ORIOLE BABBLER. 
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colours and nest* are those of the Orioles. The 
minute analysis which is requisite to assign to all 
these resemblances their due weight, and to explain 
them, has not yet been entered upon, and we there- 
fore merely allude to them as explanatory of our 
reasons for not proposing a sub-generic group which 
cannot he demonstrated. We may here observe, 
that we can find no description among the hundreds 
of birds crowded into the Linnsean genus Turdus, 
which will enable us to identify either this or the 
following species as having been previously described. 
The total length of this bird exceeds that of the 
golden oriole on account of its longer tail, hut the 
body is much smaller and its whole proportions more 
gracile. The hill is slender, a little curved, and 
very much resembles that of a Melipkaga ; the 
nostrils also are somewhat lengthened, although their 
structure is that of Crateropus; the upper mandible 
of the hill is entire, the commissure arched, and 
the margins beyond the base inflected. The wings 
are very short, and the tail is much graduated. The 
lateral toes are equal, and the hind one with the 
claw very large. 
The upper plumage is olive-yellow; which extends 
aiso to the flanks, sides of the body, vent, and thighs, 
where it has a more fulvous tinge. The whole of 
the head and the neck, as far down as the breast, is 
deep black ; all the feathers, except those on the 
breast, being edged more or less with silvery white, 
particularly on the ears and upper neck ; and this 
* See Northern Zoology, ii. 
