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BIEDS OF BEITISH BURMAH. 
all the feathers tipped with bright yellow, as in the male, and all but the 
central feathers with the centre portion more or less dark brown. 
The young are like the adult female. The male acquires the full plumage 
slowly and at the last stage the back is spotted, and the rump margined, 
with black. 
Some specimens of this species, either adult females or immature birds, 
have most of the feathers of the wings and coverts tipped and margined 
with chestnut. This, perhaps, indicates very young birds. 
The legs and feet are plumbeous blue or very dark plumbeous, the bill 
very dark fleshy or pale fleshy brown ; the irides crimson. {Davison.) 
Length 8 inches, tail 2*8, wing 4'4, tarsus "8, bill from gape I'l. The 
female is smaller. 
The Small Black -headed Oriole occurs in the extreme south of Tenas- 
serim, where it was procured by Mr. Davison, but it was rare there. 
It extends down the Malay peninsula and occurs in Sumatra, Java and 
Borneo and probably, according to the Marquis of Tweeddale (/. c), in the 
Philippine Islands. 
This Oriole is a forest bird, and. its habits, as observed by Mr. Davison, 
do not appear to differ in any particular from the preceding species. 
210. OEIOLUS TEAILLI. 
THE MAROON ORIOLE. 
Pastor traillii, Vig. P. Z. S. 1831, p. 175. Analcipus traillii, Swains. Class. B. 
ii. p. 222. Psaropholus traillii, Jard. ^ Sel. III. Orn. iv. pi. 26 ; Bl. ^ Wald. 
B. Burm. p. 139. Oriolus traillii, Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 112 ; Sharps, Cat. 
Birds B. Mus. ill. p. 222 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 99 ; Sculhj, S. F. viii. p. 299. 
Description. — Male and female. The whole head, neck, chin and throat 
black ; the wings and under wing-coverts with the tips of some of the 
scapulars glossy black ; remainder of plumage with the tail bright shining 
, maroon-red, the tail not so bright as the other parts. 
The young have the crown and nape dark brown; the back, rump, 
scapulars and wing-coverts dark brown, each feather edged with rufous ; 
the upper tail-coverts maroon-red, with black shafts ; the tail maroon-red ; 
the greater part of the central feathers and the edges of the outer webs of 
the other feathers brown ; lower plumage white, streaked with brown ; 
under tail-coverts pale maroon ; wings brown. As the bird grows older 
the head becomes black, the upper plumage loses the rufous fringes and 
turns gradually to maroon, the under plumage becomes tinged with red 
and the streaks disappear, and the adult plumage is assumed by a series of 
slow changes. 
