Pils ACT OVE: 
GoxpEn Orio.e. Latham.—Pennant.—Brit. Muf.—Lev. Muf. 
GoLpen’ TurusH. Edw. pl. 185. 
YeELLow Birp from Bengal. Albin iii. pl. 19. 
Witwatri. Will. orn. p. 198. 
Le Loriot. ‘Brif, orn. ii. p. 320. Noe 58. 
Buf. Oif. iii. p. 254. pl. 17.—P. enl. 26. the male. 
Widewal, Pyrold, Fri/ch. pl. 31. the male and female.—Kram. el. 
p. 360. 
Galbula, feu Picus nidum fufpendens, Rai. Syn. p. 68. N° 5. 
‘Size of a Blackbird. The body of the female is of a dull greenifh 
colour ; the wings are dufky inclining to green alfo; and the tail is 
nearly of the fame obfcure colour, except the two middle feathers 
which are of a pale yellow. 
_ But the male is evidently one of the moft beautiful birds that has 
ever been difcovered in this ifland: the whole of the body which is a 
dull green in the female, is a lovely golden yellow, inclining to an 
orange colour in the male; the wings are black and form a moft 
firiking contrait; and the black ftripe from the beak to the eye is no 
inconfiderable addition to its beauty. 
It is rarely. met with in England: Pennant obferves in the Britih 
Zoology *, that he only knew one inflance of its being fhot in Great 
Britain, and that in South (Wales : Latham fays “ it is now and then 
met with in England +;’’ and adds, in his Supplement, “ Since the - 
publication of my Symop/is t, this bird has been twice fhot in England. 
One of the {pecimens is now in my colle€tion.” 
« 776, + Lift of the Birds of Creat Britain, Supp. 1 1782. 
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