ORIOLE. 127 



coverts are white, as also the bastard wing, forming an interrupted 

 streak ; under tail coverts mixed with yellow ; tail even, four inches 

 long ; legs stout, black. 



A specimen of this was in the collection of Mr. Bullock ; it 

 measured more in length than the other, yet agreed in too many 

 points to form a distinct Species. 



40— SCHOMBURGER ORIOLE. 



Oriolus melancholicus, Lid. Orn. i. 184. Lin. i. 163. Gm. Lin. i. 392. Shaw's Zool. 



vii. 43-5. 

 Icterus melancholicus, Daud. ii. 337. 

 Xanthornus nsevius, Br is. ii. 126. Id. 8vo. i. 191. 

 Fringilla ex fusco et nigro varia, Klein. Av. 98. 

 Schomburger Oriole, Gen. Si/n. ii. 441. Edw. pi. 85. 



SIZE of a Lark ; length six inches. Bill flesh-colour ; irides 

 hazel ; general colour of the plumage rufous brown, beneath the 

 same, but paler, each feather marked with a blackish spot in the 

 middle, except on the crown, where it is plain ; lower part of the 

 belly, thighs, and both tail coverts light brown ; scapulars the same, 

 with a tinge of yellow ; cheeks and throat black, narrowing on each 

 side of the neck, and ending in a point on the lower part of it, 

 just above the shoulders ; quills and tail blackish, the feathers edged 

 with rufous ; legs flesh-colour. 



The female is for the most part of a dingy yellow, blended with 

 dirty white, giving an unpleasing uniformity. 



A.— Troupiale tachete de Cayenne, Buf. iii. 123. PI. enl. 448. Gen. Syn. ii. 442. A. 



In this the male has the throat white ; a streak of the same 

 "through the eye, between two other black ones, parallel to it ; irides 



