S2 BIRDS. PICE. 6-9. 



the ridge of the wing, lower-part of the quills and 

 rump rich blue: upper-part and tips of the quills 

 dusky. 



Roller. Br. Zool. app. t. 2. Lewin t. 41. F)onov. t. 33. 



Length 12 inches and a half: size of* the jay. 

 Bill dusky, with briftles at the hafe, not covering the nostrils : Ms 

 light hazel : orbits rather bare of feathers : coverts on the ridge of 

 the wing rich blue, beneath them pale green • tail forked, light 

 blue, the outer-feathers ftriped with black above, beneath with deep 

 blue ; the reft dull green : legs dirty-yellow : claws blackish. 



6. ORIOLUS. Oriole. 



45. O. Galbula Golden yellow : lores black : wings 

 black with a yellow patch in the middle : tail black, 

 the outer-feathers yellow on the lower half. 



Golden Oriole. Br. Zool. app. t. 4. lewin. t. 42. Donovan. 1. 7. 



Length 9 inches and a half : fize of the black-bird. 

 Bill brownish-red : iris red : wings with yellow marks near the 

 back ; 2 middle tail-feathers black, inclining to olive at the bale, 

 tipt.with yellow : legs lead-*colour : claws black. 



Female dull green-brown where the male is yellow : wings dusky: 

 tail dirty-green, whitish at the ends, except the 2 middle-feathers. 



7. CUGULUS. Cuckow. 



46. C. canorus. Brownish-grey : neck and breast whitish 

 with transverse undulate blackish streaks : tail round- 

 ed, blackish ; the outer feathers spotted with white. 



Common Cuckow. Br, Zool. t. 36. Lezvin t. 44. Donovan t. 41. 



Length 14 inches :. extent 25 inches : weight 5 ounces. 



Bill yellow with a dusky tip : iris yellow : margins of the eyelids, 

 gape, and palate faffron-red : wings reaching nearly to the end of the 

 tail; the feathers dusky, with oval white fpots on the inner-wel&s; 

 tail of 10 very unequal feathers, the 2 middle-ones blackish, all Efpt 

 with white : legs very short, yellow : claws dusky. 



Female with the neck and breast tawny-brown, with dusky bars: 

 wing-coverts with pale rusty fpots. Young 62'rd, brown, the feathers 

 edged with white. 



8. YUNX. Wryneck.. 



47. Torqidlla. Yunx. 



Wryneck. Lewin t. 51. Donovan t. 83. Walcot t. 44. 



Lengthy inches : extent \ 1 inches: weight 10 drachms. 



Bill pale lead colour : tongue 2 inches and a quarter long, mifsile, 

 cylindrical : iris light hazel : top of the head and back divided by a 

 list of black and ferruginous strokes : upper part of the head and . 

 neck, back, rump; and upper tail-ceverts cinereous, with dusky tranf- 

 verfe undulate lines : chin and forepart of the neck yellowish-white, 

 with tranfverfe dusky lines : lower-part of the breast belly, and sides 

 whitish, with triangular dusky fpots : wing-coverts dull rufous^ with 

 grey fpots: greater quills dusky, with quadrangular ferruginous 

 i'pots on the outer-webs: tail rounded, cinereous, with 4 dusky bars: 

 legs brown : claws dusky. 



9. PXCUS.. Woodpecker. 



48. P. martlus. Black, the crown of the head rich scarlet. 



Great black Wood-pecker. Lewin t. 45. Donovan t. 13. Walcot t. 45. 



Length 17 inches and a half : size of a jackdaw. 



Bill dark-grey, whitish on the sides : iris pale yellow : tail-fea- 

 thers pointed, the 2 middle-ones longer : legs lead colour, covered 

 en the fore-part with feathers half their length : claws black. 



Fmale rusty-brown, the hind part of the he-ad only fcarleU . 



