APPENDIX IV. 
Iv 
present species appears to rank very near the doubtful barbet of Latham, 
from which however it is clearly distinct. It is but little above seven inches 
in length, the female rather less. The bill is of a blackish horn-colour, about 
nine eighths of an inch from the gape to the tip, and about three quarters of 
an inch in thickness at the base ; it has two notches in the edge of the upper 
mandible, and a sort of indentation in the lower mandible, as if to receive 
the foreuiost notch, but there is no appearance whatever of any channel on 
the bill as in Bucco dubius. The general colour of the plumage of the body, 
above and below, as also of the tail, is black ; but the whole face taking in 
the front, part of the crown, beyond the eyes, ears, and as far as the breast, 
covered with narrow feathers of a sharp bristly nature, and of a bright red 
colour ; the wings are dusky, the lesser coverts margined with dirty white 
on the outer web, and the quills with yellowish green, except towards the 
tips of the primaries ; the under wing coverts, and the inner margins of the 
quills towards the base are white ; the legs and claws are dark. 
No. 11. Oriolus Galbula, Var. 
Size rather above that of a blackbird : length something under nine 
inches ; bill of a reddish brown, an inch and a quarter long. Plumage of 
the head and neck, the whole body, the lesser wing coverts, and the tail 
with the exception of the four middle feathers, of a fine golden yellow : all 
the feathers of the wing are more or less deeply margined on the exterior 
web, as well as tipped with yellow of which there is a patch in the middle 
of the wing. The two middle feathers of the tail are black, with the ex- 
treme tips yellow; the next on each side is still more deeply tipped, and 
also margined on both w^ebs with yellow ; the rest have the base of their 
shafts black. Legs dusky, perhaps lead colour ; claws dark. The prin- 
cipal difference of this bird from that in the Gen. Syn.Vol. I. p. 449, appears 
to be, that in this every feather is marked with yellow, while in Doctor 
Latham's bird, this only occurs " here and there; ' the tail is also very 
different, though the general character of the bird, and the disposition of 
its plumage sufficiently point it out as a variety only of the galbula ; but 
that bird surely belongs to the thrush, rather than to the Oriole genus ? 
