SMALL BILLED ORIOLE. 37 
the neck, which parts are of the same green as the 
back. 
Total length about 8f inches ; bill, from the 
front, ; ditto, from the gape, 1 ; wings, 4i ; tail, 
from the base, 3| ; tarsus, T v 5 ; hind-toe and claw 
j'jj shorter. 
THE CAPE BLACK-CAPPED ORIOLE. 
Orujlus Capensis, Swains. 
Olive greenish ; beneath yellow ; head and throat black ; 
spurious wings with a white spot ; all the lateral tail- 
feathers black, tipt with yellow, the middle pair green with 
black tips. 
Le Loriot Coudougnan, Lc VaiU. Ois. d'A/r. pi. 261, male. 
262, female Oriolus melauoceplialus, var., Vteill. Encyc. 
Meth. 696. 
Description. — Size of the Golden Oriole; length, 9 h 
inches; bill red, straight, curved only at the tip. 
The only species of the Cape colony -which builds 
there. Had M. Vieillot seen this species, we are 
persuaded he never would have supposed it a variety 
of 0. melanocephalus, merely because the head and 
neck are black. We already know, in fact, of not 
less than four species having the common character 
of a black hood over the head and in front of the 
