118 ORIOLE. 



first entwined some stalks of pimpernel in the wires, some rush 

 stalks were put into the cage, when they soon formed a nest large 

 enough to hide one of them, but was often deranged from day to 

 day, as if the fabrication of the nest in a state of nature was the 

 work of both sexes, and if so, in all probability finished by the 

 female. 



29— BONANA ORIOLE. 



Oriolus Bonaua, Ind.Otn.i.- 181. Lin. Syst.'i. 102. Gm. Lin.i. 390. Bor. Nat. ii. 



117. Shaic's Zool. vii. 431. 

 Icterus Bonana, Daud. ii. 332. Gabin. tie Madrid, p. 17. lam. 8. 

 Xanthornus, Bris.W. 115. 1. 12. f. 2. Id. Svo. i. 187. 

 Icterus minor nidum suspendensy Sloane's Jam. 299. t. 257. 1. Id. 300. 17. t. 258. 3"". 



Raii Syn. 184. 27. Id. 167. 12. Xochitototi. 

 Turdus minor varius-, Klein. Ac. OS. 13. 

 Le Carouge, Buf. iii. 243. PI. enh 535. 1. 

 Bonana Bird, Gen. Syn.u. 436. Broimu Jam. 477. 



LENGTH seven inches, breadth eleven. Bill black, base of 

 the under jaw grey; head, neck, and breast chestnut ; upper parts 

 of the back velvet black ; the lower, lesser wing coverts, rump, 

 belly, thighs, and under the wings deep orange red ; greater wing 

 coverts, quills, and tail black ; legs grey. The female differs in 

 beiuc- less bright. 



Inhabits Martinico, Jamaica, and other West India Islands. It 

 makes a nest of a curious construction, from fibres and leaves",, i fi- 

 sh ape of the fourth part of a globe, sewed, with great art, to the 

 under part of a Bonana leaf, so that the leaf makes one side of 

 the nest. 



