ORIOLE. 135 



52.— GOLDEN ORIOLE. 



Oriolus Galbula, Lid. Orn. i. 186. Lin. i. 160. Gm. Zin. i. 382. Act . Stockh. 1750. 



t. 3. f. 5. Georgi. 165. Sepp. Vog. t. 11. Kram. 360. Bor. Nat. ii. 116. Faun. 



Arag. 72. Bechst. Deut. ii. 478. Id. Ed. ii. p. 1292. Gerin. iii. t. 307, 8, 9. 



Shaw's Zool. vii. 408. pi. 53. Tern. Man. d'Orn. p. 79. Id. Ed. 2. p. 128. 

 Coracias Oriolus, Faun. Suec. No. 95. Scop. Ann. i. 45. Faun. Arab. 7. 

 Turdus aureus, Klein. Av. 66. Id. Ov. t. 9. f. 2. Jd. Ston. t. 14. f. 8. a. 

 Der gelbe Pirol, Goldamsel, Kirschfink, Schmid Vog. p. 50. t. 38. 

 Galbula, Raii 68. Will. 147. t. 36. 38. Id. Engl. 198. (Witwall) 

 Oriolus, Bris.n. 320. Id. 8vo. 217. ffwf. Pnw. i. 491. 

 Widewal, Pyrold, .FracA pi. 31. M & F. 

 Die Golddrossel, Naturf. ix. s. 46. 

 Kirschvogel, Gunth. Nest. V. Ey. t. 47. 

 Oropendola, Gabin d. H. Nat. de Madrid, i. lam. 4. p. 9. 

 II Rigogolo, Get. Uc. Sard. 79. 



Loriot, Buf. iii. 254. pi. 17. PL enl. 26. Voy. en Barb. i. 271. 

 Yellow-bird from Bengal, Albin, iii. pi. 19? 

 Golden Oriole, Golden Thrush, Gen. Syn. ii. 449. Id. Sup. 89. Id. Sup: ii. 126. 



Br. Zool. App. iv. pi. 4. Id. 1812. 303. pi. 39. Lewin's Birds, ii. pi. 43. Nat. 



Misc. pi. 2S5. Ora. Diet. &. 5wp. 



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

 brownish red ; irides red ; plumage chiefly fine golden yellow ; 

 between the bill and eye a streak of black ; wings black, marked 

 here and there with yellow ; on the middle of the wing a patch of 

 yellow ; the two middle tail feathers black, the base of them olive, 

 and the tips yellow ; the others black from the base to the middle, 

 from thence to the tip yellow ; legs lead-colour. 



The female is dull greenish where the male is black ; wings dusky ; 

 tail dirty green, all but ihe two middle feathers yellowish white. 



The young birds resemble the females ; at first are more spotted, 

 but towards the end of August, the yellow begins to appear; they 

 have a different note from the old ones, which is like the words Yo, 

 Yo, Yo, sometimes followed by a mewing like a cat. 



