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THE GOLDEN ORIOLES. GENUS ORIOLUS 
0rl ° lUS > Linn ” Nat, i, p. l6o (I?66) 
1 ype, O. galbula Linn. 
the GOLDEN oriole. ORIOLUS GALBULA. 
(Plate V.) 
Oriolus galbula , Linn S Nr ; ^ , 
Eur, iii,p. 365 (i 8 7 c) • New t ? MV ]Jresse r, B. 
Sharpe, Cat B. Brit 5 t 
List Br. B, p. ?6 ( t 88 t)klu <^ lS 77 ); B. O. U. 
(1883); Saunders, Man^p ft f ?■’ L ’ P- 589 
Fig. Br. B, pt. i x . (1888)’ P ' 37 ^ l8 ^ 9 ) i Lilford, Col. 
Adult Male. — Golden vpllnw . 
speculum caused by the tins oT'uf b ack ’ with a y e,low 
secondaries edged towards the h'n C vi, prit l! ary coverts; the 
black, .be feathers tipped wto X? t yell °.“" sh white i tail 
outermost one, which is yellov/with a Wanf K? t0W f ds the 
red. feet leaden grey, iri/bCkS ToSenath J 7 “ 
eulmen, ro. wing, 5-5, MUj . tarsus, .S. 8 *’ 9 inches; 
Adult Female and Youngr Birds * o 
below greyish white, streaked with black Sf the 16 ^ 0 ^ but 
breast. Ihe statement that the old fnmi ■ tbe . tlroat an <i 
and black like the male has not yet been fuUy'loSed^ 
Range in Great Britain. — Rare visitor to , ' 
and Ireland, and seldom found in Scotland^ t° f £ngland 
migrant to Cornwall and the Scilly Islands in Spring.* regUlar 
Range outside the British Islands. — Breeds thro,,,,!, m 
and below the Baltic, extending to Ub 6 5 i„“l™h # 7 L e 
andin Russia ,0 do- N, Let, 1 st to RtSia “ •?“£ I ^ 
the Altai Mountains. Its place in Central Asia is tl 3 u d 
the Indian Oriole (O. kundoo), a species very like <9 fffbuf 
but having the black coral spot extended beyond th fJt' 
The furthest south-eastern range with which wl arP h ? ye ' 
acquainted is Fao, in the Persian GulJthl^sSS 
