, and a patch of the same on the quills ; legs as the bill. 



In some birds the yellow is much deeper than in others, so as to 

 be completely orange-colour. 



Inhabits Carolina, also Brazil, and all the Caribbee Islands : feeds 

 on insects ; hops like a Magpie, but in its actions very like the 

 Starling ; is ferocious, and will attack birds much larger than itself, 

 for which purpose four or five will unite. In some places kept in 

 houses tame, as it kills insects of all kinds, making them its food ; 

 will often tear up the cases of moths, which are spun up, for the sake 

 of the pupae. The nest is curious, as in many of this Genus, made 

 in the form of a cylinder, and suspended from the end of the outmost 



