RED-BKEASTED OKIOLE. 



Oriolas Americanus. 0. niger, gula jugido pedoreque ruberri' 



mis, margine alarum rubro. Lath. ind. orn. 

 Black Oriole, with deep-red chin, throat, and breast, and th^ 



juncture or border of the wings red. 

 Red-breasted Indian Blackbird. Will, orn, 

 Troupiale de Cayenne. Buff, ois, PI, Enl. 236. f. 2, 

 Bed-breasted Oriole. Lath, syn. 



Smaller than a Blackbird, measuring about 

 seven inches in length. Native of Guiana and 

 Cayenne, where it builds among the smaller 

 branches of tall trees, forming a long pensile nest 

 of a cylindrical shape, and twelve or fifteen inches 

 in circumference: it is composed of dried grasses. 

 This species is said to have a very sweet note, and 

 to imitate that of many other birds. 



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GUIANA ORIOLE. 



Oriolus Guianensis. Lin. Size of a Thrush; 

 plumage black, each feather margined with grey: 

 under parts, from the chin to the belly, and con- 

 tinuing between the legs to the vent^ red: bill, 

 legs, and claws brown. Perhaps no other than a 

 sexual difference of the Red-breasted Oriole, or in 

 a less advanced state of plumage. Native of Gui- 

 ana. This species is so much allied in appearance 

 to the Tanagra militaris of Linnaeus as to make it 

 doubtful whether it may not in reality be the same 

 bird. 



