ORIOLE. 131 



44.— RUSTY-CROWNED ORIOLE. 



Troupiale a Calotte rousse, Voy. cTAzara, iv. No. 72. 



LENGTH seven inches, breadth ten. Bill stout, three quarters 

 of an inch long, conical from the base, and pointed at the tip, colour 

 pale lead ; the crown and whole top of the head fine ferruginous, in- 

 clining to the colour of Spanish snuff; chin and throat the same ; sides 

 of the head, and all the rest of the plumage fine glossy black ; tail 

 more than two inches long, even at the end, and the quills, when 

 closed, reach to about one-fourth of the length ; legs rather stout, 

 and black. 



Inhabits America. — M. Azara observed six of these together in 

 Paraguay, said to have been met with in the marshes ; one of them 

 taken alive, and kept in a cage, lived for some time, and was fed 

 with bruised maize. — In the collection of Lord Stanley. 



45.— RUFOUS-WINGED ORIOLE. 



Le Troupiale noir, a couvertures des ailes rousses, Voy. d' Azara iv. No. 74. 



LENGTH eight inches, extent ten. Bill stout, sharp-pointed, 

 and black ; plumage wholly black, except a snuff-coloured spot, of 

 half an inch in breadth, on the middle of the wing coverts ; tail 

 cuneiform ; the outer feather eleven lines shorter than the two middle 

 ones; legs black. 



Inhabits South America.— In Paraguay the Guaranis call it 

 Guirahumi, (or Small Blackbird); makes a suspended nest, but 

 neither long nor deep, attached to the end of the branches of the 

 Palm-tree, but so shallow, that the sides scarcely rise above the 

 thick bed of leaves, which serves for the lining ; the eggs are three in 

 number. 



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