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ORIOLUS GALBULA. 
GOLDEN ORIOLE. 
Pale yellow; lores and limbs black; 
outer tail-feathers on the hind part yellow. 
Linnaeus describes five varieties of this 
species. 
Oriolus Galbula, Lin. Gme. 
Le Loriot, BufFon. 
Golden Thrush, Edwards. 
Golden Oriole, Pen. Lath. Mont, Shaw. 
provincial. ' 
GOLDEN THRUSH, WITWALL. 
The length of this species is about nine 
inches and a half, and breadth sixteen. 
The female differs considerably from the 
male in the colours of its plumage. Those 
parts which are black in the male, are, in 
the female of a dull greenish brown; wings 
dusky; tail dirty green, and all but the 
two middle feathers vellowish white. It 
is remarkable for constructing its nest 
upon a different principle from those of 
