yellow-headed troopial. 49 
our bird t!rr\' ve 00u ^ hardly hesitate to believe 
as Buffon’s fi r DC ’ iiS had °“ly a dried skin, and 
size of i,atm-n Ule re P re s ellt:s a nearer approach to the 
not to be imnli" - fi coucu de that Brisson’s estimate is 
saw the bhdP ! 7 r ? led , "P° n - Vieillot, who never 
a ^alf, and r P f n f G - S f length to be six inches and 
eertaiidy belong ! , - t0 llls S eml s Pendulinus, but it 
The male °P S P DUS plains. 
half lono-. Thl°wi"i‘ ead ? d troo P ial is ten inches and a 
e ^actly liU t- ls c ^ ar ^ horn colour, and formed 
are black • the ; • °i . , ^d-winged troopial. The feet 
neck, and’ brent'! es ,’ d f;! £ brown. The whole head, 
and sericeous mwT 6 ” n lhant orange yellow, more vivid 
on the belly • J e , d> ail d terminating' in a point 
the chin.anda wll a ! • ai ' ou " fl the base of the bill, 
the eye, are blaci 6 St P ass i n » from the bill through 
•some feathers of flu. 1 11 remaining parts, excepting 
ooverts, which .. be ~y’ a,| d some of the under tail- 
v . er y slightly tinned at . baSe> are S loss y black, 
rioi- - v b e tt with brownish Some of the exte- 
very slio-htlv tir, a 5 . , ow at base 
' i° r win„.. c y °® dwith brownish. Some 
instituting tw„ are P ure white, with black tips, 
nnng, the la-„ pt , n f y remarkable white spots on the 
Ooverts of the lA form ed by the greater 
Addling covert! Tb P’ * and the waller one by the 
are longest and 'equal ' tCT!' 1 ’ lhir(1 primaries, 
slightly rounded tl. i d le . , ta ‘i ls four inches long, 
n;hat shorter than L 7 • midd ! e being some- 
character Wilson ‘“mediately adjoining. This 
and, as other notable tr cP the red-winged troopial ; 
n 'e must regard them p s are common to botli species, 
rery closely allied snerieJ * t -P ly as congeneric, but as 
f'T'n', however, in colon,- urxlVvf “"'T sulj Senus. They 
s larger, having the bill .- ^“yfion'-headed troopial 
stronger, and the first primary P 4 Claw , s consequently 
and third, or at leastPs y lon S er than the second 
‘I'l.flcr Inn'Pl "1 e'sbt inch., and a 
“ale, and ev tP remai ’kably inferior to that of tile 
vol. "v 6XaCtly corresponding with the difference 
