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BRITISH BIRDS. 
THE GOLDEN THRUSH, 
OR GOLDEN ORIOLE, LATHAM, AND GOLDEN THRUSH, 
EDWARDS. 
( Oriolus Golbula , Lin . — Le Loriot , Buff.) 
“ The bill of this genus is straight, conic, and very 
sharp pointed, edges cultrated, and inclining inwards ; 
mandibles of equal length ; nostrils small, placed at 
the base of the bill, and partly covered ; tongue divided 
at the end; toes, three forward and one backward; 
the middle joined near the base to the outermost one. 
These birds are a noisy, gregarious, frugivorous, gra- 
nivorous, and voracious race, very numerous, and 
often have pensile nests.” Latham notices forty-five 
distinct species, which are spread over the warmer cli- 
mates of America, Asia, and Europe; they live on 
figs, grapes, and cherries, and also upon insects. 
The Golden Thrush is about the size and shape of 
fche Blackbird, but its bill is somewhat larger and 
