THE BLACK-NAPED ORIOLE. 
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to the words be quick, be quick/^ repeated fast, and with the accent on 
the word quick/^ 
Capt. Bingham found the nest in Tenasserim in April. It was a shallow 
cup-shaped structure, made of twigs and moss, placed in a small tree. It 
contained two eggs, which were greenish white marked with brown. 
Family ORIOLIDiE. 
Genus ORIOLUS, Linn, 
206. ORIOLUS INDICUS. 
THE BLACK-NAPED ORIOLE. 
Oriolus indicus, Jerd. III. Ind. Orn, pi. 15 ; id. B. Ind. ii. p. 109 ; Salvad. Ucc. Born. 
p. 275 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 132 ; Bl. ^ Wald. B. Burm. p. 139 j Hume ^- Bav. 
S. F. vi. p. 329 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 99. Oriolus diffusus, Sharpe, Cat. Birds 
B. Mus. iii. p. 197 ; Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 355. Oriolus cochinchinensis, 
apud David et Oust. Ois. Chitie, p. 132. 
Description. — Male. Lores and a streak over the eye widening to a band 
three quarters of an inch wide on the nape black ; the whole remaining 
plumage bright yellow ; central pair of tail-feathers black with narrow 
yellow tips ; the others progressively more tipped with yellow towards the 
outer pair, which is tipped to the extent of an inch and a half ; primaries 
black, tipped and edged narrowly with yellowish white; the secondaries 
more broadly edged with the same ; tertiaries with the whole outer webs 
and a portion of the inner webs next the shaft yellow ; winglet black ; 
primary-coverts black, tipped with yellow to the extent of '4 inch ; upper 
wing-coverts bright yellow, the inner webs of the greater coverts being black. 
The female is like the male, except that the back is tinged with yellow. 
Young birds, when quite young, have the upper plumage greenish, with 
brown shafts ; the horseshoe mark on the head is barely indicated ; with 
the exception of the sides of the neck, the flanks and the under tail-coverts 
(which are always yellow), the whole lower plumage is whitish broadly 
streaked with black ; the wings are dark brown, the yellow of the adult 
being replaced by dull greenish ; the tail is greenish, with dull yellow tips 
to the inner webs only, not so extensive as in the adult. 
As the bird gets older the white of the lower parts changes to yellow, 
and the streaks become narrower ; the upper plumage becomes yellow and 
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