COMMON TROUPIAL. 
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Common Troupial, Banana Bird , Albin. Ave. II. tom. 40. 
Common Troupial, Le Troupiale vulgaire , Buffon, PI. Enl. 532. 
10 , 12 *. 
Observed occasionally at and near Charleston, S. C. Common in South 
America. 
Male. 
Total length 10 inches ; alar extent 12f. Bill, a patch of skin around 
the eye and reaching the edge of the upper mandible, as well as the legs 
and feet, blue. Eyes bright yellow, inclining to silvery ; claws black. The 
whole head, neck and upper breast, as well as the back, scapulars, and 
primary quills, jet black, with bluish reflections on the head. Rump, 
upper and lower tail-coverts, as well as the whole under part of the body, 
and a collar around the neck, as well as a patch on the wings, black ; pinion 
of a bright yellowish-orange colour ; tail even and black. The secondary 
coverts largely tipped, and the quills margined with white, forming a very 
conspicuous patch of that colour ; second quill longest. Wing from flexure 
4-J inches ; bill along the ridge 1 V 4 » along the edge rather more than 1^ ; 
tarsus V‘ 5 hind toe its claw £ ; middle toe 1, its claw f. Tarsus and 
feet, as well as the claws, strong and well adapted to their habits. 
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