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CATALOGUE. 
Oriolus aureus, apud Jerd., Madr. Journ. X. p. 261. 
Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. XI. p. 797. 
The Indian Golden Oriole. 
Mango-bird of the English residents in India, Jerd. 
Peebeck:, Hind., Jerd. 
Pawseh, Mahrattas, Sylces. 
A. B. C. 6?. ? , jun. Dukhun. Presented by Colonel 
Sykes. 
e.f. adult et jun. Kumaon. From Captain R. Stra- 
chey's Collection. 
" This bird, so very common in the Indian peninsula, and which 
extends up to the N. "W. Himalaya, occurs also in the hilly parts of 
Bengal, as Eajmahl and Monghir, and at Midnapore ; but in the 
vicinity of Calcutta I have never met with it, nor seen specimens in 
any Collection from the countries eastward." — (Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. 
Xy. p. 49.) 
" In the Dukhun, it is very abundant just before the rains. It is 
a quarrelsome bird."— (Sykes, P. Z. S. (1832), p. 87.) 
" In the Carnatic, it is most abundant, I think, during the cold 
weather, disappearing or nearly so during the hot months. This 
corresponds with the period of their greatest abundance in the 
Dukhun. It is most numerous in the West Coast, and well-wooded 
situations ; frequents topes, gardens, avenues, and large single trees. 
It feeds on various fruit, especially the fig of the banian-tree, and 
also soft-bodied insects. It is not met with in thick forest jungle. 
Its flight is undulating. It has a loud mellow, plaintive cry, some- 
thing resembling pee-ho. I once found the nest of this species ; it 
consisted of a cup-shaped nest, slightly made with fine grass and 
roots, and suspended from a rather high branch by a few long fibres 
of the same material apparently as the nest itself; these did not 
surround the nest, but only supported it on two sides. It con- 
tained three eggs, white, spotted chiefly at the larger end with large 
purplish blotches." — (Jerd., 111. Ind. Orn.) 
419. OBIOLUS TBAILLII, Vigors Sp. 
Pastor Traillii, Vigors, P. Z. S. (1831), p. 175. Gould, 
Cat. of Birds, t. 35. 
Oriolus Traillii, Kodgs., J. A. S. Beng. V. p. 772 ; Cat. 
B. of Nep. p. 87. McClell, P. Z. S. (1839), 
p. 160. Blgth, J. A. S. Beng. XI. pp. 192, 797 ; 
