ORIOLE. 139 



nape ; lesser wing coverts yellow ; greater black edged yellow ; quills, 

 chiefly the inner, fringed with white ; tail black, the end for one-third 

 yellow, but the two middle feathers only yellow for a quarter of an 

 inch ; quills reach three-fourths on the tail ; legs black. 

 In the collection of Mr. Bullock. 



B.— Turdus flavus, Ind. Orn. i. 350. Gm. Lin. i. S36. 

 Merle jaune de la Chine, Son. Voy. Ind. ii. 193. 

 Yellow Thrush, Gen. Syn. iii. 63. 



Size of a Blackbird. Bill red ; irides grey ; plumage in general 

 deep yellow, paler beneath ; shafts of the feathers white ; eye sur- 

 rounded with white feathers ; from the upper mandible a band of 

 black, finishing in a point beyond the eye ; legs red. 



Inhabits China. I find in Indian drawings one called Muteh- 

 runga-Parowari : in this the upper parts have a tinge of green, the 

 same streak through the eye ; tail cuneiform ; the two middle feathers 

 yellow, the others black, spotted with white : probably this differs 

 from the last described only in sex. 



55— COCHIN-CHINA ORIOLE. 



Oriolus Chinensis, Ind. Orn. i. p. 188. S. Lin. i. 160. Gm. Lin. i. 383. Gerin. iii. 



320. Shaw's Zool. vii. 412. Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 152. 

 Oriolus Cochinsinensis, Bris. ii. 326. t. 33. 1. Id. 8vo. i. 248. 

 Oropendula atris et aureis varieg. plumis, Ph. Trans, xxiii. 1397. 

 Loriot, Tern. Man. Anal. ii. p. liv. 



Le Couliavan, Buf. iii. 262. I. PI. enl. 570. Gen. Syn. iii. 452. C. 

 Yellow Indian Starling, Edw. pi. 186. 



LENGTH ten inches. Bill yellowish ; general colour of the 

 plumage yellow and black, not unlike the others, but distinguished 

 by having a black mark like a horse-shoe, across the crown, from 



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