ORIOLUS XANTHONOTUS. 
Chinensis of Luin6, and the Couliavan of BulFon ; and, while this is common in most 
parts of India and the Indian Islands, the Oriolus xanthonotus is found solitary in a 
few circumscribed situations in the Island of Java. 
The entire length of our bird is seven inches. In the male, the head and part of 
the neck, the wings and the tail-feathers, excepting a small portion of the inner vane, 
are black, with a slight lyit of sooty brown. The posterior part of the neck above, 
the back, rump, vent, scapulars, and the extremity of the inner vanes of the tail-fea- 
thers, are bright yellow. Two of the intermediate tail-feathers are also black ; on 
the others the yellow colour constitutes a band, which is narrow on the feathers next 
the intermediate ones, and gradually increases in breadth, so as on the outer feathers 
to occupy more than half the vane. A little yellow also shews itself in a narrow 
margin along the outer vane of the quill-feathers : and the plumes of the shoulders, 
the axillae, and the thighs are slightly tinctured with yellow. The lower part of the 
neck, the breast, and abdomen are white, and marked with longitudinal black lines, 
which are formed by a regularly defined black streak occupying the middle of each 
plume, in the direction of the shaft The bill is red or reddish brown, the irides are 
yellow, and the feet dark blue inclining to black. 
In the female, those parts which are black in the male, have a grayish- brown tint, 
inclining to yellow ; the quill and tail feathers are brown, and the latter have the 
extreme portion of the inner vane yellow, and defined as in the male. The rump 
only has a bright yellow colour ; the back and adjoining parts are pale, and partake 
of the grayish-brown tint of the upper parts. The head and neck have the general 
tint of the wings, hut not separated from the yellow plumes of the back by a defined 
line, as in the male. The throat and the neck underneath are whitish, and varie- 
gated with gray ; the breast and abdomen are likewise marked with regular black 
lines. In the addition to the Article Ornithology, of the Encyclopedic, which is 
now published in Paris, the female of our bird is described as Le. Loriot Grivele — 
Oriolus maculatus — with the following character : — Oriolus dilute flavus : gula pec- 
toreque maculatis ; rostro fusco, remigibus rectricibusque nigricante fuscis, his apice 
flavis. The specimen was from the Island of Java, and the author proposes the 
query, whether it be not the female of an unknown species ? 
I found this bird in Blitar, in a district covered with extensive forests : as far as 
I have observed, it never quits the closest shades. Two males only, and one female, 
are contained in the Museum at the India House, 
