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Golden Oriole. Brit. Zool. App. p. 4. t. 4. 



Lath. Stjn. 2. p. 449- 43. 

 In Orn. p. 186. 45. 



The Male of the Golden Oriole appeared in one of the earliest 

 Plates of the prefent Work * : the figure now fubmitted to the reader 

 is that of the female, which however rare the male bird, is ftill more 



fo than that fex. The difference in the appearance of the plumage is 



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alfo fo confiderable, that we flatter ourfelves it will be confidered as 

 an acceptable introduction into the prefent volume. 



Since the figure and defcriplion of the male bird appeared, we have 

 had occaiion to record the additional difcovery of a pair of thefe rare 

 birds in Britain ; a circumftance of very unufual occurrence : they were 

 found in Cornwall. This difcovery we announced in the year 18@Sf. 



* Vol. I. 



f In the Monthly Magazine for December, 1809, two of the Golden Oriole are 

 mentioned as having been fhot h> Cornwall. It does not appear very improbable lliofe 

 laft mentioned were the birds we had previoufly recorded. 



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