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the species in his Birds of Africa, vol. iii. p. 46. pi. 107 (Paris 
1802), under the name of Le Cudor, stating that it was dis- 
covered on the banks of the Groot-vis, a river of the Caffre country : 
little more is yet known respecting it. A figure, taken from the 
specimen here noticed, has appeared in the 2nd edition of Yar- 
relFs British Birds, and in the Supplementary part to the 1st 
edition of the same work. 
Mr. E. Ball of Dublin informed me in October, 1845, that 
three birds of a very nearly allied species, brought from Palestine 
— and called Palestine Nightingales — had been obtained for the 
aviary of the Zoological Garden, Phoenix Park. They were more 
of a slate-colour than the species under consideration. 
GOLDEN OEIOLE. 
Oriolus galbula , Linn f 
This beautiful species — unlike a native of our clime — is 
but an occasional summer visitant. 
A bird described to Mr. E. Ball to have been the size of a thrush, 
and in colour, bright-yellow and black, frequented a garden be- 
tween Middleton and Castlemartyr (county of Cork),* for some 
months in the summer of 1817 (?) : he had no doubt of its having 
been a golden oriole. In the 1st volume of the Zoological Jour- 
nal (p. 590), one of these birds stated to have been shot in 
the county of Wexford, in May, 1823, is said to be preserved 
in the Museum of the Eoyal Dublin Society. In the Eauna of 
Cork (1845), we are told that "one was sent to the Institution 
in 1823 by Lord Bantry this is, I presume, the same individual 
that Mr. Eichard Dowdeii told me in 1838, had been sent some 
years before that period to the Institution alluded to. It came 
under his notice in a fresh state ; and had been shot at Lord 
Bantry* s seat, near the town of Bantry, in the county of Cork. 
On the 11th of May, 1824, a female of this species was shot by 
a gentleman of my acquaintance near Donaghadee, in the county 
This is the specimen alluded to in the Fauna of Cork as from Castlemartyr. 
