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JAMACAII ORIOLE. 



Oriolus Jamacaii. 0, flams, capite collo suhtus remigibus rectri- 

 cihusque nigris^ dorso fascia nigra, tectricum macula alba. 

 Lath, inch orn. 



Yellow Oriole, with the head, neck, beneath quill and tail- 

 feathers black, a black bar on the back, and a white spot on 

 the coverts. 



Oriolus Jamacaii. Lin. Gmel. 



Le Carouge du Bresil. Buff. ois. 



Brasilian Oriole. Lath. syn. No. 2/. 



Described by Buffon: length near ten inches: 

 head and fore-part of the neck blacky the rest of 

 the body yellow : between the wings a black mark: 

 wing-coverts black with a white spot in the middle: 

 quills and tail black: bill black with blue base; 

 legs brown: native of Brasil, constructing its nest 

 beneath a Banana-leaf, of fine rushes lined with 

 hair; fastening it by means of long threads, pass- 

 ing across the leaf in different places, to the ribs 

 and edges alternately; the nest resembling a deep 

 pouch sewed to the leaf. In his Synopsis of Birds 

 Mr. Latham names this species the Brasilian 

 Orioky a name which he has also, through over- 

 sight, applied to a much smaller bird of this genus. 



