BIRDS. is-Oriolus. 23H 
15. ORIOLUS. Bill conic, convex, very 
fharp and ftfaight; upper mandible 
a little longer, (lightly notched : tongue 
bifid, (harp-pointed: formed for 
walking. Oriole, 
■The birds of this genus are gregarious, noify, numevous, vora- 
cious, and great devourets of corn ; they chielly inhabit 
America, and often build pendulous irefts. 
Bale yellow ; lores and limbs black ; outer tail-feathers 
on the hind-part yellow. Golden O. 
Inhabits Europe, AJiazn^ Africa; 9I inches long; is migra- 
tory ; feeds on cherries, berries |and infefts ; builds an urce- 
olate nell of leaves in the branches of trees, and lays 4 — ,5 
' dirty -white eggs with fmall dufky-brown fpots ; flelh good ; 
voice fharp. 
Bill and irids red ; legs plumbeous. 
Female dufky brownifh-green 3 lateral tail-feathers yellowlfli- 
' white. ^ 
2. Head and tips of the middle tail-feathers black. 
2. Yellow variegated with blackilh fpots; head, neck, quiil 
and tail-feathers blackifh. 
4. Limbs black with yellow tips ; head with a black band. 
Inhabits Cochinchina. ^ . 
5. Head with a tranfverfe blue band ; tail-feathers ycliow 
with a blue bar; quill-feathers yellow fpotted with 
blue. 
Inhabits India. 
’^^^atus. Tawny ; head, chin and throat black dotted with white. 
Striped-headed O. 
Size of a blackbird ; body beneath pale ; legs yellow ; claw 
reddifh. 
**’**■'• Tawny; head, neck and breaft fpotted with white; tail 
rounded. Climbing O. 
Inhabits among trees in Guiana, which it climbs like a pie and 
picks out infefls from under the bark ; 7 inches long. 
Bill yellowilh-grey ; colour of the bdly inclining to brown , 
legs blackilh,. v 
Id crus. 
