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AFRICAN GOLDEN ORIOLE. 
Oriolus auratus, Vieillot. 
PLATE I. 
Golden yellow ; stripe beyond the eye and over tlie ears, 
black ; wing-covers and broad margins of the secondary 
and tertial quills, yellow ; bill red. 
Le Loriodor, Le Vaill. Ois. d'Afrique, vi. pi. 260, p. 49 
Oriolus auratus, Vieill. Encyc. Mcth. 6 95. 
Le Vaill ant, who first described this richly co- 
loured Oriole as a native of Southern Africa, remarks 
that it is there only known as a bird of passage, 
arriving at the fruit season and disappearing soon 
after. It is probably, therefore, one of those migra- 
tory species, which, like the grakles already noticed, 
usually reside in Equinoctial Africa and migrate 
southerly during autumn. Our author mentions 
that he had received specimens of the European 
Oriole from Senegal, but seems not to be aware 
that this also is a native of the same country 
although he expressly says that it does not build in 
Southern Africa. Like others of its genus, it only 
inhabits the deepest forests ; and from constantly 
perching upon the tops of the highest trees, is very 
difficult to shoot. 
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