ORIOLE. 125 



37.— GOLD-HEADED ORIOLE. 



Oriolus chrysocephalus, Ltd. Om. i. 183. Lin. i. 164. Gm. Lin. i. 395. Shaw's 



Zool. vii. 434. 

 Icterus chrysocephalus, Daud. ii. 336. 



Xanthornus icteroceph. Amer. Bris. App. 38. t. 2. f. 2. Id. Svo.'i: 192. 

 Gracula chrysoptera, Merrem Ic. Av. Fasc. i. p. 10. t. 3. 

 Gold-headed Oriole, Gen. Syn. ii. 442. 



LENGTH eight inches. Bill black, a trifle bent ; top of the 

 head, and nape yellow; forehead, sides of the head, neck, back, 

 rump, scapulars, breast, belly, upper part of the thighs, and sides 

 shining black ; lower part of the thighs yellow ; upper and under 

 tail coverts the same, but paler; lesser wing coverts beneath pale 

 yellow, greater ones cinereous, mixed with yellow and black ; above 

 the lesser are fine yellow, the greater blackish ; quills black, with 

 pale edges; tail blackish, rounded; legs lead-colour. 



In the Collection of Lord Seaforth was one, in which the tail was 

 cuneiform, the two middle feathers four inches long, the outer two 

 and a half; in other things conformable to the above description. 

 Brought from the Island of Trinidad. 



38.— WHITE-WINGED ORIOLE— Pl. xlii. 



Oriolus leucopterus, Ind. Om. i. 183. Gm. Lin. i. 392. Shaw's Zool. vii. 433. 



Oriolus melaleucus, Mus. Carls. Fasc. ii. t. 31. „ 



Tangara noir, Buf. iv. 257. PL enl. 179. 2. 



Troupiale des Bois noir a tache blanche, Voy. d'Azara iii. No. 76. 



Guiana Tanager, Gen. Syn. iii. 225. the Male. 



White-backed Maize-thief, Arct. Zool. ii. 141. Kalm. It. ii. 274. 



White-winged Oriole, Gen. Syn. ii. 440. pL in title page, 



SIZE of a Lark ; length seven inches and three quarters. Bill 

 and legs black ; general colour of the plumage glossy black, except 



