5LACK AND YELLOW ORIOLE. 
irHOUGH we have copied Edwards's figure 
f this bird, we have thought it necessary to 
epart from our usual practice of also adopting 
is name : since it seems to us evident, that 
le appellation, which he gives it, of the 
lack and Yellow Daw, is less scientific than 
light have been expected from our favourite 
rnithologist ; the bird being clearly an Oriole, 
nd not a Daw. It is, in fact, the Oriolus 
ersicus, of the Linnsean system ; the Cassicus ^ 
luteus, of Brisson ; the Yapon, or Yellow 
'assique of Brasil, of BufFon ; and the Black 
od Yellow Oriole, of Latham. 
But, notwithstanding we have, for good 
jasons, as we conceive, rejected Edwards's 
ame of this bird, we think it right to extract 
is entire description, 
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^ " The natural siz^,'* says he, " of the 
lack and Yellow Daw of Brasil, is much 
:^GUt that of the Jackdaw, It's wing, when 
losed, is six inches and a quarter lor.g. The 
bill 
