CHESNUT AND BLACK ORIOLE. 4^7 



from which it may be doubted whether it be es- 

 sentially different, and whether it may not be the 

 same bird in a less advanced state of plumage: 

 yet the tail, inclining to cuneiform, seems to indi- 

 cate a real difference. It is said to hang its nest 

 in apple-trees. 



CHESNUT AND BLACK ORIOLE. 



Oriolus castaneus. 0. niger, dorso injimo uropvgio corporeque 



subtus castaneo-ferrugineiSj remigihus secundariis albo margin' 



atis. Lath. ind. orn. 

 Black Oriole, with the lower part of the back, rump, and body 



beneath chesnut-ferruginous, and the secondary quill-feathers 



edged with white. 

 Le Carouge de Cayenne. P/. Enl. 607./. 1 . 

 Chesnut and black Oriole. Lath, syn. 



Length six inches: head, neck, breast, and as 

 far as the middle of the back black: lower part of 

 the back, rump, and upper tail-coverts, belly, and 

 vent dull ferruginous: smaller wing-coverts the 

 same: greater wing-coverts, quills, and tail black, 

 but the secondaries edged with dull white: bill 

 and legs blue-black. This, which by Catesby is 

 supposed to be the female of the Spurious Balti- 

 more, is by Mr. Latham considered as a distinct 

 species. 



