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GOLDEN ORIOLE. 
OnroLus, Linn . — Generic characters. — Bill 
straight, hooked at the tip, distinctly notched, 
depressed and rather wide at the base, rictus 
with very fine bristles ; wings with third 
quill longest, first two graduated ; tarsus 
short, feet rather weak, toes united at the 
base. — Oriolus Gallnila. 
Europe, Asia, Africa. 
Oriolus binder. 
TOE GOLDEN ORIOLE. 
Oriolus galbula. — Linn. 
PLATE IV. 
Oriolus galbula, Linn. — Golden Thrush, Golden Oriole 
of British ornithologists. 
The Golden, or European Oriole, to which a 
much more extensive geographical range has 
been assigned than what really belongs to it, is 
the only species which has any claim to a place 
in the British Fauna, and that is only in the cha- 
